'Our Responsible Behavior with Younger Children program aims to provide sixth and seventh grade students with the knowledge, tools and skills they need to model healthy behaviors with younger children and their peers.' NSAC2019 Beyondthebreakthrough
at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, does work that has been instrumental in looking at how we intervene before harm occurs and offer support to change behavior, especially among young people.
Our Responsible Behavior with Younger Children program aims to provide sixth and seventh grade students with the knowledge, tools and skills they need to model healthy behaviors with younger children and their peers. RBYC focuses on what behaviors are harmful and constitute sexual harassment or child sexual abuse, the consequences of those behaviors, as well as why these behaviors are harmful and how to prevent them.
Everyone we talked to, even the students, said it was important to teach sixth and seventh graders about child sexual abuse, but many were afraid to engage in these discussions. Some educators were concerned they didn’t have all the tools they needed to address student questions, comments and especially disclosures of abuse or inappropriate sexual behaviors students engaged in.
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