Topics

Bullying Prevention

· Why someone might act like a bully

· Defining a bystander & their importance

· Showing how bystanders can help safely

· Seeking help if you’re being bullied

· Stating everyone’s right to feel safe and seek help

· Identifying adults to report to and friends to talk to

Cyberbullying Prevention

· Bullying behaviors online and via text

· Comparing online and in-person bullying

· Consequences of online bullying

· Modeling supportive, empathic friendships

· Safety rules for online and text usage

Accepting Differences

· Defining aspects of a community and diversity

· Illustrating various ways a person can be similar and different from each other

· Identifying personal biases and perceptions

· Identifying bullying behavior based on
individual differences

· Noting right to be respected for identity

· Defining respect, fairness & empathy

Managing Emotions

· Recognizing that all types of feelings are OK

· Defining appropriate, effective ways to deal with emotions (breathing, relaxing, talking)

· Encouraging discussion of feelings

· Identifying triggers for emotions

· Identifying how emotions feel in your body

· Reducing stigma around seeking help from a safe adult when dealing with emotions

Child Abuse Prevention

· Recognizing various emotions a victim might have

· Confirming everyone’s right to be safe

· Noting that it is never the victim’s fault, only the fault of the abuser

· Identifying types of secrets

· Emphasizing bodily cues to seek help

· Recognizing difficulty of reporting out of fear of retribution or concern for abuser

· Reporting vs. tattling

· Encouraging victim to keep telling safe adults until something is done to stop the situation

 

Families and Feelings

· Emphasizing everyone’s right to safety

· Defining domestic violence

· Talking about mad feelings and choices about
getting mad feelings out safely

· Illustrate the complex feelings a child witnessing domestic violence might have

· Techniques for getting and staying safe when a problem happens

Healthy Relationships

· Defining relationships

· Talking about friendships and issues

· Healthy and unhealthy relationship characteristics

· Talking about feeling jealous

· Solving friendship problems

· Ways to help a friend with a problem

· What to do when you make a bad choice