MORE THAN AWARENESS...
ACTION
The Advocates’ prevention staff and peer educators teach community members, children, and teens how to build and maintain healthy relationships with their families, peers, and partners through evidence-based, best practice presentations and workshops to youth and adults. We believe that education is the key to creating safer communities. We create positive social change by empowering bystanders, advocating for and collaborating with youth, and engaging communities.
Keep an eye out for The Advocates’ Community Events: From Awareness to Action
A cornerstone of The Advocates’ mission is preventing abuse before it starts. We do so by providing education and outreach programs in Blaine, Custer, Lincoln and Camas counties with the goal of giving local youth the tools they need to build and maintain healthy relationships.
Beyond the classroom, we engage community organizations on a variety of levels to support prevention. We provide awareness trainings for local non-profits and collaborate with community partners and law enforcement to provide a safety net of resources.
ABUSE PREVENTION WORKSHOPS
But, I Love Them
In this interactive workshop, we discuss teen dating abuse, brain development and ways to talk with your teen about healthy relationships. Participants will then have an opportunity to practice with real life scenarios.
Voices of Courage
We provide participants with simple strategies they can use to stop bullying, domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault when they see it. Then practice those strategies with real life scenarios. This practice gives participants the chance to find a bystander intervention technique that works for them. We also demonstrate how speaking up can create positive social change in schools, neighborhoods, and communities.
Teens and Technology
Along with The Advocates' Teen Interns, the ETCs, we talk with parents and guardians about what is trending on social media. This workshop will prepare parents and caregivers to talk about healthy social media habits with their teens.
Sexual Harassment Demystified
This presentation is not about laws surrounding sexual harassment, but about behaviors that constitute sexual harassment. We learn subtle and not so subtle ways that sexual harassment can interrupt the workplace environment.
If These Walls Could Talk
Have lunch with The Advocates' and learn about the wide variety of services and support we offer. From emergency safe housing, to community and school education, to financial literacy classes, The Advocates saves lives and changes futures.
PROGRAMMING FOR YOUTH
Every Teen Counts
(the ETCs)
The Advocates hires teen interns from across the Wood River Valley. They are healthy relationship peer educators and influencers who inspire teens to use their voice, stand up, speak out, and create positive cultural change. They do this through, peer-education, awareness campaigns and healthy relationship events.
It is Not Your Fault
These workshops are critical for all children. Each student learns important concepts to keep them safe if violence occurs in their home.
Building Blocks
Students explore concepts such as trust, communication, and safety in the context of relationships with their parents, teachers, coaches, and friends.
This is an interactive workshop in which students learn to define personal boundaries, decide for themselves what is and is not acceptable, and practice setting those boundaries.
Speak Your Boundaries
Got F.R.I.E.S.?
Understanding Consent. We teach healthy ways to communicate boundaries. Then, practice setting those boundaries with real life scenarios.
Voices of Courage
We teach respect, acceptance and individuality in all relationships. We provide the students with simple strategies they can use to interrupt bullying, teen dating abuse, harassment and stalking when they see them. They practice these strategies in skits they design, which cements their learning, and gives them the chance to find their own bystander intervention style. We also demonstrate how speaking up can create positive social change in schools, neighborhoods and communities.
Algorithm IRL
Students learn how to recognize bullying, harassment, sexual harassment and stalking on social media. They also learn safe and effective ways to interrupt harmful online behavior.
How to Report a Title IX Violation
We are committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful environment for everyone. Discrimination based on sex, race, color, national origin, disability, or other protected characteristics is not tolerated.
If you believe you’ve experienced sex based discrimination or witnessed discrimination, harassment, or retaliation, you have the right to report it. Click here for more information. Click here to make a report
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