Resources

I have been looking up different resources that would be helpful for our project. I have found the following resourcesinformative and interesting:

• www.rainn.org - my favorite, gives good information, easy to understand
• nsopw.gov
• focus on the family.com - this website gives useful statistics about sexual abuse 
• www.stop it now.org
• Huffington Post - safe touch and not safe touch - better to teach children, vs. good and bad touch - not good to teach children, easy for children to misunderstand this language.
• Oprah clip - 4 things parents should know about sexual abuse
• 10 ways to talk to your children about sexual abuse
• www.childhelp.org - 3 main things to tell kids about sexual abuse:

1. Explain types of touch
2. Teach child to say "no"
3. Teach children to speak up

Within the next few weeks I will begin to facilitate an "Adults Molested As Children" group at my practicum. I have begun to study some information for this group that is informative. - Diana

Our in class discussion we talked about some of the different community resources that we could tap into. We talked about the school districts and that they may have some programs in place that we could incorporate as well as Prevent Child Abuse Utah.   We discovered that some of these groups already have resources and perhaps what we need to do is help increase visibility and accessibility to these resources rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.  -Ian

The assigned tasks this past meeting included Katie looking further into opportunities to attend a Child Abuse awareness event, and each of us continuing to brainstorm survey questions to be used in measuring public awareness as well as finding further resources for information on child abuse.
-Cameron