Prevention
Clove Alliance goes beyond responding to the needs of survivors of sexual assault with efforts to prevent it from occurring in the first place. In fact, the elimination of sexual violence is a key tenant of our mission.
Preventing sexual violence involves more than raising awareness and informing community members about available services. It requires shifting social norms that contribute to sexual violence, promoting the norms and behaviors that foster safe communities, and taking action to advance social justice.
Clove Alliance provides prevention activities and training support to our partners in building effective prevention strategies in their communities.
To learn more about our training, education, or outreach efforts, contact us at 815-932-7273, email [email protected], or fill out this form and someone from our staff will contact you.
School-Based Prevention Programs
Clove Alliance is committed to taking an active role in preventing child sexual abuse within our community. Research shows that the most effective way to prevent abuse is to talk to children about body safety. Our body safety lessons are intended to teach valuable safety skills, in an age-appropriate format and fulfill the Erin’s Law Mandate.
As children develop, our programs expand to discuss crucial topics like boundaries, healthy relationships, consent, and sexual violence. We believe that empowering youth to stand against sexual harm is a powerful tool for ending it.
Pre-k Through College
Pre-K through 3rd Grade
Training for school staff to provide educators with the knowledge and resources to present sexual abuse prevention lessons to their students.
4th and 5th Grade
4th Grade:
Reviews tricks, bribes, and threats perpetrators use to gain and maintain trust and secrecy, as well as develop skills for assertiveness.
5th Grade:
Emphasizes safe decision-making in difficult situations and reviews grooming techniques.
6th Grade through 8th Grade
6th Grade:
Empowers students to set their own boundaries within relationships.
7th Grade:
Raises awareness of the importance of being an active bystander and how to intervene safely.
8th Grade:
Defines consent and how to recognize boundaries within friendships and relationships. Develops skills in assertiveness and respect.
Highschool: 9th Grade through 12th Grade
9th Grade:
Identifies types of sexual harassment and the effects they can have. Highlights available reporting options.
10th Grade
Defines consent and how to recognize boundaries within relationships. Develops skills in assertiveness and respect.
11th Grade:
Empowers students to recognize behaviors as healthy, unhealthy, or abusive. Teaches strategies to help peers who may be in abusive relationships.
12th Grade:
Raises awareness of the importance of being an active bystander and how to intervene safely. Discusses the bystander effect.
Students Against Sexual Harassment (SASH)
Students Against Sexual Harassment (SASH) is a student-led group that is committed to ending sexual violence and changing social norms within high schools. The committee is composed of students from different high schools across the county who meet and plan social events for their peers to raise awareness about sexual harm. Committees are active in both Kankakee and Iroquois County.
College
Our Preventionists speak on college campuses—at club meetings, events, and during lectures. Our training and presentation topics are customized to fit the specific needs of each organization—and no group is too small.
To bring Clove Alliance to your school, contact us at 815-932-7273, email [email protected], or fill out this form and someone from our staff will contact you.
Resources and Trainings for Educators
Body Safety Training
Ideal for educators and school staff who work with children ages PreK-3rd grade, this training will help your school fulfill the Erin’s Law mandate. Participants will learn how to present age-appropriate sexual abuse prevention lessons. In addition, all resources and materials required for these lessons will be provided.
Mandated Reporter Training
This training will help you better understand your responsibilities and protections as a mandated reporter while learning how to make an effective report of suspected child abuse/neglect. Signs and symptoms of sexual abuse will also be discussed. Ideal for all school employees.
Response to Disclosure Training
Enhances knowledge of sexual violence and its impact on survivors, and provides tools to respond appropriately to disclosures. Applicable for all school employees.
Lending Library
Research has shown that teaching children lessons on sexual abuse prevention multiple times throughout the school year is highly important for reducing risk. Clove Alliance’s Lending Library equips our local schools with classroom kits of ready-to-use, hands-on resources for both virtual and in-person body safety lessons. Lessons are available for checkout by school staff and include resources for kindergarten through 3rd-grade students. Three lessons are available at each grade level and cover topics on sexual abuse prevention, body safety, and gender equality and acceptance.
To schedule a training or to check out resources from the Lending Libary, contact us at 815-932-7273, email [email protected], or fill out this form and someone from our staff will contact you.
Community Based Prevention Programs
TruSelf Empowerment
The TruSelf Empowerment program recognizes the importance of planting seeds of empowerment at an early age to help diffuse many of the challenging issues students face during their teen years and beyond. Through thoughtful and interactive practices, each participant is given a foundation to love, honor, and respect themselves. Discussion topics include healthy friendships and relationships, positive self-esteem and body image, healthy assertiveness, identifying goals and dreams, loving yourself first, working with emotions, and more! This is a group that will meet between 6 and 8 times.
Talking to Your Kids About Sexual Abuse
Parents will learn different strategies to talk to their children about appropriate touch, boundaries, body safety, and more. Parents will also learn how to spot signs of sexual abuse and helpful ways to handle disclosures.
Community-based prevention programs are offered throughout the year. To learn about upcoming sessions, or to host one, contact us at 815-932-7273, email [email protected], or fill out this form and someone from our staff will contact you.
Resources and Training for the Community
Community Workshops and Training
Clove Alliance is dedicated to sharing our expertise in sexual violence prevention as we work to end it in our community.
Community workshops are tailored to the needs and context of each group and are highly interactive to engage, stimulate, and challenge participants on this critical and complex topic. We have a long history of working with:
- Parent groups
- Summer camps
- University students,
- Law enforcement
- Hospitality staff
- Sports teams
- Businesses and more
Clove Alliance offers a variety of workshops that can be adapted for the needs and level of each group including “Talking to Your Kids About Sexual Abuse”, “Sexual Harassment Prevention”, “What is Consent?”, “Healthy Relationships”, and “Bystander Intervention”.
Workshops and trainings can be scheduled during both business and evening hours.
Events
Clove Alliance is available to provide resource tables at local events such as resource fairs, conferences, festivals, orientations, and more.
Contact us at [email protected] or 815-932-7273, to invite us to your next community event.