Empowering Children: Body Safety Education and Prevention

Teaching a topic like sexual abuse is multi-faceted, involving age-appropriate teaching methods and ensuring that children are informed in a sensitive and developmentally appropriate manner. This session will explore how to teach children in age-appropriate, empowering ways—giving them the tools to understand healthy boundaries, recognize unsafe situations, and speak up when something feels wrong. *This course satisfies ASHA's ethics requirement

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Teaching a topic like sexual abuse is multi-faceted. It involves age-appropriate teaching methods, ensuring that children are informed in a sensitive and developmentally appropriate manner. It also includes empowering children to speak up, teaching them about healthy boundaries, safe and unsafe touches, and the significance of reporting suspicious behavior. This session will explore how to teach children in age-appropriate, empowering ways—giving them the tools to understand healthy boundaries, recognize unsafe situations, and speak up when something feels wrong. A comprehensive approach will be discussed that includes creating a supportive environment and understanding how to respond to a disclosure and the criteria that determine a sexual abuse case. This comprehensive approach can help protect children and create a safer environment for them.

Registration to this course includes our free resource, "Teaching Body Safety & Autonomy: Adaptations for Neurodivergent Learners." This resource provides practical strategies to help families, educators, and therapists teach body
safety and autonomy for students with language delays and neurodiverse profiles.

Presenters

Deanna Hynes
Deanna Hynes endured sexual abuse from her biological father throughout her childhood. While she found the courage to tell at 13 years old, her cries for help were ignored by her mother. Knowing she wasn’t going to be helped, Deanna stopping asking for help and buried the family secret.After 7 years of silence, Deanna disclosed to her boyfriend. This began her journey of advocacy and education. Since 2014, Deanna has presented to over 150,000 on sexual abuse through Erin’s Law. In November of 2018, Deanna’s father was convicted and sentenced to a total of 60 years for the abuse against her sister.In April of 2019 he accepted a 6-year plea agreement for the abuse against Deanna, ending a 4-year court process to seek justice. While being a fierce advocate for victims and survivors, Deanna is also a mom, wife, and sometimes runner! She is ecstatic to be a part the Childhood Victories team and to empower more children to use their voice.
Victor Pacini
Victor Pacini is one of the most sought after speakers and trainers on the topics of sexual abuse or Erin’s Law for children.He understands the delicate nature of abuse. Not only is he a survivor of sexual abuse, but his sister was murdered in 2001 due to domestic violence. His dynamic Erin’s Law curriculum has been delivered to over 1,000,000 children and parents. He’s been referred by school administrators as, “The most unique and effective presenter of sexual assault awareness.” He is the author of Winning Within, There’s Only One You, Be Seen and Heard (Erin’s Law Content), Your VOICE, My Dreams, and has recorded two music CD’s. His ultimate goal is to help children and parents increase their knowledge and awareness about the topic of sexual abuse and domestic violence. He does this by delivering it from a fresh and positive perspective.

Learning Objectives

Describe the importance of safe touch/unsafe touch education base on the statistics.
Describe what sexual abuse education is and isn't.
Discuss age-appropriate techniques that effectively educate on the topic of sexual abuse.
Explain how to respond if a child discloses sexual abuse.

Agenda

3 minutes	Introduction+ statistics
3 minutes	What Sexual Abuse Education is and isn't
3 minutes	Survivor Story Number 1
2 minutes	Why We Don't Use Terms Like Good Touch/Bad Touch
6 minutes	How to Appropriately Teach this Topic
3 minutes	Importance of Trust and Communication and Safe Secrets/Unsafe Secrets
2 minutes	Importance of Inner Sirens
12 minutes	Discuss Disclosure & Survivor Story Number 2
8 minutes	Criteria for What Makes a Sexual Abuse Case
4 minutes	What are "Red Flag" Questions
2 minutes	How to Teach This Education to Students with Special Needs
6 minutes	Frequently Asked Questions
6 minutes	How Can This Education Be Delivered to Students + Testimonials

Disclosures

Financial Disclosures:	Victor Pacini is the owner of Childhood Victories Inc where he receives a salary. Childhood Victories receives compensation for body safety curriculum from schools. Childhood Victories received a speaker fee for this presentation. Victor is the creator or co-creator of a a multitude of body safety curriculum on the topics of sexual abuse, dating violence, gun safety, human trafficking and exploitation, and many others. Childhood Victories receives financial compensation for all of their body safety curriculum presented in person, live stream, or online where school counselors or teachers facilitate the curriculum. Deanna is a presenter for Childhood Victories and co-creator of a variety of programs listed in this description.
Non-Financial Disclosures:	Victor and Deanna have no additional non-financial relationships to disclose.
Content Disclosures:	Victor and Deanna have no additional content information to disclose.

ASHA

This course is offered for .1 ASHA CEUs, Introductory Level, Professional Area

Empowering Children: Body Safety Education and Prevention: $29.00
Teaching a topic like sexual abuse is multi-faceted, involving age-appropriate teaching methods and ensuring that children are informed in a sensitive and developmentally appropriate manner. This session will explore how to teach children in age-appropriate, empowering ways—giving them the tools to understand healthy boundaries, recognize unsafe situations, and speak up when something feels wrong. Includes access to the recorded course and optional ASHA reporting.

Add-ons

Grammar Intervention: A Contextualized Approach for SLPs

$29.00

This course reviews evidence-based practices for teaching spoken grammar in context, helping school-based SLPs move beyond traditional drill activities. Learn practical strategies to create meaningful mini-units that promote generalization across a variety of grammar targets. Includes access to the recorded course and optional ASHA reporting.