Presentations available through Crisis Connection, Inc.

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A set fee is not charged for our speakers, providing the booking does not require an overnight. An appropriate donation to Crisis Connection is always appreciated. Thank You!

Crisis Connection has speakers available to give workshops and presentations on a wide variety of topics. The length and content will be tailored specifically to your audience's need. Format is also adapted and can include video, power point, pre-and post-testing, pass-outs, interaction or a unique format designed for your particular circumstance.

Additionally, we can provide age-appropriate printed materials in English and Español available upon request. CCI has a victim advocate on staff that is fluent in Español.

Presentations are available for:

The sexual responsibility and respect, in-school component is based on a grant through Purdue University’s Communities Against Rape Initiative or CARe.

Suggested interdisciplinary strategies for integrating the CARe curriculum include:

Art

• Drawing the emotions of a victim advocate or social worker who works with victims of violent crime
• Taking photos or making posters for Domestic Violence and/or Sexual Assault Awareness Months
• Organizing art expression therapy for victims serviced by the local victim advocacy agency

Business

• Preparing a study on the financial cost of domestic and sexual violence in our society and presenting the study to ten local employers

English

• Read an insightful book such as: To Kill A Mockingbird
  • Speak
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • The Gift of Fear
  • and then prepare a pamphlet on the effects of violence on young people and distribute to local teen centers

Music

• Produce a skit about teen relationship violence and present at your school
• Analyze ten different current songs for sexual content and violence

Science

• Profile an acquaintance rapist
• Profile an emotional or verbal batterer
• Read and discuss a current article on sexual assault nurse examiners

Math

• Conduct a statistical analysis of either state or national rape and domestic violence victimization figures; what does the data tell you are the probable victimization rates for your own community?

Social Studies

• Study a time line of legislation affecting the treatment of women throughout history in the U.S. Have laws for males and females differed? What is the current status.

Physical Education

• Study self-defense

Health

• Study the role DNA analysis plays in crime investigation.
• Discuss the physical and mental health issues associated with violent crimes
• What should a victim of violent crime do?

FACS

• Create awareness displays and hang throughout your school
• Research families of survivors; what is the cost of violent crime to them?
• Sew quilts and fabric bags for survivors
• Create a Clothesline Project in conjunction with your local victim advocacy center

Industrial Tech

• Brainstorm ideas for safer environments that could assist victims of domestic and sexual violence feel safer in their own homes

Sports

• Discuss whether professional athletes are good role models in their personal lives. Find examples of good and bad models.
• Use one of the following curriculums to learn how you have been impacted by violent images and how you can learn to be a good mentor for young children:
  • MVP Strategies
  • Wrestling with Manhood
  • Tough Guise
  • More Than a Few Good Men

Language

• Study anti-violence campaigns from around the world; is the language the same as that used in the U.S. How is it the same? Different?

Additional Presentations Available

Cut It Out!
Salons Against Domestic Abuse Fund.

Anti-Bullying
Curriculum focuses on what bullying is whether you are being bullied/you are the bully or you are a bystander, how to deal with it, and tools to overcome the behavior.

Child Safety
Curriculum contains materials on the concept of, "No, Go & Tell". It helps to learn to be smart but not scared. We also have access to ‘Kids on the Block’ puppets.

Sexual Harassment Prevention
Curriculum focuses on what sexual harassment consists of and what to do should it occur.

Acquaintance Rape
Curriculum helps debunk myth about date rape, what victims & people who care about them can do.

Predatory Drugs
Curriculum includes information on the various types of predatory drugs, their effects, some prevention techniques to avoid being drugged, and how to help someone if they are drugged.

Liz Claiborne’s Love Is Not Abuse
In 2006, our agency was picked as a pilot for this program. The Love Is Not Abuse program was developed by New York-based Liz Claiborne Inc.; the Education Development Center, a non-profit education and health organization; and Break the Cycle, a non-profit group that provides domestic-violence intervention services to youths ages 12 to 22. It focuses on relationship violence.

Media Awareness
Curriculum is focused on how media impacts our society’s attitudes, relationships & behavior in regard to issues of sexism, power, control and violence. It speaks to the effects of media (television, advertising, computer images, magazines, music) on our community; particularly, our children.

Journaling
Keeping a journal can help cultivate personal growth in many aspects of one’s life. This workshop helps participants learn about techniques, types and habits.

Gender Issues
Curriculum focuses on how males and females are perceived in our culture & the implications from those perceptions.

Internet/Technology Safety
Curriculum helps learn the dangers of technology – safe blogging, proper web surfing, cyberbullying, stalking, etc.

Healthy Relationships
Curriculum identifies what a healthy relationship is and the red flags of unhealthy relationships.

Faith Communities
Curriculum focuses how the faith community can better understand domestic and sexual violence; how people within the faith community can help with the issue by providing access to resources.

Workplace Violence
Curriculum particularly helps Human Resource personnel insure their organization has effective policies, how to conduct awareness campaigns and how to help their employees.

Stereotyping
Curriculum focuses on cultural stereotyping: gender, racial, religious, ableness, cultural, socio-economic, political, sexual orientation and age

Detecting, Investigating & Treating Non-lethal Strangulation Cases
Curriculum helps medical & law enforcement personnel identify and deal with strangulation issues.

Law Enforcement
Curriculum focuses on how the law enforcement community can best serve victims of crime. We also have information on victims’ rights and legal implications.

• Domestic Violence
• Sexual Violence
• Spanish Language

Medical Community
Curriculum includes screening techniques, how to handle abuse during pregnancy, documentation, how to best help survivors, emergency issues, etc. We also have information available about the SANE program (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners).

Human Trafficking
Trafficking victims, trafficking in persons, or human trafficking—is a form of modern-day slavery. Traffickers often prey on individuals who are poor, frequently unemployed or underemployed, and who may lack access to social safety nets, predominantly women and children in certain countries. Victims are often lured with false promises of good jobs and better lives, and then forced to work under brutal and inhuman conditions. Curriculum focuses on the worldwide issues of trafficking.

Scouting
Boy Scouts: Facilitate earning of the ‘Crime Prevention’ badge and the Child Protection component of their program.
Girl Scouts: Facilitate earning achievements as: Raintree Council’s Violence Against Women patch; Studio 2B Take Charge; Staying Safe

‘101’
The ‘101’ classes can deal with basic understanding of:

• Sexual Assault
• Domestic Violence
• Men's Batterer's Intervention Program

Respect
Curriculum focuses on self-respect, positive self-talk and assertive communication. It can also provide information on dealing with emotions, i.e. anger, frustration, etc.

Service Learning
Curriculum provides opportunities for service to community (i.e. organizing a drive for our agency; volunteering for projects at our office; conducting awareness campaigns, etc.)

Natural Helpers
Natural Helpers is a peer based helping program designed for middle and high school students who want to strengthen their communication and helping skills by providing support and service to others. Natural Helpers is based on a simple premise: students naturally seek out other trustworthy students, and occasionally teachers, for advice, assistance, or just a sympathetic ear.

Safety
Curriculum can focus on a variety of issues including:

• Community Safety
• Cell Phone Safety
• Internet Safety
• College Safety
• Stalking
• Date Rape Drugs
• Sex Offenders
• Pedophiles & Child Molesters
• Internet Predators
• Sexual Harassment
• Lethality Assessments
• Damage to Children of Abusive Men

Stress Management
Understanding that ineffective stress management skills can lead to violence, this workshop provides tools on how to handle stressors in one’s life.

Abuse
Curriculum deals with what abuse is and the cycle of violence and understanding the dynamics of power and control.

Conflict Resolution
Curriculum provides some concrete materials on how to fight fairly and resolve challenges.

Indiana Protective Orders

Advocate’s Role within the SART

What is Men’s Batterers’ Intervention?

All discussions will include the behaviors and mind-sets that contribute to men’s violent crimes, use of safety plans and the healing process itself. We believe that education is the key to:

1. Exposing the secret of men’s violence and abuse;
2. Breaking the generational cycle that is so common with domestic and sexual assault;
3. Recognizing the signs & symptoms of men’s domestic and sexual violence; and,
4. Holding the perpetrator – rather than his victims – accountable for his choice to be violent.

To schedule a speaker, contact the Community Education Department. They will provide a curriculum vitae of the speaker as well as references from previous clients if so desired.