Holly's House Child Abuse Prevention Curriculum Design
In developing the Holly’s House Prevention Series, staff reviewed a multitude of conventions for prevention program design. A bibliography of thirty-four references informed the work, incorporating the following core concepts into our final curriculum pieces.
Core Concepts for Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
Presentation Method
Core Concepts for Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
- Recognizing types of abuse and children’s rights to safety
- Abuse is not the child’s fault, prevalence of abuse, child is not alone
- Identifying healthy and unhealthy behaviors in adults, peers, and older children
- Telling a trusted adult about abuse, threats, bullying, or other types of violence
- Awareness of personal boundaries and what behaviors are a violation of boundaries
- Recognizing warning signals of concerning behaviors such as secret keeping, bribe, coercion, force, rule breaking, and normalization of abusive behaviors
- Responsibility for own behaviors and respecting boundaries
- Promote empowerment, resilience and self-regulation skills
Presentation Method
- Multiple Sessions: 2 (45-50 min.) & 4 (20-30 min.), roughly 2 hrs total
- Regularly scheduled, annual for most (not enough longitudinal studies)
- Repetition of concepts with content build based on age/developmental stages
- Discussion, interactive visuals, movement, phrases, videos
- Q & A opportunities
- Parent take home- information and activity sheet
- Teacher information and evaluation
- Student evaluation-knowledge based only