Home Request Your Free Newsletter Ways to Help Doctor or ER? What Every Parent Should Know About Vaccinations Health Bits Beware of Supplements for Kids Food for Thought Could Your Child Have a Drug Problem? Project S.P.E.A.K. Helps to Protect Teens Research – Key to Improving Pediatric Care Free Lectures For Parents Children’s Hospital Research Saves and Improves Children’s Lives

Project S.P.E.A.K. Helps to Protect Teens A new curriculum for intermediate and high school students on Oahu is being piloted by the Sex Abuse Treatment Center to help teens recognize and prevent sexual violence in their lives. Project S.P.E.A.K. (Sexual Assault Prevention, Education, Awareness and Knowledge) uses role-playing, interactive exercises and analytical skill-building activities to help students understand the connections between media/peer influences, issues of power and control, stereotyping, sexual harassment and sexual assault. The program includes six 45-minute sessions, each covering a different aspect of sexual assault. The curriculum is offered to all seventh-, eighth- and 10th-grade health classes on Oahu. For more information, please call the Sex Abuse Treatment Center at 808-535-7600. “I’m glad I learned how to prevent sexual harassment because now I feel more safe.” Dole Intermediate School student “I learned that sexual assault is really about someone taking power and control over someone else.” Iolani High School student