Anti-Trafficking Teen Prevention Program

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Who We Are: Redeemed for A Cause is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that serves as a catalyst for the transformation of abandoned, broken, rejected and abused women to realize their self-worth and true potential?  To achieve this transformation, it requires a full metamorphosis change in one’s mind, body, and spirit.  As this change is realized, one becomes REDEEMED and realizes their self-worth, reestablishes self-love and makes positive life changes.

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Main Program Goals

●      Raise awareness of human trafficking through teaching young people to recognize the warning signs of human trafficking in their relationships.

●      Teach young people about recognizing signs of abusive relationships and applicable resources for help

●      Develop a community through the youth-group activities where young people feel safe to express themselves and seek help when needed.

●      Promote young people being safe by avoiding unsafe behaviors

Our Model

 Through our experience, our program can be facilitated on a weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly basis.  We also offer both individual or group-setting consultations to participants.  For the purposes of effectiveness, we encourage students to join a support group.

Program Impact

●      April 2018, 25 Kensington CAPA High School Teenagers identified with being victims of human trafficking after attending our Assembly entitled “Human Trafficking: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly”

 

●      In 2019, school counselors at the Roxborough High School, Franklin Learning Center, Kensington CAPA High School identified 100 students total (students in 9th to 12th grades) that were at risk of being victims of human trafficking – based on a questionnaire we designed.  Students who were identified were invited to participate in your after-school youth group.

 

●      From Feb 2019 to April 2019, we ran a weekly program for 25+ at-risk youth (at-risk was determined due to young people being in foster care and teenage runaways)

 

●      In March 2019, 10 teenage girls were enrolled in our anti-trafficking program at Roxborough after completing our prevention questionnaire, given to them by the School Counselor.  These 10 girls went on to complete the remainder of the school year. 

 

●      In January 2020, the teenage girls from Roxborough High School along with 6 other local schools participated in the “Sound the Alarm Initiative” where they were provided whistles to protect themselves from perpetrators and to support an end to human trafficking.

 

●      In February 2020-March 2020, we ran a biweekly program for at-risk youth girls and boys (who were identified by the school counselors, administrators, and teachers) at W.C. Longstreth Elementary School.

 

●      In January 2021, we ran a weekly in person group with at-risk youth (who were identified by school counselors, administrators, and teachers) and opened a toiletry closet entitled the “flower shop” at West Catholic Preparatory High School.

 

●      In July 2021 teen community HUB to provide services to teen participating with Community Umbrella Agency (CUA): Turning Points for Children, Forget Me Knot Youth Services, etc.  The services we provide are basic need items such as free toiletries, food, life skills workshops, health education, sex and breast health, yoga & meditation sessions, etc.  Also, we will discuss sex education that will cover topics such as consent, healthy relationships, self-love, etc. 

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Topics

 

1. Boundaries: How to Say No – Teaching young people to make decisions based off their own choices, use boundary words, and avoid engaging in unsafe behaviors

2. Effective Communications - Effective communicating and expressing feelings to others

3. Passive, Assertive, Aggression (How to Manage) – Managing emotions and importance of self-care, emotional stability

4. Overcoming Fear – Understanding oneself, what makes one feel fearful and learning to overcome fear, recognizing and mitigating other negative emotions that are unhealthy.

5. Drugs, Sex and Relationships – Understanding the effects of drug usage, STD’s, topics in casual dating, protection.

6. Peer Pressure – Safe vs. unsafe behaviors in peer pressure

7. Social Media and Sexting – Covering the risks and uncertainties in social media, safe vs. unsafe conversations, trust of individuals met on the internet.

8. Emotional Intelligence – Strategies to get rid of toxic behavior linked to unprocessed trauma, understanding one’s emotions and how to control one’s emotions.

9. Identifying Risk Situation & People and Planning Ignoring – Topics on identifying situations that put one in risk, learning consequences, strategies to remove oneself from interactions that could be risk-factors Philadelphia.

10. Sex Education – Topics on consent, healthy relationships, self-love, etc. to learn about making appropriate decisions regarding their body, understanding their self-worth, and being their own advocate.

 

Cost (Negotiable) – Standard Rates

 

Package

Cost

11 Week Workshop Program

(20 Total Hours of Workshops includes preparation time, human-trafficking risk assessment and quarterly youth-group meetup)

$2,500.00

5 Week Workshop Program

(10 Total Hours of Workshops, human-trafficking risk assessment and quarterly-youth group)

$1,550.00

1 Workshop 

$225.00

 

 

Sex-Ed Curriculum

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Anatomy and Physiology

1. Describe human reproductive & sexual response systems 

   1. Describe the internal and external body parts and their functions

   2. Describe the naturally occurring variations in human bodies (vulva differences, circumcised v intact penises & etc.)

      1. Biological sex/ sex assigned at birth 

         1. Biomedical approach 

      2. Intersex

   3. Describe the role of hormones and pleasure 

 

Puberty & Adolescent Sexual Development

1. Define medical accuracy 

   1. Analyze medically accurate sources of information about puberty, adolescent development and sexual health, STIs, local prevention and treatment centers 

      1. Medically accurate 

2. Describe the cognitive, social and emotional changes of adolescence and early adulthood 

   1. As you have gotten older, what aspects of your identity have changed? (new foods that you enjoy, style of clothing, hygiene changes)

   2. What are some of the physical changes that you have experienced?

   3. How have these changes impacted the ways in which you interact with people?

   4. What are adolescence & puberty? 

      1. Adolescence - A transitional phase of growth and development between childhood and adulthood that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood (age of majority). The World Health Organization (WHO) defines an adolescent as any person ages 10 and 19. This age range falls within WHO’s definition of young people, which refers to individuals between ages 10 and 24.

      2. Puberty - A stage of human biological development during which adolescents become sexually mature and capable of reproduction. This occurs when the pituitary gland triggers production of testosterone, estrogen, and/or progesterone resulting in physical and emotional changes. Physical changes may include hair growth around the genitals, menstruation, sperm production, breast growth, and much more

   5. As your body is experiencing the changes associated with puberty, how can you show love to your body?

3. Analyze how peers, media, family, society, culture and a person’s intersecting identities can influence self-concept, body image and self-esteem 

   1. The way in which instagram models (editing photos, body modification surgeries) have set the pace for what bodies should like

   2. The porn industry setting the tone for what sex is and should be

   3. Remarks from family about the way that one’s body looks

   4. Comparison of bodies between you and those around you (especially during puberty)

   5. Define self-concept, body image and self-esteem 

      1. Self-concept - An individual’s attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and cognitions about who they are as a person.

      2. Body image - How people physically experience or feel in their own body, including beliefs about their appearance, which is influenced by life experiences, media representations, stereotypes, assumptions, and generalizations. This may or may not match a person’s actual appearance

      3. Self-esteem - A person’s overall opinion of themselves and how they feel about their abilities and limitations. For example, high self- esteem may result in someone feeling good about themselves whereas someone with low self-esteem may place little value on their own opinions and ideas.

   6. How does consumption of things around us impact how we see ourselves?

   7. What makes you feel confident in yourself?

   8. What are things that you like about yourself?

   9. What are ways that you can stay rooted in the things that make you feel confident?

 

 

Gender Identity & Expression

1. Differentiate between sex assigned at birth, gender identity, and gender expression 

   1. Sex assigned at birth 

   2. Gender

      1. Cisgender

      2. Gender binary 

      3. Gender pronouns

   3. Gender identity 

      1. Androgynous

      2. Agender

      3. Genderqueer

      4. Gender nonbinary 

      5. Transgender

   4. Gender expression 

      1. Gender expansive 

      2. Gender nonconforming 

2. Explore gender roles 

   1. Gender roles

3. Understand how media, society, culture, and a person’s intersecting identities can influence attitudes, beliefs, and expectations about gender, gender identity, gender roles, and gender expression

   1. Based on your gender identity, how do you feel that you express that?

   2. Why do you express your gender this way?

   3. Does this expression match how other people of your same identity express themselves?

   4. What are the traits (both physical and character-wise) that you want to have? 

   5. Where did these traits come from?

   6. Who is someone that you look up to? 

   7. How does your perception of this person impact the way that you present yourself?

4. Explain how support from peers, families, schools, and communities can improve a person’s health and wellbeing as it relates to gender identity and gender expression

   1. How does it feel to be supported by your peers, family and community?

   2. How do your peers, family and community impact your wellbeing? 

   3. How have your peers, family and community impacted your gender expression?

 

Sexual Orientation & Identity 

1. Differentiate between sexual orientation, sexual behavior, and sexual identity

   1. Sexuality

   2. Sexual orientation 

      1. Asexual

      2. Bisexual

      3. Gay

      4. Heterosexual

      5. Lesbian

      6. Pansexual

      7. Queer

   3. Sexual behavior 

   4. Sexual identity 

2. Demonstrate ways to communicate respectfully with and about people of all sexual orientations

   1. Slurs that one should not use 

   2. Pronouns

 

Sexual Health

1. Define vaginal, oral, and anal sex

   1. Anal sex

   2. Oral sex 

   3. Vaginal sex 

2. Demonstrate ways to communicate decisions about whether or when to engage in sexual behaviors

   1. Identify factors that are important in deciding whether and when to engage in sexual behaviors

   2. Analyze how alcohol and other substances can influence sexual decision-making

   3. Analyze societal factors that might inhibit honest discussion between sexual and/ or romantic partners about their sexual histories, including STDs and HIV status, and identify ways to begin such conversations 

   4. Analyze factors that can influence condom use and other safer sex decisions (e.g., availability, affordability, perception of risk, pleasure)

   5. Analyze the impact of stigma and conscious and unconscious biases on pregnancy and STD, including HIV, prevention, testing, and treatment

3. Develop a plan to eliminate or reduce risk of unintended pregnancy and STDs (including HIV) and identify ways to overcome potential barriers to prevention

   1. Describe the steps to using barrier methods correctly (e.g., external and internal condoms, dental dams)

      1. External condoms

      2. Internal condoms 

   2. List at least four methods of contraception that are available without a prescription (e.g., abstinence, condoms, emergency contraception, withdrawal)

      1. Abstinence

      2. Condoms

      3. Emergency contraception 

      4. Withdrawal

      5. Long acting reversible contraception 

   3. Compare and contrast behaviors, including abstinence, to determine the potential risk of pregnancy and/ or STD (including HIV) transmission

   4. Demonstrate the steps to using barrier methods correctly (e.g., external and internal condoms, dental dams)

   5. Identify factors that impact the risk of unintended pregnancy and potential transmission of STDs, including HIV, from a variety of sexual behaviors, including vaginal, oral, and anal sex

   6. Analyze state and federal laws and guidelines (e.g., CDC) that address sexual healthcare services for minors (e.g., contraception, emergency contraception, prenatal care, adoption, abortion, STD, including HIV, prevention, testing, and treatment)*

   7. Identify medically accurate sources of information about and local services that provide prevention, testing, care, and treatment of STDs, including HIV, including the steps to obtain PrEP and PEP

      1. PEP

      2. PrEP

4. Describe the state and federal laws related to age of consent, minors’ ability to consent to health care, confidentiality in a healthcare setting, child pornography, sexting, safe haven, and sex trafficking

5. Define prenatal care and identify medically accurate sources of information about prenatal care and how to reduce or eliminate risk for pregnancy and/or STDs (including HIV)*

6. Describe pregnancy testing, the signs of pregnancy, and pregnancy options, including parenting, abortion, and adoption

7. Explain STDs (including HIV), how common STDs are, and how they are and are not transmitted

   1. Describe the signs, symptoms, or lack thereof, and potential impacts of STDs (including HIV)

   2. Discuss current biomedical approaches to prevent STDs (e.g., hepatitis B vaccine, HPV vaccine) and HIV (e.g., PrEP, PEP)

   3. Explain medical breakthroughs in HIV prevention and treatment and why HIV can now be considered a chronic condition

      1. Describe the steps for how a person living with HIV can remain healthy

   4. Describe the state and federal laws related to minors’ access to sexual healthcare services, including pregnancy and STD/HIV prevention, testing, care, and treatment

8. Define racism and intersectionality and describe their impacts on sexual health

   1. Define reproductive justice and explain its history and how it relates to sexual health

9. Identify medically accurate sources of information about and local services that provide contraceptive methods (including emergency contraception and condoms) and pregnancy options (including parenting, abortion, adoption, and prenatal care)

10. Explain the federal and states laws that prohibit the creation, sharing, and viewing of sexually explicit media by minors (e.g., sexting)

11. Explain the state and federal laws related to safe haven, parenting, and sterilization, including their impacts on oppressed communities

12. Vocabulary

    1. AIDS

    2. Anal sex 

    3. Contraception

    4. Emergency contraception 

    5. External condoms 

    6. HIV

    7. Induced abortion 

    8. Internal condoms 

    9. Intersectionality

    10. Long acting reversible contraception 

    11. Masturbation

    12. Oral sex 

    13. PEP

    14. Pregnancy options 

    15. PrEP

    16. Rape

    17. Reproductive justice 

    18. Sexual behavior 

    19. Sexual intercourse 

    20. STDs

    21. Spontaneous abortion 

    22. Vaginal sex 

 

Consent & Healthy Relationships 

1. Compare and contrast characteristics of healthy and unhealthy romantic and/ or sexual relationships

   1. Evaluate strategies to end an unhealthy relationship, including when situations may require adult and/ or professional support

      1. Who are people in your life that you can depend on for help when you feel unsafe?

   2. Describe the characteristics of unhealthy relationships that media, including sexually explicit media, may perpetuate (e.g., inequality between partners, lack of communication and consent, strict gender stereotypes

      1. Think about a romantic relationship that you have seen in your real life, what are some of the characteristics present in that relationship?

      2. Think about a romantic relationship that you have seen on social media or on television, what are characteristics that are present in that relationship?

      3. Of these characteristics, which ones are important to you in a romantic relationship? 

      4. Of these characteristics, which are ones that you would not want in a relationship?

      5. Definition of healthy relationship 

         1. How are the relationships that you see in the media different from these? 

         2. How does media impact the societal norms of relationships? 

         3. Quavo & Saweetie as an example?

   3. Describe the potential impacts of power and privilege within romantic or sexual relationships (e.g., age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, socio- economic status, immigration status, ability)*

      1. What is an example of a relationship (can be romantic or non-romantic) where a power structure is in place? 

      2. How could this power structure impact a romantic relationship?

2. Describe effective ways to communicate consent, personal boundaries, and desires as they relate to intimacy, pleasure, and sexual behavior*

   1. Students will be able to define consent 

      1. What does it mean to consent to something?

      2. What is the age of consent for Pennsylvania?

      3. What is sexual consent? Why is it important? 

      4. What are the legal consequences of sexual behavior without consent?

      5. What are factors that impact one’s ability to give sexual consent? How do they impact the ability to give consent?

         1. Body image 

         2. Self-esteem

         3. Alcohol and substance use

   2. Students will be able to identify things that are within their boundaries as well as how to say no when an action is outside of those boundaries

      1. List things that you are comfortable doing (e.g. cooking pasta, going to the grocery store alone, driving a car) 

      2. List things that you are not comfortable doing (e.g. walking down the street alone) 

      3. How do you identify something that you are comfortable doing v something that you are not comfortable doing? 

      4. How does it feel to do things that you are not comfortable doing? 

      5. What are things that you are comfortable saying in order to stop an action that is not within your boundaries? (e.g an excuse if you are not comfortable straight out saying no)

   3. Students will be able to demonstrate ways to show respect for the boundaries of others 

 

Interpersonal Violence

1. Define interpersonal and sexual violence (e.g., sexual harassment, sexual assault, incest, rape, domestic violence, coercion, and dating violence) and describe their impacts on sexual health*

   1. Identify the state and federal laws related to intimate partner and sexual violence (e.g., sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence)

2. Define sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, and gender-based violence*

   1. Describe strategies that sex traffickers/ exploiters employ to recruit youth

   2. Identify ways to reduce risk in physical and digital settings related to sex trafficking and other potentially harmful situations

3. Explain why a person who has been sexually harassed, abused, or assaulted, or has been a victim of incest, rape, domestic violence, or dating violence is never to blame for the actions of the perpetrator* 

4. Vocabulary

   1. Dating violence 

   2. Gender-based violence 

   3. Interpersonal violence 

   4. Intimate partner violence 

   5. Sex trafficking 

   6. Sexual abuse 

   7. Sexual assault 

   8. Sexual violence 

 

 

Vocabulary:

1. Abstinence

   1. Choosing to refrain from a behavior

   2. Sexual abstinence refers to refraining from certain sexual behaviors for a period of time. Some people define sexual abstinence as not having penile-vaginal intercourse, while others define it as not engaging in any sexual behavior

2. Adolescence

   1. A transitional phase of growth and development between childhood and adulthood that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood (age of majority). The World Health Organization (WHO) defines an adolescent as any person ages 10 and 19. This age range falls within WHO’s definition of young people, which refers to individuals between ages 10 and 24.

3. Age of Consent

   1. The age a person is legally able to consent to sexual behaviors. It varies from state to state, but ranges from 14 to 18 years of age in the United States

4. Agender

   1. A person who does not identify with any gender

5. Anal Sex 

   1. Sexual behavior involving penetration of the anus by a penis or sex toy.

6. Androgynous

   1. A person who identifies and/or presents as neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine

7. Asexual

   1. A person who does not experience sexual attraction but may experience other forms of attraction (e.g., intellectual and/ or emotional)

8. Biological Sex 

   1. The sex of an individual as determined by chromosomes (such as XX or XY), hormones, internal anatomy (such as gonads) hormone levels, hormone receptors, and genes, and external anatomy (such as genitalia)

9. Bisexual

   1. A person who is emotionally, romantically, and/or sexually attracted to more than one gender, though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way, or to the same degree. 

      1. bisexual sexual orientation speaks to the potential for involvement with more than one gender. It does not require an involvement 

10. Bodily Autonomy 

    1. an individual’s right to make decisions regarding one’s own body, including deciding at any point who may or may not touch their body in any way 

11. Body Image 

    1. How people physically experience or feel in their own body, including beliefs about their appearance, which is influenced by life experiences, media representations, stereotypes, assumptions, and generalizations. This may or may not match a person’s actual appearance.

12. Bullying

    1. Physically, mentally, and/or emotionally intimidating and/or harming an individual or members of a group. These actions are done repeatedly in-person, through technology, and/or through social exclusion with the intent of being hurtful or threatening.

13. Cisgender

    1. A person whose gender identity is aligned with their biological sex or sex assigned at birth

14. Consent

    1. informed, voluntary, and mutual agreement between people to engage in an activity

    2. Consent cannot be given when an individual does not have the capacity or legal ability to consent. This can include one who is:

       1. legally considered a minor

       2. intoxicated by alcohol or other substances

       3. other conditions that affect one’s ability to understand and/or agree to engage in a behavior

15. Contraception

    1. Any means used to reduce the risk of pregnancy

       1. including, but not limited to: 

          1. Abstinence

          2. barrier methods (e.g., external condoms and internal condoms)

          3. hormonal methods (e.g., pill, patch, injection, implant, IUD, and ring)

          4. nonhormonal methods (e.g., sterilization and nonhormonal IUDs)

16. Dating Violence 

    1. controlling, abusive and/or aggressive behavior within a romantic and/or sexual relationship. 

       1. It can include verbal, physical, sexual, emotional, economic, and/or psychological abuse

       2. Can be perpetuated against someone of any gender

       3. Can happen in any relationship regardless of sexual orientation

17. Domestic Violence 

    1. a pattern of abusive behavior in a relationship by one individual to gain or maintain control over another individual when those individuals live in the same domestic setting

    2. This may include verbal, physical, sexual, emotional, economic, and/or psychological abuse as well as control, intimidation, threats and/or stalking. 

    3. It can happen to individuals who are married, living together, dating, or sexual or intimate partners, as well as to children and other family members, regardless of socio-economic background, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender, or gender identity.

18. Emergency Contraception 

    1. A safe, legal, and effective way to reduce the risk of pregnancy up to five days (120 hours) after unprotected sex and/or failed contraception

       1. Commonly referred to as “the morning-after pill” 

       2. Emergency contraception may be less effective for individuals with a higher body mass index.

19. External Condoms 

    1. A sheath of latex or polyurethane that is worn on the penis to reduce the risk of pregnancy, and/or sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) when engaging in sexual behavior

20. Gay

    1. An umbrella term used for people who are romantically, emotionally, and/or sexually attracted to people of the same gender

       1. although most commonly associated with a person who identifies as a man who is romantically, emotionally, and/or sexually attracted to other men.

21. Gender

    1. A set of cultural identities, expressions and roles—typically attached to a person’s sex assigned at birth and codified as feminine or masculine—that are assigned to people based upon the interpretation of their bodies and, more specifically, their sexual and reproductive anatomy. Gender is socially constructed, and it is, therefore, possible to reject or modify the assignment made and develop something that feels truer to oneself. (See also Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Gender Role.) Examples of gender include but are not limited to: male, female, transgender woman, transgender man, agender, gender expansive, genderqueer and nonbinary

22. Gender Binary 

    1. A socially constructed system of viewing gender as consisting solely of two categories,male and female

    2. No other possibilities for gender are believed to exist.

23. Gender Expansive

    1. Refers to a person who broadens their own culture’s commonly held definitions of gender, including: 

       1.  expectations for its expression, identities, roles, and/or other perceived gender norms

    2. Gender-expansive individuals include those with transgender and nonbinary identities, as well as those whose gender expression is in some way seen to be stretching society’s notions of gender

24. Gender Expression 

    1. The manner in which people outwardly express their gender 

       1. ex: clothing, appearance, or mannerisms

25. Gender Identity 

    1. How an individual identifies based on their internal understanding of their gender.

       1. may include: male, female, agender, androgynous, genderqueer, nonbinary, transgender, and many others, or a combination thereof.

26. Gender Nonbinary 

    1. A person who embraces a gender identity along a continuum or spectrum of gender identities and expressions

       1. often based on the rejection of the gender binary’s assumption that gender is strictly an either/or option based on sex assigned at birth.

27. Gender Nonconforming 

    1. A person whose gender identity and/or gender expression does not conform to the sex they were assigned at birth nor to prevailing cultural and social expectations about what is appropriate for their gender

28. Gender Pronouns 

    1. The pronoun or set of pronouns a person uses to refer to themselves when they are not being addressed by name

29. Gender Roles 

    1. The cultural or social expectations of how people should act, think, and/or feel based on the gender they are perceived to be

30. Genderqueer

    1. A person whose gender identity is neither male nor female, is between or beyond genders, or is some combination of genders.

31. Gender-Based Violence 

    1. Any act that is perpetrated against a person’s will and is directed at an individual based on their sex assigned at birth and/or gender identity and is based on gender norms and/or unequal power relationships.

    2. Encompasses threats of violence and coercion and can include verbal, physical, sexual, emotional, economic, and/or psychological abuse, threats, coercion, whether occurring in public or private life, and can take the form of a denial of resources or access to services

32. Healthy Relationships 

    1. A relationship between individuals that consists of mutual respect, trust, honesty, support, fairness/equity, separate identities, physical and emotional safety, and good communication.

33. Heterosexual

    1. A person who is romantically, emotionally, and/or sexually attracted to people of a gender different from their own

34. Homophobia

    1. Prejudice against individuals who are or are perceived to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, or queer.

35. Incest

    1. Sexual contact between persons who are so closely related that marriage between those two people would be considered illegal

36. Induced Abortion 

    1. A medicinal or surgical procedure that ends a pregnancy. Medicinal abortion, also called medication abortion, most often involves the use of a prescription medication called Mifepristone, which is also known as RU-486, and is used in combination with misoprostol. These medications are often called “the abortion pill.” Abortion medication should not be confused with Emergency Contraception, a medication that reduces the risk of pregnancy when taken shortly after unprotected sex. Surgical and medication abortion are legal, but subject to various federal and state laws in the United States. (See also Emergency Contraception.)

37. Internal Condoms 

    1. A polyurethane pouch that is inserted into the vagina when one is engaging in sexual behaviors to reduce the risk of pregnancy and/or sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Some people also use internal condoms in the anus to protect against STDs during anal sex. Internal condoms are also called female condoms.

38. Interpersonal Violence 

    1. Violence between individuals that is subdivided into domestic and intimate partner violence and community violence. The former category includes child maltreatment; dating violence, intimate partner violence; and elder abuse, while the latter is broken down into acquaintance and stranger violence and includes youth violence; assault by strangers; violence related to property crimes; and violence in workplaces and other institutions. Interpersonal violence includes sexual violence.

39. Intersectionality

    1. A term coined by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, JD, LLM to describe the way that social categorizations, such as race, class, and gender, do not act independently of one another, but create overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage; a theoretical approach based on such a premise. Intersectionality looks at the relationships between multiple marginalized identities and the way that multiple systems of oppression interact in the lives of those with multiple marginalized identities.

40. Intersex

    1. General term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive and/or sexual anatomy that does not seem to fit the typical, binary definitions of female or male. Intersex conditions are not always discernable at birth or the awareness of internal anatomy present at birth may not be known to the person until puberty, if it is known at all. A derogatory term previously used for intersex individuals is hermaphrodite.

41. Intimate Partner Violence 

    1. Physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse, violence, or aggression that occurs in a close relationship

    2. It includes threats of violence and coercion and can include verbal, physical, sexual, emotional, economic, and/or psychological abuse, and violation of individual rights. 

    3. Intimate partner violence is defined by abusive behavior and can occur in all types of intimate relationships regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation and does not require sexual intimacy

42. Lesbian

    1. A person who identifies as a woman who is romantically, emotionally, and/or sexually attracted to other women.

43. Long Acting Reversible Contraception 

    1. Contraceptive methods that can remain in place for several years. They are the most effective forms of reversible contraception and include, but are not limited to, IUDs and implants

44. Masturbation

    1. Touching one’s own body for sexual pleasure. This may include stimulation of one’s own genitals and commonly results in orgasm.

45. Miscarriage

    1. The spontaneous or natural loss of a fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy. (Spontaneous or naturally occurring pregnancy loss after the 20th week is often called a stillbirth). Miscarriage, which may also be called a spontaneous abortion, is a naturally occurring event, unlike an induced abortion, which is also known as a medicinal or surgical abortion

46. Oral Sex 

    1. Sexual behavior that involves a person using their mouth to sexually stimulate the genitals of another person.

47. Pansexual

    1. A person who has the potential to be romantically, emotionally, and/or sexually attracted to people, regardless of their gender or gender identity though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way, or to the same degree.

48. Power

    1. Access to resources (social power) that enhance one’s chances of living a relatively more comfortable, productive, and safe life. Wealth, whiteness, citizenship, patriarchy, heterosexism, and education are a few key social mechanisms through which power operates

49. Privilege

    1. Unearned access to resources (social power) that are only readily available to some people because of their social group membership.

    2. advantage or immunity accorded by the formal and informal institutions of society (e.g., housing, government, education, media, business, healthcare, criminal justice, religion) to all members of a dominant group above and beyond the common advantage of all other groups

    3. often invisible to those who have it

50. Puberty

    1. A stage of human biological development during which adolescents become sexually mature and capable of reproduction. This occurs when the pituitary gland triggers production of testosterone, estrogen, and/or progesterone resulting in physical and emotional changes. Physical changes may include hair growth around the genitals, menstruation, sperm production, breast growth, and much more

51. Queer

    1. An umbrella term often used by people who do not conform to dominant societal norms to express fluid sexual orientation, gender identity, or sexual identity. While often used as a neutral or even a positive term among many LGBT people today, “queer” was historically used as a derogatory slur.

52. Rape

    1. A type of sexual assault that involves vaginal, anal, or oral sex using a body part or an object without consent. Rape is a form of sexual assault, but not all sexual assault is rape

53. Reproductive Justice 

    1. A term coined by 12 Black women to define the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities. In addition, reproductive justice demands sexual autonomy and gender freedom for every human being

54. Safety Plan 

    1. A personalized and practical plan that can help a person in an unsafe relationship know the best way to respond when they are in danger including, but not limited to, how to get out of the relationship.

55. Self-Concept

    1. An individual’s attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and cognitions about who they are as a person

56. Self-Esteem

    1. A person’s overall opinion of themselves and how they feel about their abilities and limitations. For example, high self- esteem may result in someone feeling good about themselves whereas someone with low self-esteem may place little value on their own opinions and ideas.

57. Sex Assigned at Birth 

    1. The sex that the medical community labels a person when they are born, which is typically based on their external genitalia. Sex Assigned at Birth is also known as natal sex

58. Sex Positive 

    1. Teaching that recognizes that sexuality and sexual development are natural, normal, and healthy parts of our lives and refrains from using shame and fear to motivate students to be abstinent.

59. Sex Trafficking 

    1. The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, provision, or obtaining of an individual who under threat, force, coercion, fraud, deception, or abuse of power is sexually exploited for the financial gain of another. Considered a form of modern-day slavery, it does not have to have some form of travel, transportation, or movement across borders. For minors, consent is irrelevant, and the element of means (e.g., force) is not necessary.

60. Sexual Abuse 

    1. Any sort of unwanted sexual contact, including but not limited to, force, threats, or taking advantage of an individual, often over a period of time. 

    2. A single act of sexual abuse is usually referred to as a “sexual assault.”

61. Sexual Agency 

    1. Sexual agency includes 

       1. the ability to give consent to participate in and/or decline sexual behaviors; to choose whether or not to engage in sexual behaviors in a specific way, with a specific person, and/or at a specific time and place; the ability to choose safer sex practices, including contraception; and the right to choose to define one’s sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender.

       2. To have agency in an area of life is to have the capability to act in a way to produce desired results.

62. Sexual Assault 

    1. Any unwanted sex act committed by a person or people against another person.

       1. Examples include, but are not limited to: nonconsensual kissing, groping or fondling; attempted rape; forcing someone to perform a sexual act; and rape

63. Sexual Behavior 

    1. Acts that include, but are not limited to: vaginal sex, oral sex, anal sex, mutual masturbation, genital rubbing, or masturbation.

64. Sexual Exploitation 

    1. Actual or attempted abuse of a position of vulnerability, power, or trust, for sexual purposes, including, but not limited to, profiting monetarily, socially, or politically from the sexual misuse of another. 

    2. Sexual exploitation is a type of sexual abuse and can happen in person or online

65. Sexual Harassment 

    1. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other unwanted verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature

66. Sexual Identity

    1. A person’s self-identity based on their understanding of and/or ability to outwardly express their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Sexual identity evolves through a developmental process that varies depending on the individual. Issues such a religion, culture, one’s family values, etc. may impact a person’s sexual identity. No one else can determine what a person’s sexual identity is; only the individual can decide what identity is right for them

67. Sexual Intercourse 

    1. Sexual intercourse may mean different things to different people, but could include behaviors such as vaginal sex, oral sex, or anal sex

68. Sexual Orientation 

    1. A person’s romantic, emotional and/or sexual attraction to other people. Sexual orientations include, but are not limited to, asexual, bisexual, gay, heterosexual, lesbian, pansexual, and queer.

69. Sexual Violence 

    1. An all-encompassing, non-legal term that refers to any completed or attempted sexual act that occurs when consent is not obtained or not freely given. 

    2. It includes sexual assault, rape, sexual abuse, domestic violence, dating violence, and intimate partner violence.

70. Sexuality

    1. The components of a person that include their biological sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, sexual practices, sexual fantasies, attitudes and values related to sex. Sexuality describes how one experiences and expresses one’s self as a sexual being. It begins to develop at birth and continues over the course of one’s lifetime

71. Sexually Transmitted Diseases

    1. Common infections caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites that are transmitted from one person who has the infection to another during sexual contact that involves exchange of fluids or skin-to-skin contact. STDs are often referred to as sexually transmitted infections or STIs in an effort to clarify that not all sexually transmitted infections turn into a disease

72. Spontaneous Abortion 

    1. A naturally occurring termination of pregnancy before the 20th week of pregnancy. (Naturally occurring pregnancy loss after the 20th week is often called a stillbirth). Spontaneous abortion, which may also be called a miscarriage, is a naturally occurring event, unlike induced abortion, which is also know as medicinal or surgical abortions

73. Transgender

    1. A person whose identity and/or expression is not aligned with the sex they were assigned at birth

74. Trusted Adult 

    1. A person to whom a student can turn to in a time of need who can offer support and guidance 

75. Vaginal Sex 

    1. Sexual behavior involving penetration of the vagina by a penis or a sex toy