K-12 Prevention Education
For students and faculty
Programming Requests
If you are interested in prevention programming, please fill out this form to request programming. One of our prevention specialists will be in contact within 2-3 business days.
Available Programming Topics
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EmpowerED
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EmpowerED: A comprehensive guide designed to equip educators, peer facilitators, and mentors with the tools and knowledge to teach high school students about sexual violence and related topics. The lessons aim to foster understanding, promote prevention, and empower students with practical strategies for building respectful relationships and protecting their well-being. The manual provides session plans, activities, discussion points, and resources covering topics such as consent, self-care, online safety, human trafficking, self-defense, and healthy communication. Each session is designed to engage students through interactive learning, enabling them to explore these important issues in a safe and supportive environment.
6 - 8 grade, 9 - 12 grade
Body Safety
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Be The Boss Of Your Body: This body safety curriculum was developed by WV FRIS to support Erin Merryn’s Law, as well as support schools, parents, and communities in providing body safety education. There are nine lessons complete with detailed plans for using stories, lessons, activities, and coloring sheets to teach body safety education from a place of empowerment, not fear.
K - 5 grade
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Body Safety: This involves being able to understand consent, when consent is not given, and when boundary lines have been crossed.
6 - 8 grade
Child & Teen Safety Matters
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MBF Child Safety Matters® is a comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum for elementary school students in grades K-5. The program educates and empowers children and all relevant adults with information and strategies to prevent, recognize, and respond appropriately to bullying, cyberbullying, all types of abuse, and digital abuse dangers.
K - 5 grade
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MBF Teen Safety Matters® is a comprehensive, evidence-informed prevention education program for middle school students in grades 6-8 and high-school students in grades 9-12. The program educates and empowers teens and all relevant adults with information and strategies to prevent, recognize, and respond appropriately to bullying, cyberbullying, all types of abuse, relationship abuse, digital dangers, exploitation, and human trafficking.
9 - 12 grade
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MBF After-School Safety Matters® is a comprehensive, evidence-informed prevention education program for youth in grades K-8 in after-school programs and youth-serving organizations. The program teaches children and adults how to prevent, recognize, and respond appropriately to the four types of child abuse (physical, emotional, sexual, neglect), bullying, cyberbullying, and digital dangers. It is presented to youth in grade-level clusters (K-2, 3-5, and 6-8) with 6 topic-specific lessons (30 – 60 minutes each) by trained facilitators using a turnkey script. The lessons include lectures, group discussions, skills-practice activities, games, and crafts.
K - 5 grade, 6 - 8 grade
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MBF Athlete Safety Matters® is a comprehensive, evidence-informed curriculum that educates and empowers youth athletes with information and strategies to prevent, recognize, and respond appropriately to bullying, cyberbullying, all types of abuse, and digital dangers. The program is presented to youth athletes clustered by grade level (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12), in two comprehensive lessons that are approximately 45-55 minutes each – or it can be presented in four shorter lessons. Trained facilitators can easily present the lessons in any venue using turnkey scripts along with engaging, interactive PowerPoints including lecture, group discussion, skills-practice activities, videos, and games.
K - 12 grade
Mind Matters
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Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience
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People experiencing ongoing stress or prior trauma often have difficulty regulating their emotional responses when facing challenges in school and work, life and relationships. As participants learn the skills and strategies in Mind Matters, they can begin to take charge of themselves and their responses to what life throws at them. Participants learn to address their physical, relational, and mental health needs.
6 - 8 grade, 9 - 12 grade
Bystander Intervention
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Being harassed or abused, regardless of the why (race, sex, religion, gender, size, orientation, disability, age, origin, etc) is a very traumatic experience. But imagine that it happens while surrounded by lots of others (bystanders) who see what is happening, but then do nothing. The steps of intervening include being able to identify potentially risky behaviors and recognize behaviors that could lead to a high risk situation, identify how you decide whether or not to take action (There is no “right way” to show support to someone being targeted and harassed), identify what options you have to take action, and build necessary skills to feel confident in taking action. The goals of bystander intervention are to reduce harm in the moment and make our presence known to the person who is being harassed or has the potential to be hurt, and ultimately change the behaviors that could cause harm, and also to continue to be a bystander after harmful things occur by following up and working with others to create a culture of respect.
9 - 12 grade
Coaching Boys Into Men & Coaching Leadership, Equity, & Respect (CLEAR)
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Athletic coaches play an extremely influential and unique role in the lives of young men, often serving as a parent or mentor to the boys they coach. Because of these special relationships, coaches are uniquely poised to positively influence how young men think and behave both on, and off, the field.
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FUTURES’ Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM) program leverages the power of sports by providing high school athletic coaches with the resources they need to promote respectful behavior among their players and help prevent relationship abuse, harassment, and sexual assault. For more than a decade, the program has been implemented in communities across the U.S. and around the world. From Sacramento and Dallas, to India and South Africa, the program’s messages have proven universal.
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CLEAR is designed to reach a wide range of individuals, including athletes, coaches, educators, healthcare professionals, and community members. CLEAR has been shown to have a positive impact on reducing violence and promoting healthy relationships
9 - 12 grade coaches
Healthy Relationships
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Relationship Plus 3.0: Relationships and Romance for Teens
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Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.1: A 13-lesson evidence-based relationship skills curriculum for young teens (ages 12-16). The curriculum integrates positive youth development, life skills, healthy relationships, dating violence prevention, and pregnancy prevention in a comprehensive healthy relationship skills program. It is designed to help teens learn how to make wise choices about relationships, dating, partners, sex, and more.
6 - 8 grade, 9 - 12 grade
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Healthy Relationships, Dating, and Boundaries: Define and Explore Boundaries, Define Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships, Understand the Signs of Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships, Explore Abusive Behaviors
9 - 12 grade
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Middle School Healthy Relationships 2.0: In middle school, many of you will start dating. I want to make sure you are all prepared for when that happens, so that you can be safe and have fun. We’re going to learn some basic definitions today and some of what makes relationships healthy or unhealthy.
6 - 8 grade
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Healthy Relationships for Teens: Today we’ll be talking about what some of the signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships are, and how to respond to them and have better relationships ourselves.
6 - 8 grade, 9 - 12 grade
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Healthy Relationships Group: Define healthy vs. unhealthy relationships; Power & Control Wheel; Explore Boundaries
9 - 12 grade
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High School Healthy Relationships: Have you ever been in an unhealthy relationship? Have you ever had a friend in an unhealthy relationship and wanted to help them? Today we’ll be talking about what some of the signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships are, and how to respond to them and have better relationships ourselves.
9 - 12 grade
Male Survivors
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Male Survivor Engagement: Sexual violence is often framed as a women’s issue, but while it is true that women are often the victims and men the perpetrators, the issue runs deeper than gender. We know that sexual violence thrives in the darkness – in ignorance. Today we’ll be talking about it in an effort to shed light on the problem and arm ourselves with the knowledge and tools to have conversations about it. We’re going to explore the unique experience men and boys face when they are the victims of sexual violence, how to support survivors, and the ways in which men and boys can be allies in the fight to end sexual violence for everyone.
9 - 12 grade
Sexual Violence 101
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SV 101: What is sexual violence? Do you feel safe? Have you ever felt uncomfortable around someone? What is consent? Do you know where to go to talk to someone?
6-8 grade, 9 - 12 grade
Human Trafficking
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A21: The aim of this curriculum is to provide students with knowledge about how they can identify and respond to situations where they may be vulnerable to exploitation and human trafficking.
K - 5 grade, 6 - 8 grade, 9 - 12 grade
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Human Trafficking 101: defining HT, how does it happen, familiar trafficking, landlord trafficking, survival sex
9 - 12 grade
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Human Trafficking: Look at video examples of HT and how youth end up there
9 - 12 grade
SAHC Services
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SAHC Services: Introduction to SAHC, history, services, advocacy
9 - 12 grade
Sexual Harassment
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Sexual Harassment: Defining sexual harassment and all if its forms.
9 - 12 grade
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Workplace Sexual Harassment: What is sexual harassment in the workplace? Do you feel safe at your workplace? Have you ever been a victim? Have you ever witnessed any? Does your organization have a policy in place?
9 - 12 grade
Stalking
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Stalking: Stalking is complicated. It is common, it is criminal, it is lethal, and it is preventable. One way we can improve the coordinated community response to stalking is to understand stalking better: To be able to differentiate the misconceptions vs. the reality; To understand how stalking intersects with other crimes and why it’s important to identify stalking - because it is so dangerous, so lethal, such a risk factor for future crime, including murder; To understand the ways stalking impacts someone who is experiencing it, all so we can identify ways we can help and ways that we can all work together to better respond
9 - 12 grade
General Topics
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Socioemotional Learning
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Sexting: To Send or Not to Send: education about online photo sharing and sexting
6 - 8 grade, 9 - 12 grade
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Where’s the Line: Today we are going to do an activity and see if we can spot the difference between friendly gestures and inappropriate behavior.
6 - 8 grade, 9 - 12 grade
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Relationship Red Flags: Identify red flags in relationships
6 - 8 grade, 9 - 12 grade
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The Dating Game: HS or MS work out real life relationship problems through examples
6 - 8 grade, 9 - 12 grade
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Toxic Relationships: MS - how to identify toxic traits in relationships
6 - 8 grade
Self Defense Classes
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Part 1: Introduction Training (90 mins) - Self Defense workshop builds awareness by debunking myths, exploring power and control tactics, and understanding how our brains react to fear to help reduce the risk of harm while learning proactive and reactive techniques.
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Part 2: Advanced Training (90 mins) - This workshop dives deeper into more intense scenarios, addressing the emotional dynamics of encounters with offenders while continuing practical self-defense techniques.
All grades
One Love
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Couplets: These eight, lighthearted, and humorous videos focus on healthy and unhealthy behaviors in both friendships and dating relationships. These short clips jumpstart conversations about friendships and dating relationships, whether healthy or unhealthy.
6 - 8 grade, 9 - 12 grade
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Love Labyrinth: This film shows how emotionally abusive behaviors like gaslighting and volatility can make someone feel like they’re trapped in a maze and unable to get out.
9 - 12 grade
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The Last Drop: Anthony and Sofía relive memories together through a new technology called Retrospect. Soon, we realize that they remember key milestones of their relationship very differently. After feeling isolated, manipulated, and afraid of Anthony for a long time, Sofía needs to decide at the end of the film: stay with the person she loves, or reconnect with her friends and family and navigate the end of this difficult relationship?
9 - 12 grade
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Behind the Post: Social media can skew our view of the relationships around us and influence our decision to stay in unhealthy ones. Billions of photos are posted to social media every day, but you can’t always see the big picture through the small ones, especially when it comes to unhealthy relationships. Behind the Post is your go-to workshop for educating about digital consent and social media.
9 - 12 grade
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Escalation: Escalation is a compelling film that tells the story of an abusive relationship –– from its sweet beginnings to the tragic end. The authentic depiction of unhealthy behaviors escalating into abuse helps people recognize and understand the early signs of relationship abuse.
9 - 12 grade
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MVP: MVP is a film that focuses on the ways healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors can influence our romantic relationships, friendships, and daily activities. We specifically see how Miles, a star basketball player, experiences unhealthy behaviors from his girlfriend, Jess, challenging traditional stereotypes about who is affected by relationship abuse.
9 - 12 grade
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Door Three: A loving, joking group of queer friends get serious when one of the group’s on again/off again relationships takes a turn they can no longer ignore. Door Three looks at the challenges of being friends with someone in an unhealthy relationship. In the film, Emery and Indigo try to figure out how to help Dae, who resists their support while being in an unhealthy relationship for two years.
9 - 12 grade
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The Ghost Club: When four friends go ghost hunting, there is no telling what secrets might come out of the dark. The Ghost Club is a three-episode series that focuses on the way that healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors show up in our friendships, romantic relationships, and sibling relationships. Each of the characters show both healthy and unhealthy behaviors as they navigate the everyday, normalized, yet complex dynamics in different types of relationships. 6 - 8 grade
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The Halls II: This three-part series focuses on two high school relationships and several other interwoven stories that represent a diverse array of racial, cultural, and sexual identities. Central themes include healthy and unhealthy behaviors, consent, healthy conflict, exploring masculinity, and boundary setting within all types of relationships. The Halls II Workshop was created by One Love in partnership with Start Strong, an internationally-recognized peer leadership program through the Boston Public Health Commission, based in Boston, MA.
9 - 12 grade
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Friendlets: These 45 second animated videos focus on the way that healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors show up in our friendships. Each of the five animations has two parts: the first half shows an unhealthy scenario, and the second half repeats the scenario using healthier behaviors. All of the characters show both healthy and unhealthy behaviors as they grapple with how to speak up, support each other, and advocate for themselves.
6 - 8 grade
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Amor del Bueno: Amor del Bueno is a riveting and relatable 15-minute film written and produced by two former One Love Teen Ambassadors. The film portrays a high school aged Latinx couple going through an abusive relationship. While Julio and Mariana’s relationship may look like amor del bueno or real love on the surface, this film shows how their unhealthy relationship unfolds, providing a jumping off point for a conversation about the 10 Signs of a Healthy and Unhealthy Relationship.
9 - 12 grade
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Healthy Relationships and the Disabled Community: This workshop explores the unique strengths and challenges of building healthy dating relationships and friendships with and among those with disabilities.
9 - 12 grade
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Jun and Jayden: Two young men, Jun and Jayden, are forced to reevaluate their friendship over the course of a week at the skatepark. This film portrays how negative life experiences can sometimes unintentionally impact our behaviors and result in hurting the people we love most.
9 - 12 grade
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Road Trip: After a one-sided breakup, Aladi wants to fix his relationship with Raven, but his best friend, Mo, just wants to go to Comic-Con. This film dives into themes of masculinity, digital communication, and how to help a friend in an unhealthy relationship.
9 - 12 grade
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Fight Night: A high school student, Eli, must make a decision when his friend group pressures him into violence that goes against who he really is, just as his childhood friend, Amil, comes back into his life.
9 - 12 grade
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Healthy LGBTQ + Relationships: This workshop engages participants with material about the challenges and situations LGBTQ+ people may face in the context of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
6 - 8 grade, 9 - 12 grade
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