Sexual Assault In Schools

This group is for women that has experienced sexual assault, either physically or mentally. The group’s purpose is a safe place for women to talk about their experience and come to acceptance with what has happened. Also, to grow from the situation instead of the opposite. We would have the group meet in a private room on campus. The setup of the room would be, have the chair in a circle so that no one will feel excluded. There will be a table with refreshments such as, cookies, water, and coffee. We feel that providing a room with food will give off a very comfortable atmosphere so that everyone can feel welcomed and not tense. The type of group will be both psychoeducational and socialization.
Some activities we have planned for the group …show more content…
Stated in the article, is says that good schools make deliberate attempts to shape school culture in positive directions and to foster health-enhancing behaviors, healthy relationships, and social responsibility in their students, usually with the hope that patterns of behavior learned in schools that will carry over into non-school life. (Szalacha & Westheimer, 2006) This is in hopes that women who have been through traumatizing life experiences that do not carry the dead weight on their shoulders where it would affect their academic or social lives. They want to give women a platform to be able to come to a place where they are able to overcome any type of sexual abuse they have encountered and hopefully use skills and techniques learned in the session to help themselves or other women from having reoccurring episodes. The type of groups and interventions are form of small, adult-facilitated counseling/discussion groups for youth struggling with issues related to sexual assault. These groups are used to set a friendlier environment in school settings. The readings suggest schools also may attempt to foster student empowerment and engagement through programs and groups to help up lift them. They believe that students attending these groups would gain a sense of confident and power that would give them the strength to overcome …show more content…
We would give the ladies surveys that ask questions such as “did you feel like this program helped you?”, “do you think different about your situation after attending the session?’’ and “how do you view yourself?”. As social workers, we would know if we have helped someone just solely based off their progression from session to session. We could observe someone that came in very closed in and then by the end is an open book. We would also, have a conversation at our last session that wraps everything up and give the girls one last chance to speak up on whether they would do the session again, or did they believe the sessions would be beneficial to other girls, and what could be done differently for the next group of women. In our vision having a successful group means that are women took something away from every session. If someone was struggling with dating due to their past and now they could come back to a session and tell the group about how they are dating a great man, then we know that the individuals taking something away from the sessions. Watching the women grow through new experiences or them even trying new mechanism would show us that the group is successful. Looking ahead, if our group session seems to not progress with each session and people are not willing to open up and take new ideas to help themselves, then that would make us aware that the group is