Circles of Safety Course Info
Awareness to Action - Session 2
Agenda
Day 1
9:00-9:30am Introductions, welcome, training overview and goals
9:30-9:40am Stop It Now! approach
9:40-10:00am Prevention strategy overview; exercise
10:00-10:30am Adult responsibility overview, why children don’t disclose; exercise
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45am-12:00pm Scope of sexual abuse: language, definitions and facts, family safety planning introduction; activity
Day 2
9:00-9:15am Icebreaker, reflections and thoughts
9:15-10:15am Children’s healthy sexual behaviors from infancy thru adolescent; exercises
10:15-10:30am Break
10:30-11:15am Prevention tasks infant to adolescent; exercises
11:15am-12:00pm Healthy touch, modeling, safety planning; exercises
Day 3
9:00-9:15am Icebreaker, reflections and thoughts
9:15-9:45am Talking to children about healthy sexuality and sexual abuse, safety planning; exercises
9:45-10:30am Healthy or unhealthy play, children’s sexually inappropriate behavior
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45-11:15am Warning signs in children, children’s harmful sexual behaviors; exercises
11:15am-12:00pm Children’s abusive behaviors, responding to disclosures; exercises
Day 4
9:00-9:15am Icebreaker, reflections and thoughts
9:15-10:00am Myth busting, warning signs in adults’ behaviors
10:00-10:30am Let’s Talk Guidebook, communication skills; exercises
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45-11:15am Role plays, debrief; exercise
11:45am-12:00pm 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.