Addressing Dating and Sexual Violence and Harassment in School-Based Health
Title: Addressing Dating and Sexual Violence and Harassment in School-Based Health
Day/Time: Thursday April 27th, 3:30pm-5:00pm Pacific
Description: Teens experiencing of relationship abuse are more likely to report unhealthy diet behaviors, engage in substance abuse, and report having suicidal thoughts. Given these sobering facts, adolescent relationship abuse is a major health concern facing teens today, and health care providers have a unique role to play in preventing it. Not only can they provide valuable prevention messages to help their patients build healthy relationships, but medical professionals are also uniquely positioned to help those exposed to abuse access the resources they need.
Clinical settings that serve adolescents in particular, such as confidential teen clinics and school health centers, are strategic sites for adolescent health promotion, prevention, and intervention. Unfortunately, the standard-of-care within adolescent health settings does not currently include specified protocols to assess for or intervene to reduce dating and sexual violence and harassment. This webinar guidelines will provide participants with strategies and tools to provide universal education on safe, consensual and healthy relationships, as well as models for trauma-informed responses to disclosure of DSV.
Learn more about an evidence-based intervention and new community activism tools as Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to a close!
Speakers:
- Erica Monasterio, MN, FNP-BC, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Nursing, Division of Adolescent Medicine and Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
