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Participation Policy

It is with sincere desire that every participant has a life-changing experience, full of enjoyment and comfort. We are committed to providing a safe environment, cultivating positive interactions and respecting diversity cross-culturally. With expectancy of full participation, programs and services are most effective completed in totality. Listed below is our participation policy with explanations of expectations. 

Participants are expected to participate fully in each day of their cohort semester. Part of being a successful participant is being present to all sessions on a consistent basis. The Wonder Years Network, also referred to as TWYN, recognizes that there may be times when a participant must be absent from a session or a mandatory event due to illness, bereavement, or other reasons. However, there are limits.  If there is a major life event that cannot be rescheduled (e.g. graduation, religious holidays), the participant must reach out to the program director or office manager to provide notice a week in advance and coordinate a plan for receiving the missed content. Accordingly, failure to adhere to TWYN’s policies and procedures regarding attendance, attendance reporting, and lateness renders a participant subject to dismissal from TWYN program.

 

Attendance Policy Definitions:

  • An absence is defined as missing fifty percent (50%) or more of programming within a single day. 

  • An “absence occasion” is any period of continuous absence lasting more than one day for any reason. 

  • A participant is considered late when reporting to their session after the scheduled start time, missing less than fifty percent (50%) of programming within a single day.

 

TWYN, is committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive experience, free from discrimination and harassment. This policy demonstrates TWYN’s commitment to this environment and provides procedures for addressing misconduct from incidents experienced by vendors, employees, and participants. Participants are people who are taking part in an event, activity, seminar, or conference provided by The Wonder Years Network Inc. or one of its divisions, departments, programs, clubs, or other groups. Vendors are service providers of programming. Employees are hired workers of TWYN.

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Types of conduct that are prohibited: 

Brief summaries of the types of conduct that are prohibited by this Policy:

 

Discrimination: Treating a person differently than others based on that person’s protected status and it is sufficiently serious to unreasonably interfere with or limit the ability to participate in, access, or benefit from TWYN’s programs and activities. Discrimination can include failing to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

Harassment: A type of discrimination that happens when verbal, physical, electronic, or other behavior based on a person’s protected status interferes with their participation in TWYN’s programs and activities and it either creates an environment that a reasonable person in similar circumstances and with similar identities would find hostile, intimidating, or abusive; or where submitting to or rejecting the conduct is used as the basis for decisions that affect the person’s participation in the University’s programs and activities. Sexual assault or sexual violence and sexual exploitation, which are forms of sexual or gender-based harassment.

Retaliation: Retaliation against anyone who reports an incident or cooperates in the investigation of a report is strictly prohibited.

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Offenses that are criminal, of any kind, will be submitted to the authority of Law Enforcement. Participants are encouraged to report any incident.

We take this policy seriously. For questions or concerns, please use our contact page.

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