Today we’re going to talk about sexual violence prevention both through general means and through sexual education. We’re going to discuss a little bit about what sexual assault prevention is and what it is not. ⅕ women experience rape in their lifetime and about 80% of women experience some form of sexual assault in their life. The effect that sexual violence has on people can be devastating. 94% of survivors display PTSD from their experience and a third of survivors contemplate suicide, and then they are 10 times more likely to turn to substance abuse. Often preventing sexual violence focuses on the woman/victim, but another large portion of prevention is understanding the perpetrator and keeping them from becoming the type of person that would act out.

Getting more comfortable with this topic 2:13
The crisis center 6:46
Preventing sexual violence 8:11
Protective factors 12:34
Research on sex education 14:28
Quality sex education and what it is 16:12

“Protective factors can be anything from learning how to work through conflict peacefully and also seeing your caretaker, seeing your parents, or your family work through conflict in a peaceful and respectful way. That makes a huge difference to see those behaviors modeled. That’s how children learn.” 12:47