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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Ozark Rape Crisis Center believes it is critical to provide effective sexual violence prevention education and information to the community and offers the following violence prevention educational programs to schools, churches, employers, professional organizations, civic clubs and other organizations at no cost. Safe Dates - This is a multi-session, evidence based curriculum designed to prevent the initiation of psychological, physical, and sexual abuse between individuals in relationships. The facilitator utilizes group discussion, role play, a poster contest, and even a real play that can be performed by the students. Safe Dates meets many of the frameworks as established by the Arkansas Department of Education. This program is appropriate for grades 5 - 12. Sexual
Violence Awareness and Prevention - This is a single session program
that discusses sexual assault statutes, myths about rape, the effects
of sexual violence on a victim, what to do if someone has been sexually
assaulted, red flags of dangerous relationships, and date rape drugs.
Safety tips and resource information are offered throughout program. This
program is appropriate for grade 7 through and adult. Sexual Harassment - This can be presented as a single session or in a multi-session format and defines sexual harassment while discussing behaviors that constitute sexual harassment and the effects of this type of harassment on the victims. Steps to fight and report sexual harassment are given to the audience. This program is appropriate for grade 7 through adult. Dangerous Relationships - This is a single session program that discusses the different types of abuse: emotional, physical, and sexual. Other topics include healthy vs. unhealthy relationships, red flags of a dangerous relationship, and steps to end an unhealthy relationship. This program is appropriate for grade 7 through adult. The Men's Program - This is a single session peer education program that builds empathy for victims by teaching men how to help women recover from rape, while challenging men to change their own behavior and influence others. This program is appropriate for adult males. Violence in the Media - This can be presented as a single session or in a multi-session format and raises awareness of the methods by which media often distorts views of sex, relationships and gender stereotypes by using examples such as print advertising, songs, movies, video games, etc. to illustrate the impact media has on our society. This program is appropriate for grades 7 through adult. Violence Prevention Program for People with Disabilities - This is a four session program that teaches the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships and empowers victims to report abuse. This program is appropriate for individuals with disabilities from youth to adult. MVP Strategies - This is a three session program that trains male and female students to speak out against rape, bullying, dating violence, sexual harassment, and all forms of violence by utilizing the bystander approach, which empowers bystanders to confront abusive peers. The interactive dialogue helps create a male peer culture whereby violent behavior is socially unacceptable. This program is appropriate for grade 7 through adult. Aggressors, victims, and bystanders - This is an evidence-based, multi-session program that teaches students to examine their own roles as aggressors, victims, and bystanders, and to help the students develop problem solving skills and new ways of thinking about how they can respond to conflict in each of these roles in ways that are non-violent. This program is appropriate for grades 7 through 12. Tough Guise: Violence/Media and the Crisis in Masculinity - This is a single or multi-session program that examines how our society has been conditioned to view masculinity and provides information on gender violence. This program is appropriate for grades 7 through adult. Bully Proof - This is a multi-session program and meets several of the frameworks as established by the Arkansas State Department of Education. Bully Proof discusses teasing, bullying, and other various levels/degrees of bullying. The facilitator utilizes role play, hand outs, and other techniques to reduce bullying within the school system. This program is appropriate for fourth and fifth grade students. |
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