Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

[Laura Palumbo <>]

There are many great tools related to healthy sexuality or sex positive approaches to sexual violence prevention. This framework is grounded in basic human sexuality, an important foundation that is unfortunately missing for many (not just young adults). Resources like Go Ask Alice are a great example of the fact that college-age students are looking to dialogue about sex and sexuality, and even students who “know” more about sex may not have received healthy messages and accurate information (http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/).

 

Healthy sexuality as sexual violence prevention resources:

 

NSVRC’s 2012 Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaign focused on healthy sexuality:

http://www.nsvrc.org/saam/healthy-sexuality-resources

 

Doin it well: Approaching Sexual Violence Prevention from a Sex Positive Framework

Kim Rice and Ross Watland

http://www.wcsap.org/sites/www.wcsap.org/files/uploads/webinars/Sex%20Positive%20Approach/Sexpositive1.pdf

 

Healthy Sexuality

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

http://www.mckinley.illinois.edu/handouts/healthy_sexuality.htm

 

answer, sex ed honestly

Websites for professionals:

http://answer.rutgers.edu/page/webresources/

 

Prevent connect

Healthy Sexuality wiki:

http://wiki.preventconnect.org/Healthy+Sexuality

 

Also, I agree with Bob! Scarleteen is a great resource. They have a wonderful piece on consent:

Driver's Ed for the Sexual Superhighway: Navigating Consent

http://www.scarleteen.com/article/boyfriend/drivers_ed_for_the_sexual_superhighway_navigating_consent

 

There are many other great resources, so I really hope others chime in the conversation. Has anyone used these tools in their campus programing?

 

Be well!

 

Laura Palumbo

Prevention Campaign Specialist

 

National Sexual Violence Resource Center

123 North Enola Drive, Enola, PA  17025

717.909.0710 x128

877.739.3895 Toll Free

http://www.nsvrc.org

 

See you at the National Sexual Assault Conference.

To join us Aug. 28-30 in Los Angeles, visit www.nsvrc.org/nsac

 

From: Franklin, Robert (VDH) [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 11:51 AM
To: Felty, Wade P.;
Subject: RE: Handling freshman orientation

 

While this does not directly answer your question, it may give you an idea of how to have parents begin the conversation but also letting new students know something like this is out there.

 

http://www1.umn.edu/parent/health-safety/relationships-sexuality/index.html

 

Has anyone used the scarletteen.com website as a resource to help educate incoming students? www.scarletteen.com It is a nice anonymous way for those with little knowledge but questions to get some real information.

“Scarleteen, sex ed for the real world. Inclusive, comprehensive and smart sexuality information and help for teens and 20s”

 

 

Bob

 

 

Robert L. Franklin, MS

Sexual and Domestic Violence

Community Outreach Coordinator

Division of Prevention & Health Promotion

Virginia Department of Health

109 Governor Street, 9th Floor

Richmond VA  23219

Phone: (804) 864-7739

Fax: (804) 864-7748

 

email:

 

web: http://www.knowcoercion.com

web: http://www.varapelaws.org

web: http://www.vahealth.org/Injury/sexualviolence/

web: http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/ofhs/prevention/

 

 

 

From: Felty, Wade P. []
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 10:18 AM
To:
Subject: Handling freshman orientation

 

The College is asking me to redesign our sexual assault program at Freshman orientation and this has made me ponder something that’s been bothering me for a while. What to do about the large amount of incoming students who don’t know anything about human sexual relationships for whatever reason. I am worried that we are talking about consent and different types of force and coercion and so on….and assuming that they are able to use their past knowledge about human sexual relationships but I think many of them are uneducated in that department. For instance, parents who have had their children removed from human sexuality classes for religious/cultural reasons (where they are offered), and schools with limited human sexuality education. I also have a sneaking suspicion that there are a large number of incoming students who were involved in purity rings and abstinence movements in high school and I think they’ve been deliberately misinformed about human sexual relationships. What does the group recommend for quickly educating incoming students so that they have a basic working knowledge that we can build on for our sexual assault/relationship violence presentation?

 

Wade

 

Wade Felty

Wade Felty

Office of Residence Life & Housing and Judicial Affairs

Randolph-Macon College

(804)-752-3234 (Office)

(717)-813-3513 (Mobile 1)

(804)-441-4187 (Mobile 2)

 

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