Platinum membership 2012

Dear Principal/CC: HOD Life orientation

It is with great pleasure that the executive board of Rape Wise South Africa is able to announce that John Buswell has agreed to join Rape Wise on a full time basis and that he has resigned all of his other external commitments.

As we launch our Platinum programme for 2012, John has requested that each province be allocated an equal number of Platinum spots. Rape Wise is proud to announce our all new audio and visual presentations; we have presented these presentations as a pilot project across the county and have had positive feedback from teachers, parents and students.

The provincial allocations will be strictly adhered to:

Platinum 2012 participation is therefore limited and will be strictly allocated on a first come first serve basis.

The cost of the 2012 programme is R 5 500.00 and schools paying now will receive an R500.00 early payment discount. (This payment includes all airfares and accommodation) This discount is applicable until the end of October 2011.

Following our educators training needs survey earlier this year; we have added some exciting additional training topics. (See attached list)

Platinum membership 2012

Platinum 2012 schools will receive the following: 

a.      2 X 1 hour learner presentations

b.      1 X 2 hour accredited educator workshop which includes a certificate for each participant and career development points (A future National Department of Education requirement) Please note that the staff workshop is for your school only

c.       1 X 1 hour parent information evening (Your school can invite other schools as well as members of your community to join the evening)

Your parent evening may be substituted with an additional learner or educator talk (Duration 1 hour)

d.      10% discount on all Rape Wise workshops and products

e.      Our new Teen Sexuality product for boys and girls to be utilised in the classroom. This product is a PowerPoint and video presentation and covers, puberty, respect and understanding the physical and psychological changes that teens experience.

f.        Access to our 24 hour helpline

g.      A Platinum school certificate

 

About Rape Wise

Rape Wise was established in January 2000. As an organisation, we aim to educate children, teenagers, parents and educators about the dangers that face our youth in South Africa today. Rape Wise assists with the development of Rape Crisis centres throughout South Africa and offers a 24hr helpline. Through on-going workshops and programs such as the Rapteens, Rapkids and ParenTeen, we also aim to foster a caring community around the issues of sexual assault and other youth issues.

Some quick facts about us;

• Trained over 40,000 psychologists, social workers and medical professionals

• Educated over 500,000 children and teens

• Manage over 1000 rape cases per year

• Assist the South African Police with profiling sexual offenders

• Pro-actively drive workshops and programs to raise awareness around rape and sexual safety

 Training topics for 2012 

New topics (Option 1 – Option 4)

Choose

Staff:                Choose option

Learners:         4 topics

Learners are divided into two groups i.e. Grade R-4 and then Grade 5-7, High school groups Grade 8-10 and 11-12 this is due to maturity reasons

Parents:           4 topics

All topics include our new audio visual style

 

Option 1

Emotional impact of separation and divorce on children

• How to support a child in the classroom and make the transition of separation less traumatic

• The effect of parental conflict on the child’s emotional state

• Legal processes affecting children

• The family dynamics of separation and divorce and the child’s experience

• How children can be positively supported through this process

• Working with parents to minimise the harmful effects on children

• Reporting cases of domestic violence

Option 2

Identifying and dealing with disorders in children and teenagers in the classroom

• The causes of childhood disorders

• Eating disorders

• Attention deficit disorder

• Learning disabilities

• Dyslexia

• Tourette syndrome

• Oppositional defiant disorder

• Conduct disorder

• Anxiety and depression

Option 3

Child and teen sexuality

• ·         Sexuality and the junior primary learner

• ·         “Am I normal” – exploring preteens  personal concerns about puberty

• ·         Understanding & teaching the emotional & physical changes experienced by children going through puberty

• ·         Puberty and girls

• ·         Puberty in boys

• ·         Teaching about the female menstrual cycle

• ·         Conception and pregnancy

• ·         Virginity and peer pressure

• ·         The laws and sexual exploration

• ·         A loving sexual relationship – moral guidance

• ·         Assisting parents with their children’s sexuality

• ·         Dealing with the most common questions asked by teens and children

• ·         Dealing with homosexuality and providing support for parents

Option 4

Trauma – The advanced

• Understanding the psychological and neurological effects of trauma

• Three phases of trauma

• Symptoms – Pre primary, primary and high school

• Psycho therapy (An understanding)

• Traumatic stress reactions

• Trauma and the effects on child development

• Physical and psychological safety

• The essential elements of trauma informed teaching

• Dealing with traumatic behaviour

• New approaches for changing negative and destructive behaviour

• Referral to the correct professional

• Facilitating a trauma de briefing for children and teens

• Understanding the de briefing model

• Case study

Option 5

Online safety/Gaming addiction

• Online predators

• Paedophilic networks

• Pornography downloads, MXit, You Tube and Facebook, BBM

• School computer protocols

• Symptoms and threats

• Gaming addiction

• Laws regarding pornography downloads

• Cyber bullying

Option 6

Sexual offences and abuse

• Sexual offences amendment act

• Age of consent

• Children’s act

• Responsibility of reporting

• Rape and drug rape (What is my obligation)

• The legal protocol of a pregnant learner

• Management of a Rape Victim

• Caring and support for our learners with HIV

• Child Abuse (Symptoms and signs)

• Who do we contact?

Option 7

School violence and peer victimisation

• Profiling a bully

• Counselling the victim/bully

• Peer group victimisation programme

• Bullying – handling the parent

• Violence prevention programme

• Anger management

• Incident management

• What is the procedure when a child threatens or brings weapons to school

• Case study (Mornè Harmse) and how to prevent and see the sign before it’s too late.

• Hostage negotiation

Option 8

Drugs and alcohol

• Addiction

• Let’s stop drugs campaign

• School dealer networks

• Protocol (Search and testing)

• Hubbly bubbly and the dangers

• Huffing

• Home parties and alcohol

• Alcohol binging

• Procedures to follow when a learner arrives to school drunk

• What every teacher should know about drug rape and how to warn their learners

Topics for learners and parents

• Drugs and your teenager, drug rape, huffing and the dangers of hubbly bubbly

• Home parties, alcohol and binge drinking

• Understanding addiction

• Protecting myself from online predators

• MXit, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, BBM, understanding pornography downloads

• The sexual offences amendment act how does it affect me and my family

• Gaming addiction

• Peer Victimisation, peer pressure, violence and cyber bullying

• Respecting your educators and fellow learners

• Teenage pregnancy

• Depression, self-mutilation and suicide

• Child abuse

• Rape Wise Traffic light (Good and bad touches) – For Grade R to 3 learners

• Anger management

• Protecting your children from online predators

• Understanding child trafficking

• Paedophilic networks

• Mall visits (safety)

• Creating a safe home structure

• Compiling a DNA and identification profile of my child

• Missing child and reporting procedures

• Child abuse

• Chocking game

• Emotional impact of separation and divorce on children

• Teenage sexuality talk for Grade 6 and 7 learners (This is a standalone talk for 1 hour)

• Parents – Dealing with the most common sexuality questions asked by children and teenagers

• How to explain puberty to my son/daughter and deal with embarrassing questions accurately

 

Terms and conditions

• Complete membership form and fax with payment to  086 6967807

• Please contact our offices to arrange your dates as soon as possible

• Payments are to be made in advance to secure your place

• Please contact us regarding any queries or 083 3308535

 

Regards,

The Rape Wise Team

 

Membership application form

Platinum 2012

 

Please use your schools name as reference on all banking transactions, fax completed form and payment to: 086 696 7807

Payment to be made to the following account:

Bank: ABSA

Account Name: Rape Wise

Account number: 9116055338        

 Branch code: 632005