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Community Education Programs
As
described in the “Services Provided” section, the Network provides speakers and presentations to all school grade
levels in the six towns we serve, as well as community, civic, religious, and employer groups.
To schedule a speaker/presentation at your school, etc, please contact our Community Educator, Barbara Calcasola, at
our office phone number, (860) 763-7430, extension 305. Below are summaries of
the three different programs we present for different schools.
Improve Your School Climate~ All Grades
Get Real about
Violence empowers students to act – to begin to encourage positive change. Further, it empowers students
to work in partnership with school adults to stop the bullying, teasing, and victimization that often leads
to deadly violence. The mixed-media, skill-based program helps students to develop the courage to promote pro-social
attitudes and skills.
Choose Respect
The "Choose Respect"
campaign is the starting point for the junior high and high school curriculums. This program not only helps to make teens
aware of dating abuse, but also encourages the development of the social skills necessary to develop healthy relationships.
The use of vidoe helps students visualize the pitfalls of abusive behaviors. In the "Choose Respect" video, teen victims of
abuse share their experiences in language that other teens can appreciate.
In “The Teen Files Flipped – Date Rape / Abusive Relationships” – 17 year old Mario, who
takes pride in seducing as many girls as possible, and 15 year old Debbie, who is drawn to possessive, potentially abusive
boyfriends, are given an unsettling look at the nature of unhealthy dating relationships.
Mario spends his “flipped day” assisting the DA in gathering evidence for the prosecution of a date rape
case. He discovers that the behaviors and attitudes of the accused are uncomfortably
similar to his own. Debbie spends the day with Gina. As the day progresses, Debbie observes the escalating aggressiveness of Gina’s possessive, abusive
boyfriend, and begins to recognize the similarities to her own past relationships. The
program encourages viewers to consider, and perhaps make changes in, their own relationships, attitudes, and behaviors
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