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This is the home page for Illinois Required Training Solutions’ 2023-2024 Chicago Bystander Intervention Training, part of a course bundle that contains annual sexual harassment training for Illinois employees as well as containing the specialized content required for workers within the City of Chicago.

This course meets and exceeds the bystander intervention training requirement of Chicago Ordinance 2022-665.  This Ordinance changed the Chicago city municipal code to require that every worker in Chicago receive one hour of bystander intervention training, in addition to their required sexual harassment prevention training, every year.

This course requires one hour (60 minutes) of time spent with the course content.  It does NOT have to be completed all in one sitting.  Some people take longer depending on their preferred learning speed.  The course has no maximum time limit to complete.

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Disclaimer

Not Legal Advice

While this course has been developed by experts qualified to provide employee training, nothing on this site or in this or other courses is specifically intended to constitute legal advice or serve as a substitute for counsel with expertise in employment law.

To address specific needs in a particular workplace, Illinois Required Training Solutions strongly advises site users and visitors to consult in-house counsel or retain independent counsel to advise on industry-specific practices and other specifics and applications.

What Can I Expect From This Course or Course Bundle?

You'll do a lot of reading at your own pace, and a lot of clicking or tapping.

We're required to make our courses interactive and individualized, so we present material in small chunks, but as fast as you want to see it.  Don't worry, you don't have to complete the course all in one sitting.  If you need a break or to take care of something, feel free to step away.  While the system will time you out if you don't click or tap on anything for about ten minutes, every click or tap is saving your place and your progress.

A rabbit kit is cradled in a rescuer's hands

You'll see a lot of cute pictures of animals.

We don't serve up a lot of cringeworthy pictures of people doing creepy things to others.  We're willing to bet you already know what creepy is, so we spare you the visuals.

We won't show you icky videos

For the same reason we don't show you ugly and possibly triggering pictures, we don't use videos in this course or in any of our sexual harassment prevention training or related courses.  Because the book is always better than the movie, we prefer to teach by positive example rather than making trainees squirm in discomfort.  We know you'll appreciate this.

You'll see a lot of cute pictures of animals.

We don't serve up a lot of cringeworthy pictures of people doing creepy things to others.  We're willing to bet you already know what creepy is, so we spare you the visuals.

A rabbit kit is cradled in a rescuer's hands

We won't show you icky videos

For the same reason we don't show you ugly and possibly triggering pictures, we don't use videos in this course or in any of our SHPT or related courses.  Because the book is always better than the movie, we prefer to teach by positive example rather than making trainees squirm in discomfort.  We know you'll appreciate this.

The first few lessons teach you how to take the course.

We use the first few lessons to explain how to use the course controls, and there's a sample quiz to teach you how to take a quiz.  If you've taken one of our courses previously, this will all be familiar and you can skip through the intro part.  You'll be into the meat of the content quickly.

There are quizzes and a final exam.

But don't worry, all our quizzes, including the final exam, are retest-until-pass.  We don't count how many times anyone retakes any quiz.  And we always explain the quiz answers, including why the right answer is right and the other answer choices are wrong.  So it's easy to get 100% on our courses. 

Course completion certificates are issued immediately.

The instant a trainee successfully completes one of our training courses, they are taken to the Achievements tab of the My Dashboard control panel, where certificates of completion are linked in PDF format for immediate download simply by clicking on the course name.  Print, email, save or file as desired.  No waiting for an email that might take days to arrive or get stuck in spam or junk.

There's an online help resource.

In case you should need it, help is one click away.  Feel free to open the link and leave it open in another window or bookmark it if you'd like. 

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Course Curriculum

  • I231IL – How to Navigate This Course (1) Preview
    1 minutes
  • I232IL How to Navigate This Course (2) Preview
    1 minutes
  • IQ233 – Taking (and Retaking, if necessary) a Quiz or Exam
    3 questions
  • I235By – Learning Objectives for Chicago Bystanders Preview
    1 minutes
  • BF2301 – Who is a Bystander?
    1 minutes
  • BF2302 – Why Get Involved? – Restraining Forces
    1 minutes
  • BF2303 -Restraining Forces (2) – Big Crowd, Making it Worse?
    1 minutes
  • BF2304 – Restraining Forces (3) – What if the Harasser Turns on Me?
    1 minutes
  • BFQ2209 – Bystander Fundamentals Quiz
    Dynamic
  • BIM2301 – (More Than Simply) Direct Confrontation
    2 minutes
  • BIM2302 – Interrupt, Distract, Deflect
    2 minutes
  • BIM2302b – Won’t the Harasser Learn?
    1 minutes
  • BIM2303 – Getting Help
    2 minutes
  • BIM2304 – Observe and Record (IL)
    2 minutes
  • BIM2305 – Support and Report
    1 minutes
  • BIMQ2209 – Bystander Intervention Methods Quiz
    Dynamic
  • BCS2301 – Choosing the Right Intervention Method
    2 minutes
  • BCS2302 – Bystander Intervention in the Workplace
    2 minutes
  • BCS2303 – Workplace Intervention – Help and Reporting (Chicago)
    2 minutes
  • BCS2304 -Benefits of Active Bystanders
    1 minutes
  • BCS2305 -Why Workplaces Want (And Need!) Active Bystanders
    2 minutes
  • BCS2306 – But Am I Going To Get Fired?
    1 minutes
  • BCSQ2209 – Bystander Strategy Choices Quiz
    Dynamic
  • BAQ2209 – Bystander Applications Quiz
    Dynamic
  • Z2302ByChi Student Feedback, and Checking Your Work (37776)
    1 minutes
  • XQ22ByChi Final Exam (Chicago Bystanders)
    Dynamic
  • XZILBy23 – Final Screen (Chicago Bystanders)
    1 minutes

This course as reviewed to date:

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good course
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thanks

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Daiyla McWilliams
Some of the questions are worded poorly.
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This form of testing is outdated and relies on reading comprehension more so than real life experience. It\'s an okay test but is not inclusive at all since most of the questions are worded in a way meant to confuse or difficult to follow.

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Karla Hanson
Chicago Bystander Intervention
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Thank you.

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shawn alexander
Chicago Bystander training
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Informative but the mandatory time is difficult for fast readers

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Debi Cullen
Clerical
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Found a few questions were an answer didn\'t march the scenario.

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Samiha Muhammad
Clear and easy to Understand
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Laspina
Great Lesson!
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Easy to follow along

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Elizabeth Pearson
2023-2024 Chicago Bystander Intervention Training (GSGCNWI)
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Ariel Basham
Make the content an hour long
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Look, I don\'t like being punished for being a quick learner, so I really don\'t appreciate having to keep the window open (and active) after finishing the course in 45 minutes (I tried to leave it open while I went to lunch, keeping in mind that it would time out after 10 minutes, but the timer stops if the screen is minimized, so that didn\'t work). If you want me to take an hour to complete the course, maybe put an hour of content (excluding the section at the beginning about how to take the course. That\'s literally the same on every one).

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Kathy Coley
2023 Chicago Bystander Intervention Training (GSCGNWI)
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The entire sentence in the slide which begins with \" Exit interviews with minority employees (which was underlined) often shows that it is not just ....... I found the specific call out to minority offensive and unnecessary for it could be applicable to anyone in the exit interview process.

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Sarah Knipfer
Chicago bystander intervention
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Kathy Sherwin
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Jeanette Pelz
Great!
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Always great and updated information.

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Martha Sternickle
thank you
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Melissa Mallinson
thanks
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eom

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Jeremiah Brooks
Easy, stress-free, bystander training which doesn\'t invoke heavy cringing!
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Jody Zavorski
Okay
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Some spelling and grammar errors, but overall not bad.

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Lillian Ryan
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This was a great course and I feel more equipped to be an active bystander.

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Byanca Buford
It was good!
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Andrea Montes Peña
very good course
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Good method to learn and easy to understand.

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Laura Ramirez
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Sparrow Delgado
Great material!
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The course was engaging, well-organized, and — speaking as someone who is generally pretty reserved in public and is a member of the LGBTQ+ community — it has helped to instill me with more confidence to recognize situations where it is appropriate to step up, and to give me more tools & methods with which to do so ☺️

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Disclaimer

Not Legal Advice

While this course has been developed by experts qualified to provide employee training under applicable state and local law, nothing on this site or in this or other courses is specifically intended to constitute legal advice or serve as a substitute for counsel with expertise in employment law.

To address specific needs in a particular workplace, Required Training Solutions strongly advises site users and visitors to consult in-house counsel or retain independent counsel to advise on industry-specific practices and other specifics and applications.