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This youth-focused, 8-session (each session is 90 minutes) curriculum teaches participants about intimate partner violence and sexual assault prevention. Through hands-on activities, multimedia, role-play exercises, and facilitated discussions, teens will have opportunities to examine various elements of relationships and develop skills to identify and replicate healthy dynamics in interpersonal interactions. Topics are also available as standalone workshops.
Sessions
Session 1: Teen Dating Violence
This session is an overview of teen dating violence that explores the red flags of an abusive relationship teens should know to identify when dating.
Session 2: Why Do People Stay/Bystander Intervention
This session offers thorough information about the dynamics of dating violence: the cycle of violence, barriers to leaving an abusive relationship, and how to be a positive bystander.
Session 3: Healthy Sexuality & Sexual Violence
This session teaches the different elements of healthy sexuality, enables participants to identify the key elements of giving and receiving consent, and breaks down the cultural and social factors of sexual violence.
Session 4: Gender 101—Masculinity & Femininity
In this session, participants will discuss the impact of naming or not naming different stereotypes associated with masculinity and femininity and how we choose to describe what practices, values, or ways of being we associate with various gender roles. Participants will discuss how the messages we are taught about gender can impact relationships.
Session 5: Values
Participants will explore the values they have learned through their life experiences and tap into the values that would keep them safe in a relationship. They’ll learn to differentiate between the components of a relationship that can be negotiable for them and the components that cannot. By the end of this workshop, participants will have a nuanced understanding of what their personal “deal breakers” in a relationship are.
Session 6: Self-Esteem & Jealousy
Participants will learn the importance of healthy self-esteem in a relationship. They will learn tips and techniques to foster and maintain a healthy self-image. Additionally, participants will explore the role jealousy plays in a relationship. They will have a deeper understanding about the differences between jealous behavior, jealous feelings, and jealous thoughts and, in turn, will recognize the impact jealousy might have on their self-esteem.
Session 7: Communication
Participants will experience how important communication is to a healthy relationship. They will learn strategies to communicate clearly by creating and role-playing through a variety of scenarios, and they will learn the differences in aggressive, passive, passive-aggressive, and assertive behaviors.
Session 8: Review Game
This session uses a Jeopardy-style trivia game to test participants’ knowledge on what they have learned throughout the sessions.
For more information or to request a HYPE session, contact Debra Miller, Domestic and Sexual Violence Services youth, education, and outreach specialist.