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Prevention Education
To contact the Client Advocate / Prevention Educator please call our Administrative Office: 269-273-6154 Ext 106
Our dedicated Prevention Educator will make himself available for a diverse pool of programs and presentations. Like all our services, they are free of charge. The topics covered range from children's issues, to common offender profiles, stalking, partner violence and sexual assault issues.
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Healthy Relationships: A State Education approved curriculum for all Middle and High School Students
Download Program brochure HERE Or click on the pictures below.
- Types of abuse
- Consent issues
- Power and control dynamics
- Partner Violence
- Sexual Assault
- 'Sexting': State of current laws and primary prevention
- Why abusers abuse and why survivors stay
- Myths encountered with partner violence, sexual assault and harassment
- Harassment/ Bullying Prevention
- Facilitator drugs
- Michigan criminal sexual conduct laws
- How to help a friend who has been victimized
- What to do if being abused
- Active Bystanderism / Bystander intervention
Goals of the Program:
- Increased Awareness of sexual assault and partner violence and how often it happens
- Increased knowledge of the issues, especially in terms of definitions, myths, patterns, power and control, the law and resources
- Developed compassion and empathy towards survivors
- Students feel empowered to intercede for people around them and how to deal with violence, if encountered
- Form understanding of a healthy relationship dynamic
Other Presentations:
Please keep in mind these programs are completely flexible and can be customized for any group or audience
Note: All Programs are Client/Survivor/Victim centered, Offender focused
- The most common profiles of partner abusers, stalkers, child rapists, stranger rapists and familiar rapists
- Rape Trauma Continuum - stages and implications for intervention and recovery
- Predatory drugs
- Dynamics of Sexual assault, stalking, partner violence and harassment
- Bystander Intervention
- Social Normalization - Intersections of identity and oppression
- Michigan State laws on Criminal Sexual Conduct, stalking, harassment
- How to help a survivor
- Exploration of societal myths versus what actually happens with sexual assault
- Sexual assault prevention vs avoidance
- Male narratives of violence
Professional Presentations
Please keep in mind these programs are intended for a specific, professional audience.
Note: All Programs are Client/Survivor/Victim centered, Offender focused
- Police and law enforcement best practices
- Prosecutorial concerns: Overcoming jury bias
- Building the Matrix: "If you build it, they will come", a coordinated community response to sexual assault, partner violence
- Media education: Responsibily Reporting on sexual assault in our communities
