Programs for Youth
All Resilience programs are conducted by trained professionals. Each 45-minute session is developmentally appropriate, highly interactive, and tailored for your group. Our programs are evidence-informed and we work to include multiple learning styles and educational best practices.
Youth Prevention Education
Prevention education is a critical component of reducing the risk of sexual violence. Resilience youth prevention education services are developmentally appropriate, highly interactive, and tailored to your needs. Our sessions are designed to be inclusive of multiple learning styles and incorporate
educational best practices. The length of lessons and weeks of residency can be adjusted as needed.
Grades K-2: “Roles & Body Rules”
Students will have a basic understanding of the private parts of the body and recognize safe and unsafe touches. They will learn to express their personal boundaries, model asking permission for safe touches, and identify five adults they feel safe to notify if they experience an unsafe touch. Students will engage in activities that introduce permission to touch, the “uh-oh feeling, bodily autonomy and safe adults. *Content may be added for students to be able to define gender roles and explain how they may be untrue and hurtful. (3-5 lessons, 30 minutes each)
Grades 3-5: “Respect & Response”
Students will categorize relationships (including friendships) as healthy, unhealthy, or abusive, and learn how to identify and report sexual abuse. They will be able to identify what the “uh-oh feeling” feels like in their bodies and think about selection of five safe adults they can talk to if they experience an unsafe touch. Students will learn to identify grooming and how to support a friend who may be experiencing grooming with an emphasis on how to be a good listener and how to report to a safe adult. *Content may be added for students to be able to define gender roles, and explain how they may be untrue and hurtful. (3-5 lessons, 60 minutes each)
Grades 6-8: “Making Schools Safe”
Students will explore boundaries, learn about passive vs. active ‘consent’ and speaking up when something doesn’t feel right. They will learn, and practice implementing, bystander intervention methods on both community and individual levels. Students will be empowered to claim autonomy over their bodies – identifying and demonstrating their bodily rights.*Content may be added on exploring gender in the eyes of the media by analyzing the way our culture informs our views of gender, sexuality, and relationships. (4-6 lessons, 60 minutes each)
Grades 9-12: “Catalyst for Change”
Students will be able to differentiate between consent culture and rape culture through exploring topics like power and control, teen dating violence, and navigating safe relationships online. Students will also explore rape culture’s relationship to gender and sexuality. Students will investigate concrete ways for interrupting harmful behaviors influenced by rape culture, and explore ways to engage in healthy relationships. *Content may be added that examines power dynamics within interpersonal and community violence. (6-8 lessons, 50 minutes each)
Teacher Trainings
Educators review the core concepts of Resilience youth curriculum, including consent, boundaries, child sexual abuse, power and control, grooming, and identification of safe adults/peers. We will discuss the warning signs of child sex abuse by age group and provide an overview of appropriate disclosure responses, options, rights, and services.
Parent / Caretaker Trainings
Caregivers will discuss things they can do to prevent child sexual abuse, including understanding consent and child abuse, recognizing signs of abuse, beginning conversations about sex and sexual abuse, and supporting youth survivors. We will provide an overview of appropriate disclosure responses, options, rights and services.
Teachers and caregivers are encouraged to continue the discussion before and after programming.
Ask us about our diverse learner curriculum and onsite support groups!
Resilience also offers trainings for professionals and parents. All of our educational programs are free or on a sliding scale.
To request a workshop, please contact our Director of Education and Training at dmackey@ourresilience.org.
