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January 2015 Community Education E-bulletin

1/5/2015

Happy New Year! Welcome to the January 2015 edition of Hope House's
Community Education E-bulletin!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Hope House Is Hiring
2. You're Invited to a Community Resources Panel
3. Hope House Donation Needs
4. See the Signs & Speak Out: Become an Upstander
5. One Billion Rising
6. Sexual Assault
7. Campus Sexual Assault

8. Domestic Violence
9. Children & Youth
10. Miscellaneous News
11. Local News
12. Training Opportunity
13. Parents' and Youth Service Providers' Section
14. Faith Communities' Section

Hope House is Hiring
Have you heard? Hope House is hiring a full-time Community Educator and a full-time Client Advocate (Legal Focus). For more information, see our Career Opportunities page. Please share with anyone that may be interested.

You're Invited to a Community Resources Panel
Hope House is helping to organize a Community Resources Panel on January 21 from 11:30am-1pm at Trappers Turn Golf Club in Wisconsin Dells. Panelists will include staff from health and human services, law enforcement, prosecution, a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, Hope House, Ho-Chunk, and a faith community. Panelists will discuss how their agency acts as a resource to the community, especially as it relates to responding to and preventing abuse and violence. There will be time for Q&A. Cost is $15 to attend. For more information and to register, click here. Hope you can join us!

Hope House Donation Needs
Monetary donations are most needed. Individuals have the option of donating online. Please note that a portion of your online donation will go towards PayPal fees. Donations can be mailed to Hope House, P.O. Box 557, Baraboo, WI 53913. We also appreciate gas cards, gift cards (Walmart, Kwik Trip, Walgreens, Kohl’s), taxi vouchers from Baraboo Taxi, and used cell phones, iPods and iPads. Please note that we are not accepting stuffed animals, clothes (except for sweatshirts and sweatpants), shoes, TVs, bar soap, hats, scarves or travel-size bottles of shampoo, conditioner, or body wash. Current needs include

Bathrooms: Toilet paper, Deodorant, Small garbage cans with bags, Nail clippers, Toilet bowl cleaner, Cleaning supplies such as Lysol disinfecting spray and floor cleaner, Clorox wipes, Hairspray, Bleach, Bathroom rugs and bath mats
Kitchen: Dishwasher soap, 13-Gallon garbage bags, Paper towels, Silverware, Pots and pans, Brush for cleaning bottles, Fruit juice, Sip cups, Milk, Saran wrap, Aluminum foil
Laundry: Poweaundry detergent, Dryer sheets, Fabric softener sheets
Clothing for Women and Kids: Winter boots, Socks, Women’s underwear, Medium-Large size pajamas, Sweatshirts and sweatpants
Misc: Baby wipes, Band-Aids, Diapers and pull-ups, Pocket-sized calendars, Strollers, Baby bottles, Umbrellas, Hangers, Weather radio, Journals, Exercise balls, Yoga/exercise DVDs, Relaxation CDs, Baby thermometer, CD players, Regular light bulbs, New twin bed sheets

Special Note about Travel-Size Items: We encourage those looking to donate travel-size items to donate them to the Backpack Project. The Backpack Project strives to provide Baraboo School District students who are financially challenged to enter the school doors on the first day ‘just like everyone else’ and to show these children the community supports and encourages them to learn and do their best. If interested in donating towards this project, please contact Becky Hovde at 608-963-8230 or hivebiz@centurytel.net.

See the Signs & Speak Out:
Become an Upstander

See the Signs & Speak Out is a series of free, online bystander intervention training tools related to domestic violence and sexual assault. The areas of focus include the following:

Recognize, Respond in the Workplace: Learn how to intervene as a bystander in the workplace to prevent domestic violence and sexual assault.
Dating Abuse: Tools for Talking to Teens: Empower yourself with the right information and strategies to identify dating abuse and help the teens in your life thrive in safe and healthy romantic relationships.
Stand Up, Don't Stand By: Protect Children from Domestic Violence: Help protect children by recognizing the signs of abuse, deciding to do something, and intervening in a safe way.

Please call Hope House at 608-356-9123 if you would like the in-person training offered free of charge at your business, school, church, or community group.

One Billion Rising Revolution, February 14, 2015

One Billion Rising comes from the World Health Organization's statistic that 1 in 3 women in the world will be raped or beaten in her lifetime, equaling about one billion women. The theme for the third annual One Billion Rising campaign is revolution - one billion women, men, and children demanding change to end violence against women and girls.

How will you rise? What represents your revolution? It can take many forms. Here are just a few ideas:

Learn One Billion Rising's "Break the Chain" dance and perform it at your school, church, or community group. Hope House can help you learn it or you can learn the choreography yourself here.
Get together with some friends and family and create artwork that illustrates a world free of violence and what it will take to get us there. Ask your school's art teacher to make this a class project.
Create signs that say "I'm rising because..." or "Change can happen if..." and take photos of people in your community holding the signs with their individual responses.
February is also Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. Get the teens in your life involved with leading a project that promotes healthy relationships and violence prevention.

Please contact Hope House at 608-356-9123 if you'd like to get involved this February.

January is National Stalking Awareness Month and
National Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month
January 19-23 is No Name-Calling Week

News & Research
Sexual Assault

Gillibrand Seeks Another Vote on Military’s Handling of Sexual Assault Cases: "With several high-profile assault and rape cases dominating the headlines, Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, is asking for a vote on a bill that would remove sexual assault prosecutions from the oversight of military commanders"...Read more...Read related article: Senators Shoot Down Gillibrand's Military Sexual Assault Reform Bill
Pentagon Survey: More Sexual Assault Cases Reported: "Fewer members of the military are being sexually assaulted and more victims are coming forward, the Pentagon said in a long-awaited report obtained by CNN on Wednesday. But 4.3 percent of the United States' active-duty women still say they were the victims of unwanted sexual contact in the last year, and most still aren't reporting those assaults. Some of those who did report their assaults faced retaliation"...Read more
Gillibrand Not Buying the Pentagon's Report on Military Sexual Assault: "But Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who's made military sexual assault one of her key issues, issued a statement calling the report 'disappointing,' casting a skeptical eye on the Pentagon's claims of progress and pointing out that nearly two-thirds of service members who reported their assaults say they experienced some form of retaliation for doing so. You can see the full report here and an executive summary here, but suffice it to say, the thing is packed with so much dense number salad that the New York Times and USA Today filed advance stories with exactly conflicting headlines"...Read more
Only One Percent of Male Military Victims Report Sexual Assault: "Afraid to be seen as victims or as weak or gay, men in the hyper-masculine military culture often don’t feel comfortable reaching out for help or reporting sexual assaults. Over the past year, though, the services have increased efforts to reach out to male victims, urging them to come forward so they can receive treatment and so officials can go after perpetrators"...Read more
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen Announces Protocol for Untested Sexual Assault Kits in Custody of Local Law Enforcement: "Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is pleased to announce a new protocol to address more than 6,000 untested sexual assault kits residing in the custody of local law enforcement. The new protocol is the result of work done by the Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Response Team, or SART, which convened for the first time in December 2012"...Read more
Finally Wanted: Police to Chase Thousands of Fugitives: "The newspaper found this year that more than 330,000 accused felons — including some wanted in rapes and murders — can escape the charges against them merely by crossing a state border because police and prosecutors secretly decided in advance not to go that far to retrieve them. In the months that followed, officials from Florida to Pennsylvania reversed those decisions by the thousands, informing the FBI that they intend to retrieve fugitives from anyplace in the USA"...Read more
Could a Bacterial ‘Fingerprint’ Solve a Sexual Assault Case?: "A new study suggests that the microbes present on pubic hair -- which vary from person to person -- could be used as evidence in sexual assault cases…'The advent of DNA profiling has resulted in an increase of sexual offenders using condoms, which they take away, post-assault,' Tridico said in a statement. 'The implication of this present study is that the transfer of bacteria between victim and offender, in rape cases, may provide a new way of linking the offender to the victim, in instances in which no human DNA is transferred'...But maybe one day it could contribute to a case"...Read more
Why I Spoke Out About One Rape but Stayed Silent About Another

The Sexual Abuse of Boys Is Not About “Getting Lucky” and We Need to Stop Promoting This Myth: "I’m sick of adults abusing children, and I’m sick of the way the media portrays male survivors of abuse as willing accomplices or 'lucky boys' when the perpetrator is a female. Why do we do this? Why aren’t we willing to protect our boys and stand up for them? Why don’t we think they deserve the right to bodily autonomy and consent?"...Read more...Read related article: A 12 Year-Old Boy’s First Kiss Shouldn’t Be With a Grown Woman

A Man of Healing, a Saga of Suffering: Allegations of Child Sex Abuse are Complicated by a Legal Maze in Indian Country: "Child sexual abuse on the reservations is at the root of the many problems that follow for Indian children — depression, alcohol and drug abuse, juvenile detention and suicide, according to Indian country experts. The challenge of getting victims to speak out — common in child sexual assault cases anywhere — is exacerbated by the close-knit nature of the remote communities where they live"...Read more
Pope Appoints British Child Sexual Abuse Survivor to Church Commission: "A British survivor of child sexual abuse who set up a charity to help other victims has been appointed by Pope Francis to his new commission to protect children and help people who have been abused…'I am going to raise issues around the cover-ups of the past, and also to say that victims’ organisations need some serious funding. I want to try and help change the church for the better'"...Read more
30 Years of Child Sexual Abuse: One Important Lesson: "Yesterday, former BBC DJ Chris Denning was given a prison sentence of 13 years for three decades of child sexual sexual abuse. Denning was convicted on 40 counts of sexual abuse against 24 boys, aged nine to 16…'The defendant used the allure first of the record industry and celebrity, and then the world of computer games to entice boys into his company'"...Read more
Roman Polanski Loses Bid for Dismissal of Sexual Assault Conviction: "Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski has lost his latest bid to dismiss a 1977 sexual assault conviction that spurred him to flee to Europe to avoid sentencing"...Read more
Boko Haram Kidnapped Nigeria Schoolgirls Likely Facing Forced Labor, Sexual Assault: "Some of the girls have escaped, but 219 remain in captivity...The girls who remain in captivity are likely facing forced labor, sexual assault and even being used in military operations by luring men into ambushes, according to a Human Rights Watch report from October that interviewed other girls who have been kidnapped by Boko Haram and escaped...Since the large group of schoolgirls went missing, Boko Haram has engaged in several smaller-scale kidnappings"...Read more
LAPD Interviews Woman Suing Bill Cosby for Sexual Battery
49ers Cut Ray McDonald Amid Sexual Assault Investigation: "The San Francisco 49ers have released Ray McDonald just hours after the defensive end was named as a suspect in a sexual assault investigation...McDonald was previously arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence in August, but was not charged"...Read more
Vulnerable in the Field: Sexual Assault Is Common Among Scientists: "But a study published in July indicates that sexual misconduct happens at the same rates--about one in five people--to scientists working in the field, oftentimes when they're conducting research away from their home institution. They rarely know where or how to report these cases. Most disturbingly, in the majority of incidents involving women, the perpetrators were the victims' superiors and supervisors"...Read more

Campus Sexual Assault

Don't Let the Rolling Stone Controversy Distract You From the Campus Rape Epidemic...Check out the infographic here
A Letter from a Friend: Jackie's Story is Not a Hoax: "Whether the details are correct or not, and whether the reporting was faulty, or the hazy memories of a traumatizing night got skewed…the blame should never fall on the victim’s shoulders. Jackie is a victim, as are so many others, men and women, young and old. So many stories have gone untold and so many perpetrators have been allowed to walk free"...Read more
How the Neurobiology of Trauma Affects Rape Accusations: "But psychologists say inconsistencies in survivors’ accounts of violent trauma are common. Recent neurobiology research suggests that when a person is experiencing a traumatic event, 'fight or flight' hormones and neurotransmitters flood the body, affecting the way the brain encodes memories — so much so that they tend to be disjointed and out of chronological order"...Read more...Read related article: What Sexual Assault Does To The Brain
Why I Don’t Want To Hear Both Sides Of Rape Cases: "But realistically, how does talking to a rapist confirm that a rape occurred? Do we really believe that a rapist would admit 'Oh yes, I was there and I raped her' if a journalist approached them? And it is not unusual for publications to cover violent crimes — including sexual assault — without interviewing the alleged perpetrator. Demanding that we must hear both sides when we talk about sexual violence plays into the tired 'he said/she said' framing often used to dismiss sexual assault"...Read more
Harvard to Change Sexual Assault Policies after Federal Investigation

DOJ Releases Report on College-Age Rape and Sexual Assault: "The report found that among college-age females, ages 18 to 24, the rate of rape and sexual assault was significantly higher for non-students than students. Non-students were victims of rape and sexual assault more often than students were, although that may be changing. For 2013, no differences in the rates of rape and sexual assault were found between the two groups. But, rape and sexual assault victimization were more likely to go unreported to police among victims who were college students (80 percent) than non-students (67 percent)"...Read more...Download a one-page summary sheet here
Sexual Assault Statistics Can Be Confusing, But They're Not The Point: "The statistic makes for a nice talking point to back up why a U.S. senator or state lawmaker would spend so much energy on an issue, but it's not the reason campus sexual assault became such a hot topic in 2013 and again in 2014. The reason this issue has gotten so much attention, rather, is because students started speaking out and criticizing how their colleges and universities handled their sexual assault cases. Rarely did they mention any national statistics. Their focus was on soft punishments, disparaging comments college officials made to survivors, fraternities making rape jokes, and alleged retaliation for criticizing their schools on these issues. Some rape survivors said they ended up in psych wards and dropped out of school when they sought help from their institution. 'These are real people we're talking about, not numbers'"...Read more
Christian University Apologizes to Sexual Assault Victims: "The apology came in advance of a 300-page report published Thursday, drawn from interviews with some 40 victims of sexual abuse or sexual assault at Bob Jones university over four decades"...Read more

Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence Is Violence: Mass Killers Often Start by Stalking or Assaulting Women: "Brinsley is far from the first to lay bare the connection between gendered violence and other violent acts. Before Cho Seung-Hui killed more than 30 people in the horrific Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, police investigated him for two separate reports of stalking by female classmates. This year, not long before Elliot Rodger launched a shooting spree in Isla Vista, California, that left six dead and 13 wounded, he authored angry and misogynistic tirades in various online forums...And just a few days ago, Man Haron Monis held 17 people hostage for more than 12 hours in a coffee shop in what quickly became known as the Sydney siege, which culminated in the deaths of two hostages as well as Monis...At the time of the standoff, he was out on bail for charges relating to the murder of his ex-wife, whom he had also threatened and stalked, and he had been charged with more than 40 sexual assault offenses"...Read more...Read related article: Police Suspect Domestic Violence in Canada Shooting Rampage

It’s Time to Bring Domestic Violence Survivors Like Barbara Sheehan Home From Prison: "For twenty-five years, Sheehan was terrorized by her husband, Raymond. The terror included physical beatings and frequent threats to kill her and their two children. In February 2008, when her husband pointed a gun at her, Sheehan shot him first. Acquitted of murder, she was convicted of firearms possession and sentenced to five years in prison. Now she is petitioning for clemency"...Read more
Police, Prosecutors Use New Tools to Help Domestic Violence Victims: "Earlier this month, more than 80 officers representing every law enforcement agency in Milwaukee County learned to use a new tool to better assess domestic violence situations and determine which victims are at greatest risk for a deadly encounter…'Intimate partner domestic violence investigations are homicide prevention work,' said Cudahy Police Chief Thomas D. Poellot, who helped bring the nationally recognized lethality training to Wisconsin"...Read more

Under Local Laws, 911 Calls Turn Domestic Abuse Victims into ‘Nuisances’: "The ordinance stipulated that tenants who made three 911 calls in four months could be evicted. Briggs had already received three strikes as the result of emergency calls made during previous attacks by her ex, and the month before the incident, city officials had notified her that further calls would result in her removal from her apartment...Terrified, Briggs instructed family members not to call police under any circumstances. She persisted even when her ex-boyfriend attacked her again...A neighbor ultimately called 911...Three days later, her landlord began eviction proceedings against her under the direction of the city...The rights group argued that the town had violated Briggs’ First Amendment rights to petition law enforcement, as well as the federal Violence Against Women Act, which grants protections to victims of violence living in federally subsidized housing"...Read more

The NFL's Response to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault: "The information that follows gives a good sense of what the league has done thus far and where it may go in the future (long-term plans are still being determined)"...Read more
NFL Executive Breaks Down While Talking to Congress About Domestic Violence: "West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who chaired the hearing, called for the four major professional sports leagues to develop uniform policies to 'effectively and appropriately' punish players who commit criminal acts against women and children. Many of the senators noted the outsize influence athletes have on America’s youth and lambasted the leagues for its current efforts in responding to domestic violence"...Read more
Kings' Slava Voynov Pleads Not Guilty to Domestic Violence Charge: "The Los Angeles Kings' defenseman has been suspended by the NHL since his Oct. 20 arrest in a domestic violence investigation"...Read more
One Group Has a Higher Domestic Violence Rate Than Everyone Else — And It's Not the NFL: "It's not just that women are more intimidated to report domestic violence because their attackers are officers and worry that nobody will believe them; it's that officers adjudicate the entire process on an informal level"...Read more
Domestic Violence as Prevalent for College Students as Sexual Assault: "On Black Friday, Nadia Ezaldein, a University of Chicago student, was working at a Chicago Nordstrom when her ex-boyfriend entered the store, found her in the accessories department, and shot her to death. It was her 22nd birthday...While not currently at the forefront of a national conversation, domestic violence remains as prevalent an issue among college students as sexual assault. One in five students has experienced domestic violence"...Read more
Los Angeles Man Sentenced In California's First 'Revenge Porn' Conviction: "Noe Iniguez, 36, was found guilty of both violating the restraining orders his ex-girlfriend had against him and breaking California's new 'revenge porn' law...In March of 2014, he posted a nude photo of her calling her a 'drunk' and a 'slut' and suggesting her employer fire her. Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said a the statement that the 'new revenge porn law gives prosecutors a valuable tool to protect victims whose lives and reputations have been upended by a person they once trusted. This conviction sends a strong message that this type of malicious behavior will not be tolerated'"...Read more
Dave Navarro Opens Up About His Mother's Murder: "In 1983, the guitarist's mother Connie Navarro was murdered by a vengeful ex-boyfriend, when Dave was just 15 years old...Navarro recently connected with Law and Order: SVU actress Mariska Hargitay, who has taken the lead on the 'No More' campaign against domestic violence, which features numerous celebrities in its PSA including him"...Read more

Domestic Abuse During Pregnancy Affects Baby Too: "Symptoms of emotional and behavioral trauma in young children include nightmares, startling easily, being bothered by loud noises and bright lights, avoiding physical contact, and having trouble experiencing enjoyment"...Read more

Children & Youth

Positive Role Models, Safe Communities Linked To Better Mental Health For Poor Teens: "Rather, a combination of having positive adult role models and a favorable perception of their neighborhood made a teen more likely to report better mental health"...Read more
Mean Boys' Rule in Middle, High School, Study Finds: "The study tracked 620 students in six northeast Georgia school districts who completed yearly surveys as they progressed from grade six to 12. In every grade, boys were more likely than girls to use relational aggression"...Read more
How Witnessing Violence Affects a Child, and How to Help: "It takes time to process a traumatic event, she said, and that timeline is different for every person. My son was likely bringing up what happened because he’d hit a new developmental phase, and he was revisiting the attack 'but seeing it in a different way,' she said. So what should we do? 'Be open to talking, and validate the experience'"...Read more
Nearly Half of U.S. Kids Exposed to Traumatic Social or Family Experiences during Childhood: "Among children with two or more adverse experiences who already have a chronic condition requiring regular doctor visits, those who had learned and showed even the one aspect of resilience evaluated in the study were 1.5-times more likely to be engaged in school and nearly half as likely to repeat a grade in school compared to those who had not learned this skill...Some of the most promising methods involve simple breathing techniques as well as so-called 'trauma-informed' care and community approaches growing in popularity all across the country"...Read more

Miscellaneous
Move to End Violence: Building Inclusive Racial and Gender Justice Movements #BlackLivesMatter #FreeMarissa #WhyWeCantWait: "Move to End Violence and its Movement Makers have come together to stand with the hundreds of thousands in our country and millions around the world to assert that our lives and liberation are connected and inextricable. #BlackLivesMatter. We stand with these leaders and ask you to join us in advancing inclusive racial and gender justice movements now. Black women and girls, alongside the black men and boys in their communities, deserve safety and visibility. #blacklivesmatter #freemarissa #whywecantwait"...Watch the video here...Read their full statement here

UN Women's 2014 Gender Equality Timeline: "From the passing of one of the Arab region's most progressive constitutions enshrining women's rights to changes in legislation to provide long overdue redress to wartime survivors of sexual violence, this year there was a number of gender equality achievements, milestones and noteworthy moments from around the world to celebrate. We invite you to take a moment to view a selection of some of these achievements in the latest edition of our interactive timeline — Gender Equality: The Year in Review 2014."

The Respect Challenge Winners: Futures Without Violence has announced the winners of their Respect Challenge where people share who taught them about respect. Check out the winning entries here.

Local News

FAR FROM BROKEN: The once-emaciated, severely burned and abused boy of Oneida Street speaks about leaving the past behind and moving forward: "One year ago, after his 18th birthday, the Daily Register requested an interview with Andrew Garlin, who in June 2007 was the boy found in a home on Oneida Street in Portage close to death from torture and severe abuse. In September, Andrew granted the Daily Register an in-person interview accompanied by Portage Police Detective Lt. Mark Hahn and Columbia County Circuit Court Judge W. Andrew Voigt"...Read more
Michael Patton, 37, of Mauston, was sentenced to 12 years and nine months in the Wisconsin prison system for incest...Read more
Darrell Wallace Jr., 18, of Mauston, pleaded guilty to child sexual exploitation of a 12-year-old girl and no contest to felony bail jumping in a five-year deferred judgment agreement. Under terms of the agreement, Wallace will serve the first two years of the agreement on probation and the remaining three years on extended supervision...Read more
Amos Day, 34, of Juneau County, charged with four counts of first-degree sexual assault of a 10-year-old child and six other felonies...Read more
Anne Simon, 58, of Baraboo, has been arrested in the stabbing death of her brother...Read more

Levi Kearney, 19, of Lodi, faces five counts of second-degree child sexual assault...Read more
The state Department of Justice will seek to retry Stacy Hartje, 30, of Mauston, charged with child abuse whose trial ended with a hung jury last week...Read more
A judge declared a mistrial Friday in the seven-day trial of Stacy Hartje, 30, of Mauston, charged with abuse of a child in 2007...Read more

George Kloth, 39, of New Lisbon, charged with 20 counts of possession of child pornography...Read more
Michael Klingbiel Jr., 22, of Elroy, charged last week with second-degree sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in Mauston...Read more
Joshua Olson, 30, of Elroy, charged with sexually assaulting a girl over a period of years starting in 2005, when she was 15, and he was working at a dishwasher at Mauston High School...Read more
Stacy Hartje, 30, of Mauston, is charged with first-degree reckless injury, child abuse causing great harm and first-degree recklessly endangering safety of a boy in her home day care...Read more
John Henning, 42, of Endeavor, faces multiple felony counts for allegedly having sexually explicit conversations with a teenager on Facebook...Read more

Training Opportunity

Register now for the 19th annual Fulfilling the Promise Conference. The 2015 conference's special focus on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma informed care will help you take your work to another level. Invited to join are partners in child welfare, law enforcement, substance abuse, mental health and other fields who want to learn how childhood experiences impact lifelong well-being, how ACEs can lead to negative outcomes, and how services can be improved with an understanding of the role of trauma in people's lives. For more information, please click here.

Parents' & Youth Service Providers' Section

You Are What You Wear: The Dangerous Lessons Kids Learn From Sexist T-Shirts: "'I can’t say one shirt, one Barbie doll...that one thing is not going to be a tipping point of making a difference, but it’s the culture they grow up in that, of course, socializes them...There is such a large subset of messages that remind girls that they are not supposed to be assertive or they’re not supposed to be good at science or math or reinforce the idea that how you look is more important than who you are'"...Read more

No Name-Calling Week is Jan 19-23: "No Name-Calling Week was inspired by the popular young adult novel entitled The Misfits by popular author James Howe...No Name-Calling Week has been adopted by schools everywhere and has grown into one of the largest bullying-prevention initiatives in the country." Be sure to check out their planning guide, student survey and pledge, proclamation, poster and stickers, and lesson plans for grades K-12.

Teaching About Ferguson: Race and Racism in the United States: "These Teaching Tolerance resources can help spur much-needed discussion around implicit bias and systemic racism, but they can also empower your students to enact the changes that will create a more just society"...Check out the resources here
How To Talk To Boys About Sex And Consent: "Given recent stories about violence against college women, what should parents say to college-age sons? NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with author Rosalind Wiseman about guiding boys through adolescence"...Read or listen to the interview
Adolescent Health in Wisconsin: "The Office of Adolescent Health has combed through adolescent health information and recently updated our state and national summaries of adolescent health and behavior...You will find OAH fact sheets on five health areas" including reproductive, mental, and physical health and nutrition, substance abuse, and healthy relationships. Read the Wisconsin data sheets.
Teen Dating Violence Resources: Check out this webpage, recommended to Hope House from a parent, which lists various resources on teen dating violence for teens, their friends, parents, and educators.

Faith Communities' Section

Community Resources Panel: Please click here to learn more about the Community Resources Panel on January 21 that Hope House is helping to organize with the Faith Leaders for Healthy Relationships committee.
January is National Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month: The Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center (IPJC) has compiled a prayer service, information on starting an awareness vigil, and other resources related to human trafficking awareness: "IPJC acts for justice in the church and in the world. IPJC is sponsored by 18 religious communities and collaborates with Catholic, ecumenical, interfaith and other organizations in carrying out this mission." The Samaritan Women also has resources on their anti-human trafficking pages: "The Samaritan Women is a national Christian organization providing restorative care to survivors, and bringing about an end to domestic human trafficking through awareness, prevention, and advocacy."

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