Introducing the Campus Digital Safety Playbook: A Free Resource for Higher Ed

Today we're releasing something we've been building for months: the Campus Digital Safety Playbook, a comprehensive resource for the people responsible for student safety — and it's free for every campus.

The Gap Every Campus Knows About

Students are forming relationships online every single day — through dating apps, messaging platforms, and social media — often long before a campus is ever aware those connections exist. By the time an incident reaches a Title IX office or a campus safety team, the warning signs have usually been visible for weeks.

Most institutions have strong resources for what happens after harm occurs. What's harder to find — and harder to fund — is structured programming that helps students recognize risks before anything happens. That's the gap this playbook was built to close.

What's Inside

The Campus Digital Safety Playbook is built specifically for Title IX coordinators, Student Affairs professionals, and Campus Safety teams. It covers the topics that matter most for prevention-focused work:

Digital relationship safety — how students actually meet and connect today, and where the risks concentrate.

Online manipulation tactics — the patterns behind catfishing, romance scams, love bombing, and coercion, explained in language students recognize.

Student engagement strategies — how to get safety programming in front of students in ways they'll actually pay attention to.

Prevention-focused education — frameworks for orientation programs, residence life, and wellness initiatives that build awareness before incidents, not after.

Awareness campaign ideas — ready-to-run concepts for putting digital safety on your campus's radar all year long.

Who It's For

If you work in Title IX, Student Affairs, Campus Safety, Orientation, Residence Life, or Health and Wellness, this was written for your desk. It's designed to be practical — something your team can actually deploy — not a white paper that sits in a drive folder.

How to Get It

The playbook is available now as a free download at cray.app/campus. No contract, no commitment — our goal is simply to put a genuinely useful prevention resource in the hands of the people who set the tone for campus safety.

And if the playbook sparks a bigger conversation about what proactive digital safety could look like at your institution, we'd love to have it. Learn about campus partnerships at cray.app/partnerships or reach out at hello@cray.app.

Prevention starts with awareness. Awareness starts here.

Vibes Lie. Patterns Don't.
— The Cray Team