Parents: Monday Evening Workshop on Healthy Teen Relationships
On Monday, May 9th at 6:30 pm, BBA is hosting a parent program on the unique role parents play in teaching about consent and health relationships. Please join us for this important presentation and conversation facilitated by Speak About It educators. I hope that many of you will join the conversation.
Overview:
Overview:
Preparing Your Teen For Healthy Relationships is an interactive, research-based workshop designed to bring parents and caretakers up to speed on information about teen relationships, dating violence, college sexual assault, consent, and healthy sexuality. Speak About It facilitators will empower parents with the knowledge and skills to confidently initiate conversation about these topics with their students in a way that aligns with personal and family values and equips teens for high school and the years to come.
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Meeting ID: 824 6112 7157
Passcode: 880946
On Wednesday, May 11th, as part of our special programming (please review the link to learn more about the day) Speak About It educators will work with our 11th and 12th graders. 10th graders will be out in the community to complete service projects. Please review information on Service Day in your email. 9th graders will view and discuss Listen Up VT, a musical written by VT teens for VT teens. Several past and current BBA students were a part of this project.
Speak About It is a performance about consent, boundaries, and healthy relationships. An ensemble cast of five recent college graduates will perform skits, dialogue and powerful monologues that educate, entertain and empower students to take an active role in sexual assault prevention. The educators have visited BBA in the past and I was impressed with how Speak About It tackled how to be an active bystander in a way that was simple, accessible, and encouraged.
I’m confident that this presentation and our continued dialogue with students will open doors for important conversations on our campus, and provide all of our students with the language, tools, and resources essential to establishing healthy relationships. In addition, the skills students develop are key to supporting a campus culture where we all act as active bystanders and intervene on behalf of a person who has lost his or her power.
Following each performance, small groups of students will meet with the actors/educators and a trained student facilitator to continue the conversation. Speak About It feels that this dialogue is the best education and they encourage open, engaging, honest, sometimes humorous, emotional, guilt and shame-free, eye-opening and culture shifting dialogue. Please note that Speak About It educators will return in the fall to work with our current 9th and 10th graders.
You can find more information about Speak About It at their website.
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