Circles of Safety Course Info
Awareness to Action - Option 2
Agenda
Day 1
1:00-1:30pm Introductions, welcome, training overview and goals
1:30-1:40pm Stop It Now! approach
1:40-2:00pm Prevention strategy overview; exercise
2:00-2:30pm Adult responsibility overview, why children don’t disclose; exercise
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-4:00pm Scope of sexual abuse: language, definitions and facts, family safety planning introduction; activity
Day 2
1:00-1:15pm Icebreaker, reflections and thoughts
1:15-2:15pm Children’s healthy sexual behaviors from infancy through adolescence; exercises
2:15-2:30pm Break
2:30-3:15pm Prevention tasks: infant to adolescent; exercises
3:15-4:00pm Healthy touch, modeling, safety planning; exercises
Day 3
1:00-1:15pm Icebreaker, reflections and thoughts
1:15-1:45pm Talking to children about healthy sexuality and sexual abuse, safety planning; exercises
1:45-2:30pm Healthy or unhealthy play, children’s sexually inappropriate behavior
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-3:15pm Warning signs in children, children’s harmful sexual behaviors; exercises
3:15-4:00pm Children’s abusive behaviors, responding to disclosures; exercises
Day 4
1:00-1:15pm Icebreaker, reflections and thoughts
1:15-2:00pm Myth busting, warning signs in adults’ behaviors
2:00-2:30pm Let’s Talk Guidebook, communication skills; exercises
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-3:45pm Role plays, debrief; exercise
3:45-4:00pm Post-surveys
Course objectives
- Explain the scope of child sexual abuse and explain key steps of sexual abuse prevention.
- Detect and respond to warning signs in adults’ behaviors of their risk to sexually abuse a child.
- Detect and respond to warning signs in children that indicate they are at risk for being sexually abused or have been abused.
- Detect and respond to risk factors in children’s environments that increase the risk of sexual abuse.
- Summarize children’s sexual development tasks through adolescence.
- Indicate knowledge of protective tasks for adults to engage with children and youth to decrease their vulnerability to sexual abuse.
- Demonstrate recognition of children’s behaviors that do not fall within normative healthy sexual behavior.
- Discuss safety planning as a tool for sexual abuse prevention.
- Identify barriers that prevent protective responses to risks of sexual abuse.
- Practice effective conversation skills in having difficult conversations with adults who are crossing boundaries with children.
- Differentiate children’s sexual behaviors from adult’s sexual behaviors.
- Summarize common myths about adults who sexually abuse children.