April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the UB Violence Prevention Team is holding in-service training designed to raise awareness about sexual violence, educate members of the UB community on how to prevent it and provide support for those who have experienced it.

The training, a screening of the film “Flirting with Danger” followed by a panel discussion, will take place from noon to 2 p.m. April 30 in 210 Student Union, North Campus.

The event is free of charge, but space is limited. To register, contact Anna Sotelo-Peryea at acperyea@buffalo.edu.

In “Flirting with Danger,” social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the line between consent and coercion, and the ways girls and women navigate their heterosexual relationships and hookups.

Featuring dramatizations of interviews that Phillips conducted with hundreds of young women, the film examines how the wider culture’s frequently contradictory messages about pleasure, danger, agency and victimization enter into women's most intimate relationships with men.

The post-film discussion will be facilitated by Ellen Volpe, assistant professor in the School of Nursing, whose areas of expertise include dating violence, relationship power and adolescent risk behaviors, among others.