SafeBar Alliance

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SafeBar Alliance provides education and bystander intervention training to participating bars and drinking establishments, and strengthens relationships that prioritize community safety. Its goal is to keep both bar staff and patrons safer from predatory behavior, harassment, and sexual assault. Good things happen when we create an environment where everyone is working together and looking out for each other.

Education & Training

Bar staff and patrons often witness alarming behaviors and are able to take action that can prevent sexual violence from happening, or help connect victims to the support and resources they need. SafeBar Alliance training builds upon the skills and experience bar staff already have and educates them about sexual violence myths, consent, and drug and alcohol-facilitated sexual assault. It also gives staff strategies to help them safely deescalate or intervene in a potentially unsafe situation, and to become more confident in making these important decisions quickly. Because every bar has a unique staff, atmosphere, and clientele, each bar will discuss an individual intervention strategy that best meets their particular needs.

Trainings take 2 hours, and are available nights and weekends to fit bars’ busy schedules.

Community Connections

Bar staff learn about how to utilize community resources like The Sexual Trauma and Abuse Care Center. A SafeBar rep from each bar will help the bar stay connected to the Care Center, and to other bars in the SafeBar Alliance. Through this network, we work to make the prevention of sexual violence both a priority of individual establishments and a value of the entire community.

Look for the logo!

 

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SafeBar Alliance bars are provided with free giveaway items of their choice including SafeBar Alliance posters that let patrons know they’re in a SafeBar Alliance establishment. During training, all staff will also receive SafeBar Alliance booklets containing useful intervention techniques.

Current Members in Lawrence, KS 

Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Post 852 (2016)
The Bourgeois Pig (2017)
Bon Bon (2017)
Lawrence Beer Company (2018)
KU Dining (2018- 2019)
John Brown Underground (2019)
Kaw Valley Public House (2019)
Henry T’s (2019)
Replay Lounge (2016, 2020)
Fields & Ivy Brewery (2020)
Wake The Dead (2020)
J. Wilson’s (2019, 2021)
Gaslight Gardens (2017, 2019, 2021)
Harbour Lights (2016, 2021)
715 (2017, 2021)
Johnny’s Tavern – North Lawrence (2019, 2021)
The Granada (2017, 2019, 2021)
The Bottleneck (2021)
Abe & Jake’s (2019, 2021)
Lucia (2019, 2021)
Louise’s West (2016, 2022)
Merchants Pub & Plate (2017, 2022)
Johnny’s Tavern – West Lawrence (2019, 2022)
The Burger Stand at The Casbah (2016, 2017, 2022)
RPG (Restaurant, Pub & Games) (2022)
Red Lyon Tavern (2017, 2022)
(Date indicates year of initial training)

Join the SafeBar Alliance

To schedule a training in Douglas, Franklin, or Jefferson Counties, contact us. 

If you live in another community and want to learn more about starting a SafeBar Alliance program:

Please contact us! We conduct remote trainings for facilitators, and can provide you with many of the materials you’ll need to get SafeBar Alliance started where you live.

In the News

Over a dozen Lawrence bars step up to stop sexual harassment – KSHB 41 Action News, Kansas City, 4/16/2018

Lawrence bars, restaurants work to address harassment of servers – Lawrence Journal-World, 4/16/2018

Lawrence program seeks to prevent sexual assault by training bartenders, University Daily Kansan, 11/28/2017

Partner Programs

SOS introduces Safe Bar Alliance to Emporia, 6/9/2018

Wichita Nonprofit Offering Training To Target Sexual Harassment In Bars, KMUW Wichita, 2/12/2018