On-Demand Guidance for Holding Harassment-Free Meetings

This training provides the knowledge and skills to ensure harassment-free meeting environments and provides ACS Divisions, Local Sections, and others that are organizing and operating ACS-affiliated events with guidance for identifying and mitigating harassment, including sexual harassment. Participants will review how to prevent incidents of assault and battery or harmful and offensive conduct and achieve a positive and safe environment for all attendees while avoiding claims of slander, defamation of character, or civil rights-based claims by actors.

• 3-Pronged Approach to address harassment at meetings
• Alternatives to the approach and more guidance on certain aspects, 
• Defining harassment 
• Official statements 

After this training, participants will:

1. Recognize harassment and take action to deter it.
2. Construct a way to address harassment using a three-pronged approach.
3. Consider employing the ACS Guidance on harassment or alternative policy statements relative to volunteer conduct at meetings.
4. Review useful actions that individuals can take if they are subjected to or witness others engaging in harassing behavior.
5. Create and deploy a process to receive complaints, investigate, and address harassing behavior that threatens a safe and professional environment.
6. Be aware that resources are available to assist volunteers when implementing a harassment policy.

This course is ideal for ACS members, volunteers, and those in governance positions at ACS.