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6-10 |
11-13 |
14-19 |
Young Children’s Program (6-10). Our approach children’s personal safety is similar to teaching children other safety skills, like how to cross the street or leave a building during a fire. It is not necessary to discuss details of being hit by a car to teach them to look both ways, or talk abut the perils of a burning building to teach safe conduct. It is also not necessary to discuss details of molestation and abduction to learn boundary-setting and self-defense. The class answers questions children may have already. Education often lowers anxiety by providing a plan and teaching self-reliance. Includes:
•6-Hour Experiential Workshop
In the Children’s Workshop, students practice listening to their intuition and stopping unwanted touch by using their voice and effective body language. They also learn to deal with related issues like guilt, bribes, threats and how to keep telling an adult until they get help. We also teach safety rules with strangers, and physical self-defense techniques to stop abduction and get to safety. We address how to deal with in-the-moment bullying without engaging the person bullying. Our educational model emphasizes concept-based, learned, repetitive role-plays. We teach positive reinforcement and learning through success. Simple safety rules are presented in a straightforward and understandable manner.
Tweens (11-13). Middle-schoolers are in a unique position as they begin to learn about the larger world. Adults want to be sure to shape their impression, but we do not want them to be fully exposed to the reality that we see. This package balances teaching them a healthy perspective on things they will soon be learning about without being too mature. Includes:
•Personal Safety 101 for Tweens
Personal Safety 101 teaches what an assailant is looking for and how to avoid being that target by teaching awareness skills, body language, and using one’s voice to prevent or stop an assault. We also address how our socialization and media images affect how we react in threatening or dangerous situations. We show a video of our courses so that people can see what we do in our experiential classes, but also so that students can see someone who looks like them (size, gender, age, etc.) talking their way out of a bad situation/defending/taking care of themselves. People simply can’t do what they don’t believe is possible, so it’s important to shift those expectations.
•Technology & Safety for Tweens
This seminar includes interactive activities which help connect the “unreal” world of technology to the “real” world. We explore the consequences of using these very public and seemingly – but not actually –anonymous media, which may affect the emotional health of others (by cyber-bullying), one’s reputation among peers (by posted pictures, sexting), or employers or colleges impressions (by “updates”.)
•3-Hour Experiential Workshop
Students learn about their own intuition and how much they already know about determining who might give them a hard time or be up to no good and who they can probably trust in a variety of situations. They practice stopping unwanted touch by using their voice and effective body language. They also learn to deal with related issues like guilt, bribes, threats and how to keep telling an adult until they get help. They learn physical self-defense techniques to stop an assault and get to safety.
College Bound. For teens who will soon be away from home and living on their own, this package addresses personal safety with strangers by educating them about dangers, predators, and common assault situations. It also addresses boundaries with people they know or with whom they are beginning relationships – without the support or guidance of trusted adults. This package focuses on boundary-setting, the attitude of self-protection, and self-reliance. Includes:
•Personal Safety 101 Seminar
Personal Safety 101 teaches what an assailant is looking for and how to avoid being that target by teaching awareness skills, body language, and using one’s voice to prevent or stop an assault. We address how our socialization and media images affect how we react in threatening or dangerous situations. Students have an opportunity to question safety information they have received in the past to discover whether it is relevant or effective.
•Consent on Campus Seminar
We define consent as follows: the act of willingly and verbally agreeing to engage in specific sexual conduct. We shift the idea of consent from “not saying ‘no’” to saying “yes.” Instructors give examples of this principle in real-life scenarios and teach phasing so that participants are empowered with skills to ensure they have the fully consenting partner they want to have. As a result of the workshop, participants have improved self-reflection and self-awareness so that they are better able to actively, verbally stop a situation they do not want. Some of the key concepts addressed are that: consent is verbal; obtaining consent is an on-going process in any sexual interaction; and if someone is under the influence of drugs or alcohol, they are not able to give consent. The seminar can be modified to be appropriate for students who are not yet sexually active (i.e. consent for hand holding, kissing, etc.)
•Healthy Relationships Seminar
This seminar examines the behaviors that constitute healthy and unhealthy, or abusive, relationships. We begin with interactive activity to understand the progression along the increasingly controlling and abusive spectrum of domestic violence. Students learn early signs of domestic violence and discuss personal boundaries and choices they make with “lower level” domestic violence. The discussion then turns to healthy relationships and helps the students determine what healthy relationships might look like, and which aspects are particularly valuable for each participant personally.
•Undetected Rapist Seminar
80% of rape victims know the person who assaulted them. The majority of rapes occur without any or with limited physical coercion. This class’s purpose is to dispel the myth of rape being a stranger hiding in the bushes or parking lots and to replace it with an educated awareness of what rape is, who commits it, and how it is possible to avoid it. The implications of drugs and alcohol use as it pertains to sexual assault are addressed.
•5-18-Hour Experiential Verbal & Physical Course
Awareness & avoidance skills; verbal de-escalation and dissuasion techniques; boundary setting skills with people we know; physical skills for a face-to-face confrontation. In longer classes, students learn boundary setting skills with people they know in intimate situations; defense against various predatory attacks (attacks from behind), situations that go down to the ground (ground fighting) or start off in a bed.
See Youth Leadership & At Risk Teen Packages for more teen-aged packages
