Free Training on Statutory Rape Prevention, Choose Respect, & The White
Ribbon Campaign in Richmond, Va.

This training will educate participants on Youth Service Professional
Statutory Rape Awareness, Choose Respect - Healthy Teen Dating
Curriculum and The White Ribbon Campaign. The audience for the training
is youth service providers, teachers, prevention specialists and those
who do educational sessions with youth. Participants will receive a CD
with most of the curricula, videos and activities available
electronically

DATE: Friday April 24, 2009
TIME: 10:00am to 4:00pm
LOCATION: Auditorium
Richmond Main Library
101 East Franklin Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219


REGISTRATION: To register for this training, please visit the link below

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=H4kmOm_2bcAuJ6od9jD_2baIjQ_3d_3d


Youth Service Professional Statutory Rape Awareness

The sexual coercion curriculum is for youth service providers. The goal
is to help professionals gain an understanding of victims and
perpetrators of sexual coercion and exploitation of minor teens by
adults (statutory rape), learn grooming techniques used by perpetrators
and discuss ways to work with youth who are being sexually coerced.

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Choose Respect: Healthy Teen Relationships Training

Choose Respect is a national initiative to help youth ages 11-14 form
healthy relationships to prevent dating abuse before it starts. The
initiative reaches out to youth in this age group because they are still
forming attitudes and beliefs that will affect how they are treated and
how they treat others. Choose Respect also connects with parents,
teachers, youth leaders, and other caring adults who influence the lives
of youth. The way youth act and treat each other is often a reflection
of adults' actions. Healthy relationships are built on a foundation of
respect. You can help by educating youth and adults about the Choose
Respect initiative and how youth build healthy relationships.

The Virginia Department of Health is pleased to offer this upcoming
Choose Respect: Healthy Teen Relationships Training. All training
participants will receive a copy of the Choose Respect Video and
Curriculum Guide. This guide will give you everything you need to
present Choose Respect and lead a discussion about dating abuse in
youth. Use this guide to engage youth or parents and other caring
adults.

Course objectives include:
-Define dating abuse

-Identify an unhealthy relationship as depicted by characters in the
Causing Pain: Real Stories of Dating Abuse and Violence Video List

-Recognize the qualities of healthy relationship behavior

-Demonstrate a way to tell youth in unhealthy relationships how to end
the relationship or get help

-Identify the warning signs of an abusive relationship

-List recommendations for maintaining a healthy relationship

-Develop an activity to promote Choose Respect and healthy, respectful
relationships in the community

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The White Ribbon Campaign

Historically, women have been at the forefront addressing violence
against women. We think it is essential that men play a primary role in
the solution to end this violence. To do that, well-meaning men who
don't see themselves as part of the problem need to get involved.

This training addresses the questions:
Why is violence against women a men's issue? What can men do to prevent
violence against women? And how can we get more men involved?

The White Ribbon Campaign is part of a multinational effort to get men
involved in working to end violence against women, to raise awareness of
the problem, and to support organizations that deal with the
consequences of men's violence against women. WEB:
http://www.whiteribbon.ca

The training will also provide information and resources on how to
implement a White Ribbon Campaign in your community. Ongoing assistance
from the VA Dept. of Health will also be provided for organizations as
they begin working on their campaign.

Attendees will receive a campaign kit that includes:
*Organizer's Booklet
*White Ribbon Pledge Cards
*100 White Ribbons
*"A Call to Men" Video www.acalltomen.com or "Wrestling with Manhood
Boys, Bullying & Battering" (*depending on supply, to the first 15
programs to complete the follow-up report*)

Robert L. Franklin, MS
Male Outreach Coordinator
Division of Injury and Violence Prevention
Virginia Department of Health
109 Governor Street, 8th Floor
Richmond VA 23219
Phone: (804) 864-7739
Fax: (804) 864-7748

email: Robert.Franklin@...

web: http://www.menendingviolence.com
web: http://www.varapelaws.org
web: http://www.paramihija.com
web: http://www.vahealth.org/Injury/sexualviolence/