YIS: Your Intervention Strategies represent bystander options to make a difference in our community.
“YIS Moments” are actions that help create a safe and welcoming community, such as:
- Supporting a friend through a hard time.
- Transforming our community through collective action, like advocating for policy change.
- Educating a friend when they say or do something harmful.
- Leading a direct response to prevent a violent situation from occurring.
- Empowering others to make a difference.
In honor of the Center for Women & Community’s (CWC) 50th Anniversary, CWC was delighted to launch the YIS Scholarship in the 2022 - 2023 Academic Year. The CWC YIS Scholarship asks students to share a time they stepped in as a bystander to help our UMass Amherst community.
Stay tuned for the 2023-2024 academic year scholarship application, which will be open to current undergraduate UMass students of any major who will still be enrolled Fall 2024.
Applications will open in February 2024.
Follow CWC on social media to be reminded when the application drops.
