Healthy Relationships Project is a series of child
sexual abuse prevention programs that build knowledge and skills for educators, parents and caregivers and young children ages 3 - 14.
The Healthy Relationships Project encompasses PCAVT's three curriculum - based child
sexual abuse prevention programs.
She has advised numerous Catholic dioceses and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in their efforts to implement research - based
sexual abuse prevention programs in order to establish safe environments for children in their care.
She also advised numerous Catholic dioceses and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in their efforts to implement research - based
sexual abuse prevention programs in order to establish safe environments for children in their care.
Not exact matches
Pattie Fitzgerald, child safety advocate and recognized expert in the field of childhood
sexual abuse prevention education, child abduction
prevention, and Internet safety, is the founder of Safely Ever After, Inc, a
prevention education and safety
program for parents and kids.
The bill also calls for professional development to include
programs on
sexual abuse and assault awareness and
prevention.
In fact child
sexual abuse prevention was the goal of Committee for Children's first published curriculum, the Talking About Touching
program.
She is a well - known speaker and
program leader on subjects such as bully
prevention, Internet safety,
sexual harassment, date rape and child
abuse.
Ivan Haskell, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Joseph J. Peters Institute, an outpatient assessment, treatment and
prevention program serving survivors of
sexual abuse and offenders with specialized
programs for children, adolescents and adults in Center City Philadelphia.
In a 2003 paper in the American Psychologist, Maury Nation and colleagues identified a set of characteristics that were associated with the most effective
prevention programs in the areas of substance
abuse, risky
sexual behavior, delinquency and violence, and school failure.114 John Borkowski, Leann Smith, and Carol Akai subsequently summarized the key themes of the Nation paper and identified a set of ten principles of effective
prevention programs.
Previous delinquency, substance
abuse, and teen pregnancy
prevention programs have been provided in the late elementary or middle school grades, just prior to the ages when delinquent behavior, substance use, and
sexual activity increase in prevalence.6, 7,31,32 Yet the social development model that guides the present intervention suggests that early and sustained intervention through the elementary grades should put children on a different developmental trajectory leading to positive outcomes over the long term.
In contrast, the reported rates of child
sexual abuse (CSA) have been on the decline, but the reason is unclear; this may reflect an actual reduction, perhaps due to the success of
prevention programs, but could also be attributed to an increasing reluctance of victims to report the
abuse, or more restrictive criteria to identify CSA.
Safe Dates is a school - based
prevention program for middle and high school students designed to stop or prevent the initiation of dating violence victimization and perpetration, including the psychological, physical, and
sexual abuse that may occur between youths involved in a dating relationship.
The most cost - effective policies that reduce child
sexual abuse are
prevention efforts, and the most effective
prevention efforts occur when children receive a school - based
prevention program in conjunction with the involvement of a caring adult.
We currently offer social - emotional learning, bullying
prevention, child
sexual abuse prevention, and mindfulness
programs — all of which allow students to excel in the classroom and teach skills that will last a lifetime.
Through political action or by helping to develop wide ranging
programs at both the treatment and
prevention levels, they can help address such issues as
sexual abuse, substance
abuse, poverty, and teen pregnancy.
«We have two things we offer: a
prevention program — so preventing
sexual abuse called «Prevent It,» (and) it's available across Canada — and then in September, the doors opened to the beautiful Be Brave Ranch, which is the first long - term treatment centre for kids that have been sexually
abused, in the world.»