2026 PRESENTATION TOPICS:
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Violence Prevention
Healthy Dating Online
Dating today is increasingly shaped by technology, from dating apps and social media to AI tools that help students start, manage, or even script romantic interactions. While these platforms can make connection easier, they also introduce new risks and dynamics students aren't always taught to navigate.
In this session, we explore how dating apps and AI interrelate to influence modern dating, including AI "wingman" apps, AI-mediated conversations, and evolving catfishing and romance scams. We cover practical dating-app safety tips and discuss how to build authenticity, communication, and consent when technology plays an active role in students' relationships.
Healthy Relationships Online
Relationships and intimacy have gone digital, and core values like consent, empathy, boundaries, and reciprocity are consistently treated differently online. This represents a gap that traditional healthy-relationships programming wasn't designed to address.
This session reimagines healthy-relationships education for an increasingly digital student body, covering these foundational topics in ways that are relatable to modern relationships. Prevention educators and peer-education programs leave with engaging discussion questions, conversation starters, and calls to action that students can put to use immediately in their digital lives.
Healthy Breakups Online
Breakups have always been hard, but ending a relationship today involves a whole new set of risks thanks to shared accounts, passwords, and location data among them.
This session explores actionable, safe, and healthy ways for students to disentangle their digital lives in a hyperconnected world, and how to resolve conflicts unique to online environments. We also highlight practical strategies for setting boundaries around shared intimate images, navigating harassment on social media, and safety-planning around rejection violence, stalking, and abuse.
Tech-Facilitated Sexual Violence
Image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) has become a common form of sexual violence reported on campus, and one of the hardest for staff to respond to. This session helps anyone working on campus identify, prevent, and respond to IBSA like nonconsensual image sharing, cyberflashing, and sextortion while applying practical, survivor-centered strategies.
We also examine how AI is transforming the way images are created, altered, and distributed, dramatically increasing both the scale and complexity of the harm students encounter. Participants leave with a clearer understanding of legal and Title IX considerations, harm-reduction and safety-planning approaches, and trauma-informed skills to support student survivors.
Tech-Facilitated Relationship Violence
Dating and intimate-partner abuse among students increasingly manifests through digital means, with technology commonly used for surveillance, coercive control, and ongoing harm even after a relationship ends. This session examines the most common forms of tech-facilitated abuse staff encounter on campus including unauthorized account access, location tracking, stalking, and digital harassment.
We demonstrate how AI tools have intensified these familiar harms by making abuse easier to commit and harder to detect. Participants leave with practical, trauma-informed strategies to help students protect their privacy, secure their digital presence, and reduce risk while prioritizing autonomy and safety.
The AI Landscape
Online Bystander Intervention
Bystander intervention is one of the most effective prevention strategies on campus, but it doesn't always translate to online spaces, where staff and students must navigate unique biases, power dynamics, and abusive behaviors.
This session equips students and peer educators with practical, effective bystander-intervention strategies tailored for digital life, so the prevention culture you've built in person extends to students’ online experiences.
Relationships & Communication in the AI Age
AI has reshaped how students date, communicate, and navigate relationships. This session examines the growing role of AI in dating apps, texting, and decision-making, including students' use of AI for advice and conflict navigation.
We explore how outsourcing emotional processing to AI can affect communication skills, relational development, and expectations of partners. Participants leave with practical strategies to address these shifts in education and prevention programming, helping students build emotional intelligence, maintain agency, and foster healthy, reciprocal relationships in an AI-integrated world.
Masculinity in the Age of AI
Digital culture, communities and spaces have powerfully shaped how young men understand relationships, masculinity, and belonging. This session unpacks the role AI is playing in this environment, focussing on how AI girlfriend apps, AI "wingmen," and AI image generation can reinforce harmful norms, escalate risk-taking, or normalize entitlement and coercive behavior.
Using a trauma-informed, harm-reduction lens, we explore practical ways to support young men in making healthy choices around AI, challenge harmful narratives without shame, and engage them as partners in building safer campus communities.
Mental Health in the Age of AI
As access to campus mental health care strains against rising demand, more students are turning to AI tools for emotional support, therapy-style conversations, and coping strategies. Here we demonstrate why these tools are appealing, where they may offer benefits, and how they are reshaping help-seeking behaviors among students.
Using a nonjudgmental lens, we examine key risk areas like AI sycophancy, bias reinforcement, emotional over-reliance, and the inability of AI systems to respond safely in crisis. Counseling center staff, wellness teams, and educators leave better equipped to support students in making informed choices about mental health care while centering human connection and appropriate clinical support.
Violence Response
AI Companions and Artificial Intimacy
AI companion apps and chatbots are available to students 24/7 for emotional support, intimacy, and romantic connection. This session explores how these apps simulate relationships and let users explore romantic and sexual fantasies.
Grounded in real-world case studies and emerging research, we break down how these dynamics reshape students' expectations of relationships, reinforce harmful norms, and contribute to emotional dependency. Participants leave with current and practical strategies to recognize risks, support students using these apps, and promote healthy relationship frameworks that prioritize mutuality, consent, and human connection.
Emerging Issues in Student Digital Safety
As technologies and AI evolve, we can expect new forms of harm to continually reshape campus safety, relationships, and student well-being. This session demystifies emerging threats like AI-generated images, facial recognition–enabled stalking, Agentic harassment and evolving forms of catfishing.
Participants leave with practical, prevention-focused strategies to recognize these risks, respond effectively, and foster safer campus and community environments in an increasingly AI world.
Catfishing, Romance, and Sextortion Scams
Students are spending more time online than ever before, which makes them especially vulnerable to manipulative scams that exploit trust, intimacy, and identity. Romance and sextortion scams targeting young adults thrive in this environment. Easily accessible AI tools have only made scams more believable.
In this session, we focus on modern scam tactics: how they unfold, which students are at heightened risk, and the emotional and academic toll these scams take. We discuss how campus professionals can help students recognize red flags, avoid common scams, and help prevent future harm through education and skill building.