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Comprehensive Prevention Programs Combat Sexual Violence
In decades past, prevention focused on “stranger danger” or telling women not to drink, but new evidence shows us that strategies like this don’t work. Now, sexual violence prevention focuses on promoting positive social norms, teaching skills, providing empowerment opportunities, creating protective environments, and supporting survivors.
CONTACT provides prevention education free of charge to schools, organizations, and individuals.
For personal online training, visit WV FRIS’ SASTA training site: https://sasta.fris.org/
Circles of Safety for Youth Leaders
Safe Dates for Tweens
Elevatus Sexuality Education for People with Developmental Disabilities
Custom
Available Prevention Education Programs & Curriculum
Circles of Safety – For youth leaders and other adults
- Circles of Safety is an innovative curriculum that teaches adults how to spot and prevent child abuse. This training is perfect for foster parents, coaches, teachers, scout leaders, religious leaders, and any adults interested in learning what they can do to keep children safe!
We can do Circles of Safety in person or online.
Learn more about the curriculum here: https://www.stopitnow.org/circles-of-safety-training
Elevatus Sexuality Course – For people with disabilities
- Elevatus has a sexuality education program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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This curriculum is a sexual and relationship health class for teens and adults with developmental disabilities. Topics include appropriate behavior in and out of romantic relationships, self-advocacy, and communication.
Learn more about the curriculum here: https://www.elevatustraining.com/workshops-and-products/sexuality-education-for-people-with-developmental-disabilities-curriculum
Green Dot and Bystander Intervention -for high schoolers through adults
- Through bystander intervention training, the Green Dot program trains witnesses to interrupt situations that could lead to violence.
- Learn more about bystander intervention here: https://sexualmisconduct.uic.edu/education-and-training/bystander-intervention.
Mind Matters – for ages 12 and up
- Training on overcoming adversity and building resilience
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People experiencing ongoing stress or prior trauma often have difficulty regulating their emotional responses when facing challenges in school, work, life, or relationships. Participants learn to address their physical, relational, and mental health needs.
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Learn more: https://dibbleinstitute.org/our-programs/mind-matters-overcoming-adversity-and-building-resilience/
CLEAR or Coaching Boys Into Men – for high school and college athletes
- Athletic coaches play an extremely influential and unique role in the lives of young people, often serving as a parent or mentor to the youths they coach.
- Because of these special relationships, coaches are uniquely poised to positively influence how young people think and behave both on, and off, the field.
- CLEAR and CBIM harness that power to help create environments and social norms free from sexual violence.
- CBIM: https://coachescorner.org/
- CLEAR: https://itsonuswv.org/for-colleges/clear-coaching-leadership-equity-and-respect/
Safe Dates – For teens
- Did you know that 1 in 4 adolescents experience dating violence?
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CONTACT offers “Safe Dates” curriculum for grades 8-12. This great curriculum teaches teens how to have healthy relationships – this evidence-based program helps teens recognize the difference between caring, supportive relationships and controlling, manipulative, or abusive relationships. It is during the critical preteen and teen years that young people begin to learn the skills needed to create and foster positive relationships.
For more information visit: https://www.hazelden.org/store/item/545255
Be the Boss of Your Body – For children
- This comprehensive curriculum for k-4 youth was design by WV FRIS to meet Erin Merryn’s Law requirements for educators on body safety.
- The ‘Be the Boss of Your Body’ Coloring and Activity book was designed to help children better identify and talk about their feelings, recognize their personal boundaries and those of others, understand the difference between secrets and surprises and identify a network of safe adults.
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For more information on this curriculum, please email us at educator@contacthuntington.com or visit FRIS’ training site SASTA.
Relationship Smarts – for teens
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Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.0 is a 13-lesson evidence-based relationship skills curriculum for young teens (ages 12-16). The curriculum integrates life skills, healthy relationships, dating violence prevention, and pregnancy prevention. It is designed to help teens learn how to make wise choices about relationships, dating, partners, sex, and more.
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Version 5.0 includes brand new and updated content important to today’s youth, including sex trafficking prevention, technology in relationships, navigating relationships in the digital age, online porn, sexual assault, consent—and their impact on relationships.
- Learn more: https://dibbleinstitute.org/our-programs/relationship-smarts-plus-5-0
Beyond the Bar – Bystander intervention training for bar workers
- This curriculum is currently being developed and is expected to be available by late 2024 or early 2025.
- For more information, please email camadv@contacthuntington.com.
Project SELFIE – Middle and High Schools
- Sexting prevention for teens and tweens.
- Project SELFIE is a developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed positive health education program.
- Topics include the distinction between consent, cooperation, and compliance in digital interactions; the laws on sexting by minors; how to cope with peer pressure; ways to respond to requests to sext; ways to respond to unsolicited sexts; and how to be an empowered bystander.
- Part of the “The Healthy Relationships Project ™” by Prevent Child Abuse Vermont: https://www.pcavt.org/healthy-relationships-project
Custom Training – for all ages and locations
- Our educators regularly craft custom education programs to the needs of our community. We have in the past done custom training for pre-k programs, middle schools, special events, city employees, and others.
- To ask about our custom programs, please email educator@contacthuntington.com
Specific Programs are Also Available for:
- New student orientation (Week of Welcome, UNI 101, First Year Seminar)
- Employee Orientation
- Resident Advisor Training
For More Information:
(304) 523-3447
educator@contacthuntington.com
Professional Development Training
Other custom presentations can be created for organizations and businesses needing sexual harassment training, diversity training, and bystander intervention training. More topics are available upon request.