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SEXUAL AGGRESSION 101 FOR
MEN AND WOMEN
Our most popular program,
outstanding for fall orientation. This engaging program combines
music, theatre and storytelling, and provides participants with a
candid and respectful discussion regarding dating, communication,
relationships and sexual assault. Topics covered include:
- stalking and sexual
harassment
- alcohol/drug use
- what constitutes
acquaintance rape and
- high-risk situations for
women and men.
Inspires participants to take
active leadership in preventing sexual aggression while gaining a
sense of empathy and personal responsibility. Also explores what
students across the nation are thinking and saying regarding dating
violence. This program received outstanding evaluations at the
largest student health conference in the world!
THE MVP PROGRAM: MEN'S
VIOLENCE PREVENTION
Most men are repulsed by
violence against women. As natural allies with women, they can break
the cycle of male violence. The program inspires men's innate
benevolence and teaches them assault prevention skills.
With his engaging and humorous
speaking style Todd:
- Shows how homophobia and
pornography contribute to male violence and sexual assault
- Illustrates how the campus
culture of alcohol use and sexual assault are connected
- Teaches men practical
skills to challenge and stop stalking and sexual assault.
- Discusses how coercion and
manipulation contribute to rape
To download a promotional
flyer (PDF format) for this program, CLICK HERE
SEXUAL AGGRESSION 101
TRAINING OF TRAINERS
This workshop introduces
participants to a variety of creative ways to facilitate campus
violence prevention programs. Combining lecture, experiential
exercises and interactive discussion, Todd presents the scholarly
bases that underpin the program, and the practical application of
numerous engaging techniques for working with mixed gender
audiences.
Topics covered include:
- alcohol/date rape drugs
- sex role stereotypes
- masculinity
- homophobia
- pornography
- sexual harassment
- defining sexual assault
Excellent for peer educators,
school staff, community educators, and counselors, anyone who wants
to facilitate interactive and successful programs. Includes a
training manual, and a program evaluation strategy.
Click here to read an in-depth
description of this program.
SEXUAL AGGRESSION 101 FOR
WOMEN
What every woman needs to know
about sexual assault prevention.
- What are high risk
situations?
- Why are first year college
women at greater risk for sexual assault?
- How can focusing solely on
communication actually harm women?
- Learn exit/escape
strategies through interactive discussion and role play.
Learn the behavior patterns
and techniques that virtually all offenders use and strategies
designed to stop them.
GEAR UP WITH MUSIC
for middle/high schools
Gear Up With Music gives
students the tools to create life-affirming poetry and songs that
examine the personal challenges they face at home, at school and
with their peers. The program integrates music into core curricula
to increase individual academic achievement and improve student’s
opportunity for future success. The curriculum includes a series of
simple, hands-on lesson plans focusing topics such as bullying,
alcohol and drugs, cultural awareness and creating the peaceable
school. Each lesson is designed for a single class period and is
reinforced by a youth-created song on the subject.
This workshop will show how:
- youth culture’s own
language can be used to promote long-term student involvement in
creating peaceable schools and communities
- to integrate music in
existing courses to improve writing and literacy skills
- students become peer
educators within their school and community
- to extend music into
school-wide prevention activities including developing a media
campaign
- the program involves
parents as allies and stakeholders.
Does it work? Gear Up with
Music has been commissioned by The U.S. Department of Education, The
National Geographic Society, the National Science Foundation, The
University of Oregon and The National Coalition Against Domestic
Violence. The Gear Up With Music video "Hands Are Not For Hurting"
was commissioned by Washington Governor Chris Gregoire. The program
has been successfully implemented with Mexican-American youth in one
of San Diego’s poorest middle schools, on the Yakima Indian
reservation in rural Washington, and with African-American students
in Tacoma, WA.
Workshop Agenda:
- Program overview
- The programs philosophical
and scholarly basis
- Recruiting students as peer
educators
- Teachers workshop topic
- Students workshop journal
writing process
- How journal writings become
song drafts
- Students grouped into
songwriting teams
- Song-writing workshop,
introduction of music instrumentals
- Music teams collaborate,
write, edit and rewrite their songs
- Teams practice songs and
record their music
- Music teams perform song to
peers, classrooms and school assemblies.
- High school teams present
to middle school students who present to K-6 students
- Youth receive copy of their
songs on mastered CD
- CDs are extended into
classrooms, school PA announcements, homes, radio
stations and communities.
- Program sustainability as
teams continue to perform/ mentor peers
- Involving parents as allies
and stakeholders
- Outcomes and
evaluations of the program
- Implementing the program in
your school Identification of future topics and activities: e.g.,
tobacco use, suicide prevention, domestic violence, gangs, drug
and meth use, state-wide youth media contest
