Parent Playlist: Top 5 Resources for Parents and Caregivers

March 17, 2023 |
VALOR

 

VALOR recognizes that being a parent can be challenging at times, especially when it comes to raising healthy, kind, and capable humans. Kids often ask tough questions while parents and caregivers have to have difficult conversations. Talking to your child or young person in your life about sexual violence is one of those conversations. With that in mind, VALOR created this Parent Playlist so parents and caregivers feel empowered to have those tough conversations when they come up, focusing on teaching empathy and respect rather than brushing the questions aside. Engaging parents in violence prevention work helps to create safe, trusting relationships between caregivers and youth, which helps move us towards a community free from sexual violence.

 

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1. Recognize Violence, Change Culture

As a national sexual violence prevention organization, Recognize Violence, Change Culture (RVCC) is focused on providing inclusive and easy to implement prevention strategies to build essential skills and safer communities. RVCC has a plethora of resources, outreach materials, interactive activities, and artwork for parents, caregivers, educators, and organizations to use to increase awareness of sexual violence and build empathy and respect for our community members.

 

2. Parents Push Prevention Forward Blog 

VALOR’s “Parents Push Prevention Forward: A Look at a California RPE Program’s Parent Engagement Work” blog discusses parent engagement work within California’s rape prevention education (RPE) program, including addressing mental health and opening a door for continued engagement and relationship building. The resource is useful for preventionists who are looking to engage parents on school campuses. It is also helpful for those looking to collaborate with school administrators to cultivate a healthy relationship between parents and those who support youth.

 

Graphic of the cycle of consequences model.3. Live Respect

Created by A Call to Men, Live Respect and Healthy Masculinity Curriculum: Life Skills and Well-Being for Boys and Young Men offers tools to parents, caregivers, mentors, coaches, educators, and youth advocates focused on building an understanding of violence prevention. This toolkit is designed for boys 10-18 and increases education around promoting healthy masculinity, decreasing beliefs and actions that degrade women and marginalized groups, challenging harmful cultural and social norms, decreasing bullying and homophobia, and promoting healthy relationships.

 

4. Families for SafeDates: Implementation Manual for Parents and Caregivers

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Families for SafeDates manual serves as a family-based teen dating violence prevention program with the goal of educating and engaging caregivers in teen dating violence prevention. There are printable handouts that have questions for teens and caregivers to discuss conflict resolution, recognize teen dating violence, and plan for the future. This is designed for program staff to engage families in prevention work. 

 

5. VALOR’s Car Conversations Guide for Parents and Caregivers

Many families want to have conversations about sexual and domestic violence but don’t quite know where to start. Our Car Conversations Guide was created to help start conversations while traveling to and from school. Parents and caregivers can use the guide to help them navigate difficult conversations about relationships, harassment, consent, and more. These conversations can be challenging, especially if you were not educated about sexual and domestic violence prevention and response. With this guide, parents and caregivers will have the tools to talk about these topics in a way that helps build healthy and respectful relationships.