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At Boston College, a Jesuit Catholic school, we have to be creative about working with the Great American Condom Campaign and figuring out how to reach students with safer sex information and resources. Openly distributing sexual health resources -- condoms, that is -- on campus property is grounds for intervention by the police.
So, after establishing a campus-wide Safe Sites program to ensure that condoms are available in the dorms - where students need them most - my organization, BC Students for Sexual Health, looked for additional ways to get the resources out to students. We decided to start giving out "Responsible Party Kits." Each kit consists of two components: a set of solo cups with a condom taped to the bottom of each cup and a series of three flyers with consent and safer sex information (see below). Any Boston College student can receive a Responsible Party Kit for free as long as they promise to hang the flyers in a visible place during their party. In this way, anyone holding a cup of beer at a "Responsible Party" is also discretely provided a condom.
The distribution system works through a Google form, which anyone can fill out online, where students' information is entered into a spreadsheet visible to members of BC Students for Sexual Health. Once we get the request, we prepare a Kit and schedule a drop-off time to bring the supplies directly to the room.
By capitalizing on students' need for and love of free things, in this case solo cups, we are able to reach a larger audience. Particularly in our case - because our more active, daytime condom distribution has been limited to sidewalks around campus that mainly target freshmen and sophomores -- giving out Responsible Party Kits has been a successful way to reach upperclassmen.
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