Comments | amilyn: Important advisory at school

amilyn

Important advisory at school

Oct 27, 2007 12:11

The advisory lesson I wrote about sexual assault prevention and setting personal boundaries went very well. When I presented the lesson I'd written to the faculty last Friday it went very well and something like a dozen faculty members (or more!) told me that they thought it was really good, really important, and they were glad I'd put it together ( Read more... )

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therealjae October 27 2007, 20:02:05 UTC

Oh my god, you are so cool.

-J

amilyn October 27 2007, 20:59:15 UTC

Thanks.

I've been trying to get to do this for several years, but never knew how to push or sell it...and this year my dept chair got entirely on board and decided he would push for it to happen, so he did the sales and I put together the materials and talked about what to do and how.

:-)

ceridwyn2 October 28 2007, 00:18:13 UTC

That's BRILLIANT. Congratulations. It's a topic that SHOULD be addressed in schools. I know it's addressed in many universities, but it does need to be addressed as early as possible, in age-appropriate levels, so that kids know that abuse, coersion, sexual assault are not to be tolerated, and give them the resources to deal with that information if it is happening. Many times, they don't have the language and the words to make people understand that it is okay to say 'no' and it's wrong for someone to touch them without their permission. And to tell somebody when it is happening to them. It's more difficult for a child to think about telling someone, when they're afraid they'll be punished for telling.

Years ago when I was a student in the Faculty of Nursing at the local university, I was involved in a peer-to-peer sex education program, called Peer Education in Healthy Sexual Behaviours (aka - SWAT - Sex Without AIDS Today). The Faculty of Nursing ran it. The profs that ran the program have been involved in AIDS research and ( ... )

jadefeatheredge October 28 2007, 23:22:14 UTC

At DePaul last June, two senior Women's and Gender Studies students staged a protest with the support of one of their professors. They were concerned that DePaul had no resources dedicated to rape and assault victims.

The counsellors we had were not certified for these situations. Meanwhile, Loyola and UIC have counselling >departments< dedicated to sexually assaulted students ( ... )

kevenn October 29 2007, 14:13:21 UTC

Simply awesome. :)