This presentation is part of the Family Life Education Teacher Capacity Program

1. Preventing and Responding to
Sexual Violence

2. Agenda
8:00 WELCOME
8:30 Limitations
9:00 Recognize and Report
9:45 The Hidden Problem
10:00 BREAK
10:15 Rape Tag
11:00 The Social Network
11:45 Reflection and Evaluation
12:00 ADJOURN

3. Welcome
INTRODUCTIONS AND
OVERVIEW

4. Workshop Goals
• Increase their knowledge of sexual
violence
• Explore the impact of sexual violence
• Increase skills for responding to sexual
violence
• Identify responses to and messaging for
the prevention of sexual violence

5. Workshop Objectives
• Describe the scope of sexual violence
including physical and behavioral
indicators, suspected case criteria, and
reporting procedures
• Describe the process for reporting
suspected sexual violence
• Identify the stages of grooming
• Identify strategies to respond to and
prevent sexual violence

6. Introductions
• Facilitator(s)
• Staff
• Participants
– Name
– Grade/Level
– School Affiliation

7. Working Agreement
• Maintain confidentiality • Avoid making assumptions
• Respect each other’s point of about other members of the
view; recognize that we all group
have some biases • Share responsibility for what
• Speak for yourself—use ―I‖ gets learned today
language; take some risks to be • Ask any questions--there are no
honest dumb questions
• Be nonjudgmental; no put- • Share the time; participate as
downs; be constructive while much as possible
giving each other feedback • ELMO (Enough, lets move on)
• Listen with an open mind • Use discretion with self-
• Recognize that some conflict disclosure
can be helpful and that we • Have fun
should not always avoid it • The Vegas Rule (What happens
• Pass if you feel uncomfortable in Vegas . . .)

8. Warm-Up
LIMITATIONS

9. Limitations Activity
• Divide into small groups
• Each group should choose a
facilitator, recorder and reporter
• In your small group brainstorm:
– What things in our student’s lives do we have no
control over (e.g. what a student does while at
home, on the bus, at a park, with friends, etc.)
• Record your brainstorming and be prepared
to share with the large group

10. Lecturette
RECOGNIZE AND REPORT

11. Types of Sexual Abuse
• Incest
• Rape
• Intercourse
• Oral-Genital Contact
• Fondling
• Sexual Propositions or Enticement
• Indecent Exposure
• Child Pornography
• Child Prostitution

12. A combination or pattern
of indicators should alert
you to the possibility of
sexual abuse in both
male and female children.

13. Child Indicators
Physical Behavioral
• Has difficulty walking or sitting • Demonstrates an extreme fear
• Has torn, stained, or bloody of males (or females)
underclothing • Bizarre or unusual sexual
• Has pain or itching in genital behavior or knowledge
area • Has a sudden drop in school
• Has bruises or bleeding in performance
genital and/or anal areas • Seems threatened or afraid of
• Has an STD (especially pre- physical contact
teens) • Exhibits delinquent behavior
• Becomes pregnant at a young • May attempt suicide or other
age self-injury behavior

14. Questionable
Abuse and Neglect Situations
• Corporal Punishment
• Distinguishing Abuse from Accident
– Location of Injury(s)
– Number and Frequency of Injury(s)
– Size and Shape of Injury(s)
– Feasibility of Injury(s)
• Unsupervised or ―Latchkey‖ Children
• Failure to Obtain Medical Care

15. Details of Case
• Name, Address, and Telephone Number of the Child
and Parent(s) or guardian(s)
• Child’s birthdate or age, sex and race
• Names and ages of other persons who live with the
child and that relationship
• Name, Address, and Telephone of Suspected Abuse
• Nature and Extent of the Abuse
• Language or Developmental Needs of the Family
• Disability status of the child
• Any other pertinent information
• Your Name, Address, and Phone Number

16. Reporting Concerns
• Belief that nothing will be done?
• Will my name be revealed as the reporter?
• Can Parents see the child abuse or neglect
records?
• What if I do not report?
– Liability
– Penalty
• What if I am not sure?
• What if it occurred in the past?
• Should I tell the parents I made a report?

17. Responding to a Suspected Victim
Do
– Find a private place to talk
– Put the child at ease by sitting near him/her, not
behind a desk.
– Ask permission before touching the child.
– Reassure the child that he/she is not in trouble.
– Keep your own feelings under control.
– Use open-ended questions
– Use the child’s vocabulary.
– Let the child know what you will do
– Support the child

18. Responding to a Suspected Victim
Do NOT
– Press for details beyond what the child is
willing to share.
– Ask ―why questions‖. Promise not to tell
anyone
– Ask leading or suggestive questions.
– Make angry or critical comments about the
alleged perpetrator. Disclose information
indiscriminately
– Make the child feel different or singled out.

19. 6 Stages of Grooming
Grooming is the process by which an offender draws
a victim into a sexual relationship and maintains that
relationship in secrecy.
1. Targeting the Victim
2. Gaining the Victim’s Trust
3. Filling a Need
4. Isolating the Child
5. Sexualizing the Relationship
6. Maintaining Control

20. Critical Messages –Female Victims
• You are not to blame.
• Healing is helped by talking and learning about
sexuality in an open and honest way.
• The female sexual and reproductive system can be
a positive part of life as it can provide pleasure and
create life.
• Girls have the right to say ―no‖ or ―yes‖ to sexual
contact and have their choice respected.
• It's OK to be confused about dating or whether to
have a sexual relationship.
• It's OK to ask a friend, a sister or brother, and
older teen or a trusted adult if you have questions.

21. Critical Messages – Male Victims
• Sexual abuse happens to boys too.
• You are not to blame.
• Healing is helped by talking and learning about sexuality
in an open and honest way.
• A person’s sexual orientation is not affected by sexual
abuse.
• Boys can be forced or pressured into sex by females.
• Boys usually cannot control when they get erections.
• Most boys who are sexually abused do not become
offenders.

22. Discussion
THE HIDDEN PROBLEM

23. Human Trafficking
• What is Human Trafficking?
• What is the difference between Trafficking
and Smuggling?
• What are the types of Human Trafficking?
• What are the signs of a victim of Child
Trafficking?
• What are resources for more information
on Human Trafficking?

24. Human Trafficking
• Form of modern-day slavery; widespread
throughout the United States
• Largely a hidden social problem; not just
forced sex work
• 18,000 and 20,000 victims trafficked into
the United States annually
• Both Domestic and International aspects

25. Trafficking versus Smuggling
Human Trafficking Human Smuggling
• Victims are • Individuals consent to being
forced, defrauded, or coerced smuggled.
into trafficking. Even if victims
initially offer consent, that • Smuggling is a crime
consent is rendered meaningless committed against a country
by the actions of the traffickers and its borders.
to exploit them for
labor, services, or commercial • Smuggling involves the illegal
sex. transport of an individual
• Human trafficking is a crime across a national border.
committed against an individual. Smuggling is always
• Trafficking need not entail the transnational.
physical movement of a person.

26. Types of Human Trafficking
Sex Trafficking Labor Trafficking
• the • the
recruitment, harboring, trans recruitment, harboring, trans
portation, provision, or portation, provision, or
obtaining of a person for the obtaining of a person for
purpose of a commercial sex labor or services, through the
act, in which the commercial use of force, fraud, or
sex act is induced by coercion for the purpose of
force, fraud, or coercion. or subjection to involuntary
in which the person induced servitude, peonage, debt
to perform such act has not bondage, or slavery.
attained 18 years of age.

27. Potential Signs of a Victim
• Has unexplained absences from school for a period of time
• Demonstrates and inability to attend school on a regular basis
• Chronically runs away from home
• Makes references to frequent travel to other cities
• Exhibits bruises or other physical trauma, withdrawn
behavior, depression, or fear
• Lack control over her or his schedule or identification
documents
• Is hungry-malnourished or inappropriately dressed (based on
weather conditions and surroundings)
• Shows signs of drug addiction

28. Demographic Characteristics
• Victims of labor trafficking • The race and ethnicity of
rarely identified themselves victims of labor and sex
as victims trafficking are
• Victims of labor trafficking diverse, although Asian and
are as likely to be male as Hispanic represent the
they are to be female, but highest number for each type
victims of sex trafficking of trafficking.
are predominantly female • Victim’s race and ethnicity
• Victims of labor and sex depend upon the task or
trafficking tend to be position within an
younger than perpetrators organization.
of each, with most victims • Both labor and sex
under the age of 30. trafficking victims tend to be
from other countries and/or
from another country via
another state.

29. More Information
• ―Finding Victims of Human Trafficking‖ by Phyllis J. Newton;
Timothy M. Mulcahy; Susan E. Martin; available for download or
viewing from the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
at:
– http://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/victims/humantrafficking/documents/N
ORC_Finding_Victims_Of_HT.pdf
• US Department of Education, Office of Safe and Healthy Students
Website on Human Trafficking with more community information
and awareness toolkits
– http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oese/oshs/factsheet.html
• The Polaris Project; The National Human Trafficking Resource
Center
– http://www.polarisproject.org/what-we-do/national-human-trafficking-
hotline/the-nhtrc/overview

30. Case Study
“RAPE TAG”

31. Facts on the Ground
Read Handout ―Facts on the Ground‖
– How would you react to the situation?
– How should a School Division/Personnel
respond?
– What would your immediate steps be?

32. In the spotlight
Read ―Rape Tag: Huffington Post Article‖
– How do you think the school will respond to
the media exposure on this topic?
– What information will be used to evaluate the
school response?

33. Evaluating the Response
Read Handout ―Rape Tag: School Response‖
– What do you think of the school’s response?
– What sticks out to you when you read the
response?
– What about the format and design of the
response?
– Imagine being a parent, how would you receive
this letter if you knew nothing of the situation?
– How could the response to the entire situation
been improved?

34. Activity
THE SOCIAL NETWORK

35. The Social Network
• Divide into three groups.
• Each group will be assigned one of three methods
students could use to harass one another:
– In Person
– Cellular
– Virtual
• Choose a facilitator, recorder, and reporter and
complete the appropriate handout for your assigned
group.
• Use the Small Group Discussion Guide for your group
work
• Be prepared to present your findings to the large group

36. Empathy and Compassion
Why might
children and young
adults not report
sexual harassment?

37. Questions and Evaluations