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YOUTH MENTORS PROGRAM |
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Young Adults: Community Role Models Mission: To provide domestic and sexual violence prevention through early intervention. How: This program consists of using young adults from the community high school to provide role models to middle school students. The mentors will work with faculty to help engage middle school students with school approved prevention education. The main focus is on being respectful and utilizing positive communication skills. A majority of the curriculum will be from the Choose Respect Initiative. The Choose Respect Initiative was founded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It is targeted at youth between the ages of 11 to 14. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is helping to initiate this program throughout Kansas.
For more information, please contact DoVES at our toll-free number, 1-800-367-7075 or:
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Domestic Violence Emergency Services PO Box 262 Atchison, KS 66002
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DoVES, INC. |
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TOLL FREE HOT LINE: 1-800-367-7075 Hotline: 913-367-0363 Business: 913-367-0365 E-mail: doves@dovesatchisonks.org |
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Visit the following links:
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www.kdhe.org Kansas Department of Health and Environment Homepage www.chooserespect.org Choose Respect Homepage www.netsmartz.org is about social networking and has sections for parents, law, educators, teens, and children. Perhaps best for parents and younger children as its main focus is on safety in general.
www.nsteens.org is a hip site about social networking that is made in a techno type of background. It is very informative and has various activities on it.
www.take25.org is great for parents on how to talk about abuse. www.loveisnotabuse.org is the Liz Claiborne site about dating violence, expecially teens that is great for educators and parents. www.loveisrespect.org is the teen version of loveisnotabuse.org. It has a mini-quiz and good information. www.chooserespect.org has great 4-7 grade, some 8th grade information on it that is relatively hip and is responded well to by younger ‘daters’. www.teenangels.org is a FBI ran teen site that trains teens and tweens (9-12 years) on safety and cyber-violence. Schools can start their own chapter as well. www.promotetruth.org is a teen website about sexual violence. It is designed for youth 14 and over (in my opinion) and it has a section for parents and educators as well. www.teenpcar.com is ran by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape is set to hip-hop music (they sell the CD) that encourages respect and safety. It has quizzes for guys and girls. It also has survivor stories, safety tips, polls (and results), and for 5 dollars you can get a magazine and two CD’s. www.teensthinkwhat.com is the parent’s site that links to www.teenpcar.com . It has true statistics gathered and information about how to talk with teens. www.wherestheoutrage.org is a great website for both parents, educators, and teens. The material is very raw and will probably not be accepted as age appropriate by most schools for those under 16. It does, however, have a ‘Wall of Shame’ that lists celebrities who have committed sexual violence that could be used with various groups. www.mencanstoprape.org has information that is specific to young men. It is a great resource for everyone, although perhaps set more towards educators and parents. However, it is a great way to show men getting involved to youth. |
