- Educating Communities to Keep Children Safe -
Child and Teen Safety Matters
Child and Teen Safety Matters are comprehensive and research-based programs that educate and empower students and all relevant adults to prevent, recognize and respond appropriately to all types of child abuse and exploitation.
- MBF Safety Matters™ is delivered in 2 sessions per grade from Kindergarten to eighth grade;
- Sessions range from 35 minutes to 55 minutes per session;
- Each lesson may also be presented in shorter segments; up to a total of 4 session per grade;
- For additional information visit: www.mbfchildsafetymatters.org
High Five!
High Five! is a unique, empowering and comprehensive child abuse prevention program designed especially for Pre-K students up through the second grade.
- High Five! is delivered in 4 sessions per grade;
- Sessions are 25 minutes each for children grades Kindergarten to second grade;
- For additional information visit: www.mcmahonryan.org
Safe Touches
Safe Touches is a research-based child sexual abuse prevention workshop that uses puppet to talk about sensitive body safety concepts, and helps children learn and practice key safety skills.
- Safe Touches is delivered in 1 session per grade;
- Sessions are 50 minutes each for children grades Kindergarten to third grade;
- For additional information visit: www.nyspcc.org
The New York State Children’s Alliance, Inc. is pleased to announce free training opportunities in three different Child Abuse Prevention curricula. These trainings are for community and school-based professionals who are currently working in or plan to partner with school(s) within New York State. Successful candidates must demonstrate the ability to deliver one of the curricula within a school setting. This project is supported by a federal grant awarded by the New York State Juvenile Justice Advisory Group and administered by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Addressing child abuse is a community responsibility that requires education to equip both children and adults with the necessary information and strategies designed to recognize signs of child abuse and respond appropriately, and to prevent child abuse from occurring in the first place. The goal of this project is to increase access to child abuse prevention educational materials for community and school educators designed to train professionals who can educate and empower students to tell a trusted adult if they are being abused.
Several child abuse prevention curricula are available in the field, and three will be offered as part of this project in order to begin to build capacity in New York State. These curricula are:
Child Safety Matters; High Five; Safe Touches
Individuals or teams of up to three will be eligible to apply to attend one or more of the trainings. Decisions regarding acceptance into the project will be based on candidates' agreement to attend and actively participate in the training, implement the curriculum, provide quarterly data related to implementation, and letters of support from one or more schools that have agreed to implement the curriculum. Letters should describe the commitment to support implementation of the curriculum within the school, and how and when the curriculum will be implemented. Please forward letters of support to Clare Robinson-Henrie at: clare.robinson-henrie@nyschildrensalliance.org . Applications are due by February 1st, 2018.
LOGISTICS
Training in each of the three child abuse prevention curriculum will be held as follows - we are able to offer two separate trainings in the Child Safety Matters curriculum:
Child Safety Matters
March 7, 2018 (Two Sessions Offered)
9:00am – 12:00pm (K-5th Grades) and/or 1:30pm – 4:30pm (6th-8th Grades)
Bivona Child Advocacy Center
One Mount Hope Avenue
Rochester, NY 14620
High Five!
March 9, 2018
9:00am – 4:00pm
McMahon Ryan Child Advocacy Center
601 East Genesee Street
Syracuse, NY 13202
Safe Touches
March 28 & 29, 2018
8:30am – 4:30pm
Prevent Child Abuse New York (WMHT Building)
4 Global View
Troy, NY 12180