A. Prevention program X
1. Introduce Program X
Safe Dates is a school based program designed to prevent psychological, sexual, and emotional abuse on dates or between teenagers involved in a dating relationship. This is done by raising awareness of what constitutes a healthy dating relationship verses an abusive relationship, raising awareness of dating abuse and its causes and consequences, equipping students with the skills and resources they need to save themselves and those in need from an abusive relationship, and by helping teens develop healthy dating relationships through positive communication, anger management, and conflict resolution.
2. Risk factors that program x focuses on
The risk factors the program focuses on are changing norms for dating violence, gender stereotyping, conflict management skills, awareness of the resources available and knowledge about how to get help. The main goal of the program is to change adolescent dating violence and gender role norms, improve conflict resolution skills, initiate help seeking behavior for community resources in both perpetrators and victims of abusive relationships, and improve the skills needed to help those in need of aid from an abusive relationship. The program also features substance abuse due to the fact that it often correlates with high amounts of violence.
3. components
The program is composed of nine 50 minute sessions, a 45 minute theatrical play and a poster contest. The nine 50 minute sessions are composed as follows:
Session 1: Defining Caring Relationships
Students are introduced to Safe Dates by playing a bingo game and taking part in a class discussion about how they would like to be treated in a dating relationship.
Session 2: Defining Dating Abuse
Students clearly define what dating abuse is by reviewing statistics and discussing scenarios.
Session 3: Why Do People Abuse?
Students take part in small and large group discussions and review scenarios to help them identify the causes and consequences of dating abuse.
Session 4: How to Help Friends
Students are introduced to “Friend’s Wheel,” take part in a decision-making exercise, and read a dramatic piece to learn why it is difficult for victims of abuse to leave an abusive relationships and what they can do to help their friends and acquaintances if he or she is in an abusive relationship.
Session 5: Helping Friends
Students perform a skit and are introduced to stories to help them practice effective skills for helping their friends who are victims of abuse or confronting those who are perpetrators of abuse.
Session 6: Overcoming Gender Stereotypes
Students complete a writing exercise, take part in small group discussions, view scenarios, and learn about how gender stereotypes can affect dating relationships and how to avoid using it.
Session 7: Equal Power through Communication
Students are taught eight skills for effective communication and these skills are put to practice through role plays and skits.
Session 8: How We Feel, How We Deal
Students pursue a diary, discuss a piece entitled “ hot buttons,” and learn effective ways to recognize and handle their behavior in order to prevent it from leading into abusive behavior that many couples struggle with.
Session 9: Preventing Sexual Assault
Students take a quiz, participate in a caucus, discuss with a panel of their peers and learn about the issue of sexual assault and discuss the measures necessary for prevention.
Theatrical Play
The play is entitled “There Is No Excuse For Dating Abuse,” and is 45 minutes in length. The play is not performed by professionals, but by high school drama students. Small group discussions are lead by the actors about the statistics that are presented on dating abuse, sexual abuse, and psychological abuse, following the performance of the play. Family members are also engaged in the program through parent letters and brochures.
Poster Contest
A poster contest is held at the end of the program to help students reinforce the concepts they learned from the program and also to help them educate others in the knowledge they have gained about dating violence. This part of the program is mandatory and students have the option of using these posters in a feature presentation for community groups or various schools. The posters are created and hung in school hallways and community buildings such as libraries, malls, and city halls.
4. Intended audience
The program is intended for middle school and high school students ages 12-18. Both males and females participate in this program and there was proven effectiveness for students of African American and Caucasian decent. The program can be initiated through a councilor as part of a counseling or educational program in school or for faith based communities and after school programs or community youth enrichment organizations such as “YMCA” and “Girl Scouts.” Even more effective is using the program for people who have already committed dating violence or undergone dating violence. These places would include domestic violence crisis
centers, juvenile diversion programs, and victim support group centers.
5. Methods- presentations, interactive experiences, media, etc. and length
The methods used in this program included presentations such as statistics, scenarios, and role playing, interactive experiences such as large and small group discussions, panel of peers, games, decision making exercises, the use of media through a theatrical play about dating violence that is performed by high school drama students, and academic exercises such as a diary, readings, and a writing exercise. The interactive experiences, academic exercises, and presentations are methods that are featured in the nine 50 minute sessions and the presentation of statistics and interactive experiences of large group discussions are a part of the 45 minute theatrical performance.
6. ( if applicable) Program evaluation and effectiveness
There is evidence that the program is effective because Safe Dates is researched based program. The program was effective in preventing and reducing perpetration among adolescents that were engaging in violence with their dates. Adolescents who participated in the program also reported less acceptance of dating violence, stronger communication and anger management skills, less of a tendency to gender stereotype, and had a greater awareness of the resources available for them from community services, compared to those who did not participate in the program. Students also reported a 56% to 92% reduction in reports of physical, serious physical and sexual dating violence victimization and perpetration after a four year follow up.
1. Introduce Program X
Safe Dates is a school based program designed to prevent psychological, sexual, and emotional abuse on dates or between teenagers involved in a dating relationship. This is done by raising awareness of what constitutes a healthy dating relationship verses an abusive relationship, raising awareness of dating abuse and its causes and consequences, equipping students with the skills and resources they need to save themselves and those in need from an abusive relationship, and by helping teens develop healthy dating relationships through positive communication, anger management, and conflict resolution.
2. Risk factors that program x focuses on
The risk factors the program focuses on are changing norms for dating violence, gender stereotyping, conflict management skills, awareness of the resources available and knowledge about how to get help. The main goal of the program is to change adolescent dating violence and gender role norms, improve conflict resolution skills, initiate help seeking behavior for community resources in both perpetrators and victims of abusive relationships, and improve the skills needed to help those in need of aid from an abusive relationship. The program also features substance abuse due to the fact that it often correlates with high amounts of violence.
3. components
The program is composed of nine 50 minute sessions, a 45 minute theatrical play and a poster contest. The nine 50 minute sessions are composed as follows:
Session 1: Defining Caring Relationships
Students are introduced to Safe Dates by playing a bingo game and taking part in a class discussion about how they would like to be treated in a dating relationship.
Session 2: Defining Dating Abuse
Students clearly define what dating abuse is by reviewing statistics and discussing scenarios.
Session 3: Why Do People Abuse?
Students take part in small and large group discussions and review scenarios to help them identify the causes and consequences of dating abuse.
Session 4: How to Help Friends
Students are introduced to “Friend’s Wheel,” take part in a decision-making exercise, and read a dramatic piece to learn why it is difficult for victims of abuse to leave an abusive relationships and what they can do to help their friends and acquaintances if he or she is in an abusive relationship.
Session 5: Helping Friends
Students perform a skit and are introduced to stories to help them practice effective skills for helping their friends who are victims of abuse or confronting those who are perpetrators of abuse.
Session 6: Overcoming Gender Stereotypes
Students complete a writing exercise, take part in small group discussions, view scenarios, and learn about how gender stereotypes can affect dating relationships and how to avoid using it.
Session 7: Equal Power through Communication
Students are taught eight skills for effective communication and these skills are put to practice through role plays and skits.
Session 8: How We Feel, How We Deal
Students pursue a diary, discuss a piece entitled “ hot buttons,” and learn effective ways to recognize and handle their behavior in order to prevent it from leading into abusive behavior that many couples struggle with.
Session 9: Preventing Sexual Assault
Students take a quiz, participate in a caucus, discuss with a panel of their peers and learn about the issue of sexual assault and discuss the measures necessary for prevention.
Theatrical Play
The play is entitled “There Is No Excuse For Dating Abuse,” and is 45 minutes in length. The play is not performed by professionals, but by high school drama students. Small group discussions are lead by the actors about the statistics that are presented on dating abuse, sexual abuse, and psychological abuse, following the performance of the play. Family members are also engaged in the program through parent letters and brochures.
Poster Contest
A poster contest is held at the end of the program to help students reinforce the concepts they learned from the program and also to help them educate others in the knowledge they have gained about dating violence. This part of the program is mandatory and students have the option of using these posters in a feature presentation for community groups or various schools. The posters are created and hung in school hallways and community buildings such as libraries, malls, and city halls.
4. Intended audience
The program is intended for middle school and high school students ages 12-18. Both males and females participate in this program and there was proven effectiveness for students of African American and Caucasian decent. The program can be initiated through a councilor as part of a counseling or educational program in school or for faith based communities and after school programs or community youth enrichment organizations such as “YMCA” and “Girl Scouts.” Even more effective is using the program for people who have already committed dating violence or undergone dating violence. These places would include domestic violence crisis
centers, juvenile diversion programs, and victim support group centers.
5. Methods- presentations, interactive experiences, media, etc. and length
The methods used in this program included presentations such as statistics, scenarios, and role playing, interactive experiences such as large and small group discussions, panel of peers, games, decision making exercises, the use of media through a theatrical play about dating violence that is performed by high school drama students, and academic exercises such as a diary, readings, and a writing exercise. The interactive experiences, academic exercises, and presentations are methods that are featured in the nine 50 minute sessions and the presentation of statistics and interactive experiences of large group discussions are a part of the 45 minute theatrical performance.
6. ( if applicable) Program evaluation and effectiveness
There is evidence that the program is effective because Safe Dates is researched based program. The program was effective in preventing and reducing perpetration among adolescents that were engaging in violence with their dates. Adolescents who participated in the program also reported less acceptance of dating violence, stronger communication and anger management skills, less of a tendency to gender stereotype, and had a greater awareness of the resources available for them from community services, compared to those who did not participate in the program. Students also reported a 56% to 92% reduction in reports of physical, serious physical and sexual dating violence victimization and perpetration after a four year follow up.
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