April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month…
Sexual assault includes a wide range of victimizations including attacks or attempts of unwanted sexual contact between the victim and offender. It may or may not involve force and include things such as grabbing, fondling, and verbal threats. The most important form of sexual assault prevention is through healthy relationship education. This page contains all the needed resources to support youth in sexual assault awareness and prevention.
Consent: It’s as Simple as Tea
If the line between sexual assault and consent is unclear, use this simple animated video to drive home the message of consent.
(This video is used in conjunction with Love Notes – Lesson 7: Dangerous Love)
Use Dibble’s Award-Winning program: Love Notes to engage young adults in learning key concepts for sexual assault prevention like
- Forming and maintaining healthy relationships
- Frameworks for assessing relationships and making decisions
- Recognizing unhealthy relationships and responding to dangerous ones
- All new content on cyber bullying, sexual assault, and ways drugs and alcohol affect relationships
and so much more!
Teach the importance of Consent
Dibble hosts a monthly webinar series, check out this webinar on consent.
Many young people are undereducated in consent, thus limiting their understanding of what it is and what it is not. Research finds persistent confusion about what constitutes both lack of consent and sexual assault. As youth-serving professionals, we can help bridge that gap to help young people better understand these two relevant and extremely important topics. In other words, let’s work to help “unblur” what for some can be a blurry understanding of consent and sexual assault.
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Total Victimization in 2019
37% of the total violent victimization in experienced in 2019 was identified as rape, sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated assault. Source.
Love Notes Lessons
- Relationships Today
- Knowing Yourself
- My Expectations – My Future
- Attraction & Starting Relationships
- Principles of Smart Relationships
- Is it a Healthy Relationship
- Dangerous Love
- Decide, Don’t Slide!
- What’s Communication Got to Do With It?
- Communication Challenges
- Let’s Talk About Sex
- Let’s Plan for Choices
- Through the Eyes of a Child