Husky Prevention & Response (HPR) is a foundational, required online prevention and response course about sex- and gender-based violence, harassment, and discrimination for staff, faculty, other academic personnel, and student employees.
At the University of Washington, we remain committed to fostering environments where you feel valued and supported and have the opportunity to learn and grow. As a UW employee, you also have an important role to play in ensuring a respectful environment for your coworkers and for students.
Throughout this online course, the strategies offered are meant to create and support positive UW climates and endeavor to stop sex- and gender-based violence, harassment, and discrimination before they happen. The course is relevant to all UW workplace and campus locations and includes tailored content based on your employee role.
After completing the HPR course, employees will have an enhanced ability to:
- Contribute to respectful work and learning environments.
- Recognize sex- and gender-based violence, harassment, and discrimination.
- Intervene in situations where harm may be occurring.
- Respond empathetically when a person discloses they have experienced harassment, violence or discrimination.
- Understand resources, reporting processes, and UW policies on sex- and gender-based violence, harassment, and discrimination.
Husky Prevention & Response employee course
Employee course completion expectations
Employees include all staff, faculty, other academic personnel, and student employees. Completion of the HPR course is required for:
- New employees who must complete the course within 30 days of their hire date.
- Former student employees who previously completed the student employee track but are subsequently hired into a staff or faculty role. These individuals are reassigned to the full employee course in the track relevant to their new role and are required to complete it within 30 days of their new hire date.
Course FAQs
Click the Husky Prevention & Response employee course link to be directed to the online course. You must use your UW NetID to sign in to the course platform.
If you are a new employee, you can access the course on your second day of employment.
If you are a returning employee who needs to complete the HPR course, we strongly recommend you wait until after your official hire date to begin the course. Completion records may not be retained if you complete the course before your new hire date.
If you are experiencing any challenges accessing the course, please email tixcourse@uw.edu.This email is monitored Monday through Friday, 8 am-5 pm. We will attempt to respond within two business days.
It takes about 60 minutes to complete all the modules. The course is self-paced, so completion time varies. You can complete one module at a time, and the program will save your progress. You can then return to complete additional modules at a future time.
The course was built to be trauma-informed, but it may bring up strong emotions for individuals who have experienced violence or harassment or recently supported someone impacted by violence or harassment.
To learn about alternative course completion options, contact tixcourse@uw.edu. You do not need to share personal details when you send an email inquiring about the alternative course option.
If you would like to seek support related to sex- and gender-based violence or harassment before completing the course, learn about options at Sexual Misconduct & Sex-Based Discrimination.
The course has four unique tracks. There is a staff, faculty and additional academic personnel, clinical healthcare, and student employee track. Employees are automatically tracked based on the unit where they work and their employee type. Each track contains unique, tailored content and role-specific scenarios.
As of July 2022, the student employee track was abbreviated and now takes approximately 20-30 minutes to complete. The abbreviated student employee course presumes students have completed the student version of the HPR course and provides additional, relevant information for students now operating in an employment context.
In August 2019, the University of Washington’s Title IX Steering Committee charged a working committee to develop university-wide courses on the prevention of and response to sex- and gender-based misconduct. This course was developed by and for students, staff, faculty, and other academic personnel at the UW. It went through an extensive review with stakeholders across all UW locations.
To learn more about the 2019 TItle IX Training & Education Working Committee charge and a previous committee report that informed this project, please review:
- Title IX Training and Education Working Committee charge
- Title IX Education and Outreach Work Group report
The Title IX Training & Education Working Committee members who developed these courses included:
- Co-Chair: Kiana Swearingen, Office of the Title IX Coordinator, UW Tri-Campus
- Co-Chair: Elizabeth Wilmerding, Violence Prevention & Advocacy Program, UW Bothell
- Erin O’Connell, Athletics, UW Seattle (Title IX Steering Committee Liaison)
- Deanna Blanchfield, Human Resources, UW Tacoma
- Erin Casey, Professor, UW Tacoma
- Michelle Cabrera, Associate Professor, UW School of Medicine
- Lisa Hanna, Campus Operations/Human Resources, UW Tri-Campus
- Lauren Lichty, Associate Professor, UW Bothell
- Jon Payne, Human Resources, UW Medicine
- Jessica Rashid, Student Life, UW Seattle
- Jaye Sablan, Core Programs, UW Seattle Graduate School
- Paige Sechrest, SafeCampus, UW Tri-Campus (and graduate student representative)
Technical and project support:
- Joel Tobin, Compliance Services
- Jonathan Beck, Ph.D. Candidate, 2021 (student employee)
- Sarah Park, BA, 2020 (student employee)
Voice actors:
- Vincent Milay
- Marquis Julian Hill, English B.A., UW, 2016
- Akhila Narayanan, Computer Engineering, UW, 2024 (expected)
Recommended citation:
Swearingen, K., Wilmerding, E., Sechrest, P., Lichty, L., Sablan, J., Hanna, L., Cabrera, M., Rashid, J., Casey, E., Payne, J., Tobin, J., Beck, J., Blanchfield, D., O’Connell, E. (2021). Husky Prevention & Response Course [Online Course]. University of Washington. https://www.washington.edu/titleix/title-ix-education-and-outreach/
The following groups and UW units offered support during this project:
- The UW Title IX Steering Committee provided guidance and support for this endeavor.
- Groups of key stakeholders (students, staff, and faculty) conducted curriculum reviews at key stages throughout this project.
- Over 1,300 individual UW community members provided information about their priorities, needs, values, and dreams for courses like these.
- UW-IT, HR Benefits, Analytics & Information Services (HRIS), and the Integrated Service Center (ISC) provided technical support.
- The Office of Educational Assessment provided a nuanced and critical analysis of data from the 2019 UW Climate Survey.
- The Office of the Title IX Coordinator (now part of CRC) offered ongoing leadership and expertise.
Please submit any feedback or questions about the course to tixcourse@uw.edu.
Completion expectation FAQs
The UW takes sex- and gender-based violence and harassment, and discrimination very seriously and expects all employees to do the same.
It is very likely you either know a survivor of sexual or relationship violence or will have a co-worker or student share with you their experience during your time at the UW. We want to ensure you have the vital information you need to support that individual or seek support for yourself.
New employees must complete the course within 30 days of their hire date.
Existing employees were assigned the course in 2022 and required to complete the course within 30 days of their unit assignment date.
An employee who has completed the course will have a completion certificate emailed to their UW email address and can always return to the course to view information and save or print their certificate.
If you want a copy of your certificate, enter the employee course. On the homepage (where all the modules are listed), click MENU on the top right-hand side. A menu will pop out and your certificate will be available.
If you do not have a completion certificate, you have not completed the course. Proceed to an open module on the home screen to complete the course requirement.
Information for unit heads, administrators, and supervisors ensuring compliance with the Husky Prevention & Response (HPR) employee course requirement is available at Course Compliance for Leadership.
Supervisors may implement corrective action in accordance with the employee’s classification or job title. Non-compliance may be noted in performance or promotional reviews. An employee may become ineligible for opportunities that involve leadership, supervision of others, or other academic or work-related activities.
No, you will only need to take the HPR employee course one time.
If you become a UW student, you will also need to complete the HPR student course.
Yes, this course is specific to the University of Washington and contains information every UW employee needs. This course may build on the information you have learned in other classes or training.
No, you will only need to take the HPR course one time. You are welcome to go back and access information in the course at any time.
Yes, student employees are required to complete the HPR employee course and the student course. The employee and student courses have unique information relevant to those respective roles.
The employee course contains a unique track for student employees. As of July 2022, the student employee track was abbreviated and takes approximately 20 minutes to complete. The abbreviated student employee course presumes students have completed the student version of the course and provides additional, relevant information for students now operating in an employment context.
Unpaid affiliate faculty, contingent workers, contract workers, exempt employees, and ‘S-STIPEND’ group members are not currently required to complete the HPR course if they are in one of the following categories:
- Employment Program/Type ‘V=Affiliate’
- Employment Program/Type ‘T=Exempt Employee’
- Employment Program/type ‘F-Academic Personnel’ with Job ID 21184 (Unpaid Academic)
- Employment Program/Type ‘S-STIPEND’ with any of the following Job IDs
- Job ID 10441 (Visiting Fellow – Stipend)
- Job ID 21191 (Graduate Fellow Stipend w/ Benefits)
- Job ID 21192 (Graduate Fellow/Trainee Stipend w/o Benefits)
- Job ID 10859 (Graduate Trainee Stipend (NE UAW ASE)
- Job ID 21112 (Graduate Trainee Stipend w/ Benefits)
- Job ID 21113 (Other Stipend w/o Benefits)
These individuals will appear as “currently exempt” in the “course required” column of the Title IX Employee Course Completion BI Portal Report.
These individuals do have course access and may complete the course if they are interested.
A department or unit may choose to require course completion for their unpaid affiliate faculty members, contract workers, contingent workers, or exempt employees. If that occurs, the department or unit should send communications to those individuals instructing them to complete the course.
If you have previously completed the HPR employee course, you do not need to complete it again. If you are a returning employee who needs to complete the HPR course, we strongly recommend you wait until after your official hire date to begin the course. Completion records may not be retained if you complete the course before your new hire date.
Former student employees, who completed the student employee track and are subsequently hired into a staff or faculty role, are reassigned to the employee course in the track relevant to their new role.