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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

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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.

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
• CD’s 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