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cherry_hill__fellow_communities.pptxCherry Hill & Fellow Communities
Sexual Assault Prevention Program
Before & after Abuse
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Step 1: Uniting our Community
Monthly community meetings
Selecting chairs for the meetings
Build relationships
Inviting educational speakers
Informing our neighbors
Agreeing upon a plan
Involving & educating our youth
Safe havens
Ongoing therapy support
Having a plan to go with, and building from there is the best way to become an active community in supporting one another. It is important that one's gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual preference are set aside and not judged. Each person should be treated with respect. The same respect that you would want to be treated with.
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Step 2: Protecting our Community
Protect others & their children & they will protect you and yours…
Be aware of your surroundings
Be willing to support those in need
Help educate our community
Keep aware of convicted sex offenders in the community
Encourage others to reduce violence
What is our job when working with and for the community? It's a win win when you put it in terms of you scratch my back I'll scratch your.
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Step 3: Community Work
Sexual violence means that someone forces or manipulates someone else into unwanted sexual activity without their consent. Reasons someone might not consent include fear, age, illness, disability, and/or influence of alcohol or other drugs. Anyone can experience sexual violence including: children, teens, adults, and elders. Those who sexually abuse can be acquaintances, family members, trusted individuals or strangers.
If one does not fully understand, they can not help another and some individuals may have grown up to this behavior being normal and not know any different.
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Forms of Sexual Violence
Rape or sexual assault
Child sexual assault and incest
Intimate partner sexual assault
Unwanted sexual contact/touching
Sexual harassment
Sexual exploitation
Showing one’s genitals/ naked body to another w/o consent
Masturbating in public
Watching someone in a private act w/o their knowledge or consent
Reality is that some individuals do not fully understand what is considered Sexual Violence.
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Understanding the importance… What are the benefits of these programs?
Researchers have consistently found a number of benefits to child sexual abuse prevention programs
Increased knowledge about child sexual abuse (Davis & Gidycz, 2000; Repucci & Herman, 1991; Rispens, Aleman, & Goudena, 1997).
Increased self-protective knowledge and skills, and increased use of these self-protective skills (Finkelhor, Asdigian, & Dzuiba-Leatherman, 1995a, 1995b; Rispens et al., 1997, Topping & Barron, 2009).
Earlier disclosure of abuse, which could prevent further abuse from occurring and allow the child to be treated for the abuse (Gibson & Leitenberg, 2000).
Shorter duration of abuse (Gibson & Leitenberg, 2000).
Increased positive feelings about self and decreased negative feelings about self (Topping & Barron, 2009).
Educating and understanding why this violence takes place and how to get away from it and know the signs is very important. When facts are in black and white it seems more real to some.
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Community Resources and Help
School Counselors and school resource centers
Local Abuse counselors, therapists and doctors that specialize
RAINN (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network)
Community Resource Center
Youth and Preventative Services
Child and Family Services Agency
Safe Shores
Outreach Program
School counselors can help and recommend further treatment. Abuse therapists and doctors that specialize in an area are going to be more effective than just a general therapist or doctor. RAINN is national, however it is also set up in the local community. Community resource centers have their own classes and support groups. Youth preventative services is for all youth; if abused or to educate in hopes to reduce the chances of abuse or long term abuse. Child and family services can help with treatment as well as housing and finances. Safe Shores is a nonprofit Agency that provides safety, housing, therapy of all kinds, education, and financial help and helps a victim get back on their feet. The Outreach Program is another program that mimics Safe Shores.
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References
Archer, J. (2004). Sex Differences in Aggression in Real-World Settings: A Meta-Analytic Review: Review of General Psychology. doi: 10.1037/1089-2680.8.4.291
Sexual Assault Services-360 Communities. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.360communities.org/index.php/violence-prevention-intervention/sexual-assault-services/
Types of Sexual Violence. RAIIN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network). (n.d.).
Retrieved from https://www.raiin.orgget-information/types-of-sexual-assault
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