Curriculum and Web Site Links to help you explore the issues of Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse, and Sexual Assault
The following pages contain materials used by the RESOLVE Family Abuse Program.
1. Classroom Debates
What makes a relationship abusive?
· Is it just physical abuse – or can there be emotional abuse as well?
· Give some examples of emotional abuse (e.g., name-calling, controlling behavior, guilt-tripping, etc.)
· Can girls as well as boys be abusive?
· What should you do if someone you care about abuses you, either emotionally or physically?
· When is it time to leave the relationship?
· Why do some people stay in abusive relationships?
· What can be the consequences?
Look through the newspaper for a week or a month and find articles about:
· Domestic Violence
· Sexual Abuse
· Child Abuse
· Sexual Assault/Rape
· Kidnapping
· Elder Abuse – this is abuse of elderly people either by family, strangers or negligent care in a nursing home
Develop a graph and do a report on your findings
Current Newspaper Articles - Research Topics
1. The U. S. Air Force Academy – Air Force investigators have said at least 56 allegations of sexual abuse at the academy have been reported over the past 10 years.
2. U. S. Navy – Tailhook 1991 - What was this all about?
3. A Fayetteville couple get 30 days for sewing children’s hands together with needle and thread.
4. Cyber-Stalking cases – Problems on the Internet
RESEARCH – FIND ARTICLES
All Rape is “Real Rape” by Alice Vachss
www.vachss.com/guest_dispatches/alice_vachss.html
Local – www.wvgazette.com or www.dailymail.com library.cnpaper.com
Also look for stories on TV, magazines, movies or books that discuss these subjects.
WEB SITES
1. www.rape101.com - resources and education for stopping rape
2. www.ekklesia.com/abuse/whyguys.htm – Why Guys Don’t Tell
3. www.menweb.org/sexabupg.htm – Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
4. www.wvcadv.org – WV Coalition Against Domestic Violence – good source about resources in WV. Also has a section on Domestic Violence Laws in WV
5. www.crimelibrary.com – cyber-stalking
6. www.safetyed.org/help/stalking
7. www.sfwa.org/gateway/stalking.htm
8. www.wiredpatrol.org/stalking/about.html
9. ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/advice.shtml – Sexual Assault and Rape Advice for Men
10. www.preventchildabusewv.org/directory.html#justice – West Virginia Children’s Justice Task Force
This Charleston Newspaper’s Newspaper in Education supplement has been sponsored in part by the West Virginia Children’s Justice Task Force with funds provided by West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Bureau for Children and Families, The Charleston Public Safety Council and Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Task Force with funds provided by a grant from the WVDHHR Bureau for Public Health Community Based Initiatives Grant and the REACH Program and Family Services of Kanawha Valley, Inc.