For our community members, programs are offered to various organizations, groups and businesses. Topics include but not limited to: domestic violence, sexual assault, Women’s Center Services, intervention strategies, sexual harassment and violence in the workplace. These programs are adaptable to meet every organizations’ needs.

Another important part of our education department is our services to children. As educators, we feel that prevention is always a key when dealing with many of the issues, which face our children, in today’s society. We offer our prevention services in a non-offensive way, to help children of all ages understand the impact of violence. We also offer healthy alternatives to violence when these unsafe situations occur.

All of our programming is offered at no cost.

 School Programs
Educational Programming for children and adolescents utilizes role-plays, lecture, workbooks, handouts, group discussion and visual aides.

Pre-School Programs (3 programs are available): Stranger Safety, Touch Safety and Anti-Bullying. Program length is 30 minutes. Each program includes a 20-minute puppet show with coloring/activity booklet, teaching basic safety rules. (Recommended for children ages 4-5 years old)

Elementary Programming
Safe Keeping Jr. (2 programs are available): Stranger Safety and Touch Safety. Each program entails a puppet show with supporting coloring/activity book discussing stranger safety and touch safety. Program length is 1 hour. (Recommended for   grades K-2)

Safe Keeping Sr. (2 programs are available): Safety and Touch Safety. Both programs utilize interactive discussion, supporting activity book and video to help children learn stranger and touch safety. Program length is 1.5 hours. (Recommended for grades 3-5)

Anti-Bullying Program: This program includes puppet shows, role-plays and activity booklet. (Recommended for K-2nd grade). Program involves classroom discussion, role-plays, and activity booklet. (Recommended for grades 3 –5). Both programs stress healthy interpersonal relationships among children. Teaches basic safety rules to bullying, teasing and other interpersonal conflicts among students. Complimentary program available for educators.  
 
Self-Esteem Program (Grades 3-5): Utilizes current trends and celebrity visual aids to discuss unrealistic images of beauty and celebrate the diversity of ourselves and peers. The program strives to help females embrace the natural beauty within themselves through interactive activities and discussion. Program length 40 minutes- 1 hour.

Internet Safety Program (Grades 3-5):  This program uses a fun, interactive cartoon-animated Power Point presentation where Netsmartz friends teach children ways to stay safe while surfing the Internet. The program focuses on teaching children to keep their identity private while using the Internet and also teaches safety rules they can use if they encounter strangers while on the Internet. Program length 45 minutes.

Middle & High School Programming

Dating Safety: teaches teens to recognize dating violence, rights in a relationship and safety options.

Healthy Relationships: presents information on sexual assault, power and control, awareness of date rape drug issues, healthy relationships and safety measures.

Self-Esteem Program (Grades 6-12): Utilizes current trends and celebrity visual aids to discuss unrealistic images of beauty and celebrate the diversity of ourselves and peers. The program strives to help females embrace the natural beauty within themselves through interactive activities and discussion. Program length 40 minutes- 1 hour.

Internet Safety Program (Grades 6-12): This program will include information about how to avoid possible dangers while surfing the Information Highway. Topics include posting private information on social networks like Facebook and My Space along with, text messaging  and cyberbullying. Students will learn Internet safety strategies through interactive lecture and handouts. Program length 45 minutes

Teens and Bullying: Presents information to students on boundaries, awareness and impact of bullying, teaches safe strategies in response to bullying. Program utilizes classroom discussion, interactive exercises and a video. Program length 45 minutes. (Recommended for grades 6 –12)

Programming utilizes classroom discussion, handouts, interactive exercises and a video. Program length of each program is 45-60 minutes.

College Programming

All of our programs are available to sororities, clubs, orientation programs and for the classroom.


Professional Workshops

Anti-Bullying Training for Educators and Parents: Designed to educate teachers and parents about the prevalence of bullying, intervention strategies, and skills that educators can teach children experiencing bullying.

Additional workshops on a variety of topics are available. All programming is offered at no cost. For more information contact The Women’s Center at (570) 784-6632.                                                                          

Aside from classroom education programs, the Women’s Center offers a wide variety of community education programs. Our education programming services also includes workplace trainings for managers and employees.  

                                                                                                                                                                               

Did you know that domestic violence costs United States businesses 3 to 5 billion dollars annually? How? Lost productivity, turnover, stress absenteeism, increased health cost and employee safety just to name a few. Did you know that women are five times as likely as men to be victims of violence at work at the hand of an intimate partner? Often work can become the only place the assailant can locate and harm the victim.

Our program entitled “When Domestic Violence Comes to the Workplace” is a four part series designed to assist managers develop skills and strategies for reducing domestic violence in their workplace.  Resource manuals, posters and brochures are available. Our program and support materials are offered to local businesses at no cost.

A workplace response can make a difference. Here are some easy ways for your business to get involved:

> Train managers/employees about domestic violence including workplace policies

> Create your own company response policy to domestic violence

> Display posters and information about domestic violence with phone numbers where victims can get help in restrooms, lunch & break rooms.

> Be informed of available domestic violence resources in your community 

"I think even a poster in the lunch room would make me know I wasn’t going to be completely off the wall. If I knew somebody cared enough to hang a poster like that, I would have felt a little better about saying something in my present job.”         - Survivor    

    

                                         Domestic Violence Awareness Event 
                                                          October 2007

Our exhibit showcased a casket draped with flowers  to represent the ultimate price of domestic violence in Montour and Columbia counties.

        

 

No More Monsters at My House (Children's Art Exhibit) Copyrighted 2004© All Rights Reserved Our art exhibit showcases artwork created by children who experienced domestic violence. Many of the children no longer live in violent homes. To assist viewers in understanding the context of each piece, each child has provided an artist statement. Twenty-six children submitted over one hundred pieces of artwork for consideration in the exhibit. The selection process was difficult. But with outside assistance, we selected and now proudly present to the community our children's art exhibit. Copyrighted 2004© All Rights Reserved Artwork Framed by: Art Ventures Framery  "I painted a sunset because I like sunsets and because we used to see them all the time where we used to live." Girl, age 8 Our children's art exhibit is available for display. Please call The Women's Center at 784-6632 for more information.