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Who Do You Tell?

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Description

The "Who Do You Tell?" Child Sexual Abuse Education Program was designed to teach elementary school aged children basic concepts to help them prevent and protect themselves from sexual abuse. The program aims to help students to learn to distinguish between inappropriate and appropriate types of touching. In addition, students are also instructed on methods to communicate instances of abuse to trusted adults. The program is conducted in two 45-minute sessions on consecutive days. In addition, parents are invited to attend an informational session that addresses program content and offers advice on how to speak with children about the covered topics. Teachers in participating schools also receive training on how to proceed should abuse be disclosed to them.

Goal / Mission

The goal of this program is to help students learn to identify and report sexual abuse.

Results / Accomplishments

Evaluations have found that the program does increase levels of awareness and knowledge about sexual abuse.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse
Primary Contact
Annemarie Koszegi, Program Manager
"Who Do You Tell?" Program
Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse
YWCA Mary Dover Building
7th Floor, 320 - 5th Avenue SE
Calgary, Alberta T2G 0E5
(403) 237-6905
info@calgarycasa.com
http://www.calgarycasa.com
Topics
Community / Social Environment
Community / Crime & Crime Prevention
Organization(s)
Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse
Source
Promising Practices Network
Date of publication
Nov 2001
Location
Calgary, Canada
For more details
http://www.promisingpractices.net/program.asp?prog...
Target Audience
Children

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A Good Idea meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program funding source, program implementation steps and outcomes.
  2. The program evaluation is limited to descriptive measure(s) of success/accomplishment (i.e., program participation rates, number of services/education sessions/radio messages provided). Note: oftentimes, the program has been newly implemented and a program evaluation has not yet been conducted. Programs that have not yet been evaluated, but which show promise in improving health or quality of life, are classified as Good Ideas until an evaluation is conducted.

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