Workshops Offered

The Sexual Assault Prevention Program offers a wide array of programming and workshops. 3rd-6th grade workshops:

Working with mixed gender groups to provide education on respect, building communication skills, identifying bullying and harassment and working to prevent bullying and harassment.
Working with girl only groups to enhance self-esteem, practice assertive communication, learn age appropriate self defense techniques, and empathy building.
Working with boy only groups to provide education on choosing respect, to build empathy, to expand the concept of boyhood, to practice conflict mediation and lean coping skills.

7th & 8th grade workshops:

Working with mixed gender classes to provide education on stereotypes, harassment, sexual harassment, sexual assault, what consent really means, how coercion and unequal relationships impact consent and how to go from an inactive bystander to an active ally.
Working with boy only groups to focus on gender stereotypes, choosing respect, educating about sexual harassment and sexual assault, speaking out against sexualized violence, becoming an active ally, improving communication skills and building empathy.
Working with girls only to provide age appropriate self defense techniques

9th-12th grade workshops:

Mixed gendered, multi-session presentations that educate students on sexual assault, consent, coercion, busting myths, the role of the media and marketing, moving toward primary prevention strategies, becoming an active ally, what respect looks like, and improving communication skills.
Training teens to become peer prevention educators. These teen educators meet weekly to go through training and then are equipped to co-facilitate presentations to their peers. In addition peer prevention educators engage in at least one community or learning service project to help improve their school and/or community atmosphere.
Working with boys only to provide education on sexual and intimate partner violence prevention. This includes analyzing gender–in particular masculinity, building empathy, understanding consent and coercion, holding those who choose to commit sexual assault accountable, how to become an ally and more.
Working with girls only to provide assertiveness and self defense training

Workshops for college students:

Behaviors that could constitute sexual assault and how society, our peers, our friends and ourselves might view these different behaviors depending on the context.
Understanding consent and coercion
Looking at how gender construction could contribute to sexual violence
Assessing the role alcohol plays in sexual violence
Analyzing risk reduction focused on potential victimization in contrast with strategies focused on prevention potential perpetration
A condensed presentation that captures elements of the other workshops
Working with women to provide assertiveness and self-defense training. We offer several training sessions throughout the year and welcome group requests for training.
Training college students to become Sexual Assault Prevention Educators. Prevention Educators undergo training in order to facilitate and co-facilitate presentations to all age groups. Prevention Educators also assist the program in event planning, the Clothesline Project, fundraisers, workshop development, social marketing and more. This is an ongoing process which begins during Fall quarter
Working with university men to become allies. This is an ongoing process.

Community workshops:

Self Defense workshops for women
Educating parents on how to help their children have healthy relationships and how to talk with their children about sexual violence
Working with community leaders on how to make our communities safer, where leadership fits with primary prevention of sexual violence.
Working with organizations and business to provide sexual violence prevention in the workplace training.

Other Programs, Partnerships and Events:

Working with the Athens Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition on a variety of activities within Athens County.
Working with Ohio University’s Student Senate and Women’s Affairs Commissioner to help plan and implement the annual Take Back the Night
Reporting to and working with city council and city administration within the city of Athens to encourage primary prevention strategies at the legislative and executive levels.
Working with the Social Work Department at Ohio University to provide volunteer and intern opportunities for pre-social work and social work students
Participating in Teen Dating Violence Awareness Week
Holding events, vigils and workshops in April for National Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Participating in the annual Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network, “Get Carded” day.
Offering assistance to Ohio University’s Health Promotion Department during September’s Campus Sexual Assault Awareness month.
Attending health fairs and other events such as KidFest, Boogie on the Bricks, and the Athens Farmer’s Market
Implementing a marketing campaign on becoming an active ally which includes posters, public service announcements, educational presentations and more.

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