Let’s Talk About It
Let's Talk About It is an in-depth, five hour prevention program that is typically presented for an hour a day for five days in a row for middle school aged youth, and can be adapted to fit schedule requirements. This curriculum focuses on healthy relationships, boundaries and skill-building to become an active bystander. Trained facilitators lead participants in discussion and activities designed to make the content relevant to their own lives and empower students to be a part of changing social norms through prosocial bystander behavior.
Through this interactive curriculum, students will be able to:
- Identify characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships
- Understand strategies and communication skills for setting boundaries and respecting other people's boundaries
- Identify media and cultural messages, including ideas about gender roles and masculinity/femininity, that can lead to sexual violence
- Understand what consent is and how it contributes to healthy relationships
- Identify verbal and nonverbal behaviors that constitute sexual harassment, sexual coercion and sexual assault
- Build empathy for survivors
- Describe the options for reporting sexual violence to a trusted adult
- Describe how to support a friend and refer them to resources
- Identify decision making steps for acting as an ally/active bystander
- Describe strategies for becoming an active bystander against sexual assault
Locations:
- Middle schools
- Youth-Serving Organizations
