Prevention School-based Curricula
The Healthy Relationships Project is a child sexual abuse prevention program for schools and youth serving organizations. It is trauma informed, developmentally appropriate, and includes parent engagement and training for school educators and staff.
“The Healthy Relationships Project © (HRP) is a health-based, developmentally-appropriate, trauma-informed childhood sexual abuse prevention curriculum that includes faculty and staff training; parent events; parent newsletters for each lesson; and student lessons. The HRP has three components: Care for Kids (Pre-K to 2nd Grade); We Care Elementary (3rd grade to 6th grade); and SAFE-T (7th and 8th grades).”
Care for Kids © topics include communication skills, nurturing skills (empathy), body parts, developing positive attitudes toward sexuality, and understanding of healthy boundaries. The student lessons reflect the way children learn at this developmental phase through activity. Each of the six lessons lists the National Health Standards that are covered in the lesson.
We Care Elementary © topics include self-esteem, support systems, asking for help, understanding feelings, responding to feelings, empathy, body language, personal boundaries, respecting other’s boundaries, coping and accepting no, sexuality, sexual harassment, and adult support. The lessons include activities to anchor the concepts. Each of the six lessons lists the National Health Standards that are covered in the lesson.
SAFE-T (Sexual Abuse Free Environment for Teens) © topics include support; coping; empathy; respecting boundaries; flirting, joking, and sexual harassment; taking responsibility; and bystanders. The lessons are interactive, and a final project for each grade level encourages student creative learning. Each of the 10 lessons for 7th grade and 10 different lessons for 8th grade lists the National Health Standards that are covered in the lesson. This curriculum has been rigorously evaluated, click the button below to learn more.
Project SELFIE (Safe Expression onLine for Internet Empowerment) © topics include the destinction between consent, cooperation, and compliance in digital interactions; the laws on sexting by minors; how to cope with peer pressure; ways to respond to requests to sext; ways to respond to unsolicited sexts; and how to be an empowered bystander. Through two interactive, developmentally appropriate, and trauma informed presentations, youth learn how to prevent sexting and respond to concerning digital communications. This program also includes an adult training for parents, caregivers, and adults who work with children such as school personnel or professionals at youth serving organizations. This two-hour long, interactive, and trauma informed adult training, called TECHNICOOL: Keeping Kids Safe on the Internet, prepares adults to protect youth from adolescent sexting, online grooming, online pornography, and in person acquaintances of youth who use digital communications as a grooming tactic.