Sexual Violence Prevention Education
The Community Prevention Education and Outreach Program offers prevention education and training for youth, professionals and the general public about issues regarding sexual violence. Professional training is also available for professionals who may come in contact with sexual violence survivors, such as teachers, counselors, health care workers, probation officers and social workers.

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The Center is committed to:

• promoting awareness of sexual assault, abuse, coercion, and harassment
  
• improving community response to victims of sexual assault, abuse, coercion, and harassment through education and training
  
• supporting other efforts in Southern Arizona that contribute to the prevention of and improved response to sexual assault, abuse, coercion, and harassment.

The goals of Education and Outreach are:

• To increase awareness of the prevalence and impact of sexual violence;
  
• To help program participants increase their knowledge of risk and protective factors regarding sexual violence;
  
• To help program participants recognize healthy and unhealthy attitudes towards victims and perpetrators of sexual violence;
  
• To correct rape myths and misinformation with accurate, science-based information;
  
• To help program participants express confidence in seeking family and community support;
  
• To recruit participants as allies against sexual violence and as supports for victim/survivors in their networks;
  
• To increase community capacity to end sexual violence and victim-blaming attitudes. The Community Prevention Education and Outreach Program provides presentations to youth, professionals, and the general public throughout Tucson, Pima County, Tohono O'Odham and Pascua Yaqui nations and other parts of Southern Arizona. These presentations take place in schools and community settings. All presentations are available in English and Spanish.

The public health approach, which looks at the negative impact sexual violence has on the health of individuals and communities, is our primary model. We also incorporate other models, in particular a social norms model, in which we encourage discussion about the messages surrounding sexual violence, gender roles and sexuality that program participants receive from the world around them and how they process those messages.

The Community and Prevention Education Department presents to youth grades 6-12, throughout Tucson, Pima County and in the schools of the Tohono O'odham Nation and Pascua Yaqui Tribe, as well as to adults and professionals in Pima County and other parts of Southern Arizona. The Sexual Violence Prevention Education Program, the youth education component, includes targeted, multi-modal educational sessions, containing a variety of instructional methods designed to reach all types of learners at developmentally appropriate levels. Topics include sexual harassment, sexual assault, relationship violence, personal safety, and many more.

To request a presentation click here.