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My professional perspective is working as a elementary school counselor. I plan to work with students who have faced a specific trauma in sexual violence, while helping educate students, parents, and coworkers on the importance of prevention and response system. I have chosen this topic because it has been a passion of mine the help young children who have experience sexual trauma and abuse in their lives.

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I talked with Meliah Taylor, School Counselor at Bradford Elementary in San Angelo, Texas. Mrs. Taylor discussed the importance of prevention and response for sexual violence and provided some experiences she has faced during her role as a counselor at Bradford.

Why Sexual Violence Prevention and Response is important?
Mrs. Taylor discussed the importance of prevention and response by explaining that many students within our school have experienced sexual violence in some form or fashion. Prevention is the efforts of trying to stop unnecessary acts that cause harm to someone. Mrs. Taylor discussed how to effectively communicate the importance of sexual prevention and response to parents and staff members.

Best Practice:

Adhere to the legal responsibilities of the role of the school counselor including the unique legal and ethical principles of working with minor students in a school setting

Use presentation skills to share effectiveness data and results of action plans and activities with administrators, advisory councils, teachers, faculty and staff, families, school boards and stakeholders

Respond with appropriate intervention strategies to meet the needs of the individual, group or school community before, during and after crisis response

Emerging Issue:
While sexual violence can occur on elementary campuses, it is more likely to occur within high school and college settings. Many students who experience sexual violence experience it at a young age and then their are concerns that they will potential take that with them later on in life and effect someone else. There are ways to show response by training staff members on the specifics of what sexual violence is and who to report to if an issue ever came up in the school setting.

Meliah Taylor, School Counselor, Bradford Elementary: http://schools.saisd.org/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=31008&&PHPSESSID=fd46030fa2c9f03ab7b6a74bb1b0926b

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Resources to Reduce and Respond to Sexual Violence in Schools

This resource is important to the topic of Sexual Violence by providing important information about sexual violence and information that propose prevention and response that help educators and students gain an understanding of the essentials for working with victims of sexual violence.

Link:
https://dpi.wi.gov/sspw/safe-schools/resources-reduce-and-respond-sexual-violence-schools
Cite:
Incitti, J. (2019). Resources to reduce and respond to sexual violence in schools. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Retrieved from: https://dpi.wi.gov/sspw/safe-schools/resources-reduce-and-respond-sexual-violence-schools

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Title: Reports of Sexual Assault at Schools on the Rise, but the Reasons Are Unclear.

Citation: Harper, A. (2019). Reports of sexual assault at schools on the rise, but the reasons are unclear. Education Dive. Retrieved from: https://www.educationdive.com/news/reports-of-sexual-assault-at-schools-on-the-rise-but-the-reasons-are-uncle/560112/

Link: https://www.educationdive.com/news/reports-of-sexual-assault-at-schools-on-the-rise-but-the-reasons-are-uncle/560112/

Summary:

Throughout, the years sexual assault in schools has significantly increased. In the wake of this increase students are taking a stand with the "MeToo" movement. This movement brings awareness to sexual abuse and provides a sort of prevention in order to help protect those who have been harmed by sexual violence.

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Title: Sexual Violence on Campus: Strategies for Prevention.
Citation: Frieden, T. Houry, D. Mercy, J. (2016). Sexual violence on campus: Strategies for prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/campussvprevention.pdf
Link: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/campussvprevention.pdf
Summary:

CDC discusses the seriousness of sexual violence on campus for students. Sexual violence not only causes emotional and physical damages but can cause issues through sexual contracted diseases. CDC sets up a framework of a prevention effort for sexual abuse that includes comprehensive prevention, infrastructure, audience, partnership, and evaluation. This is used to successfully come up with a campus wide prevention program.

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1.     CAPTA: Statutory law
2. About CAPTA: A legislative history. (2019). Child Welfare Information Gateway. Retrieved from: https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/about.pdf
3. CAPTA: https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/about.pdf
4. 1.     CAPTA: Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act is put in place to support prevention, assessment, investigation, prosecution, and treatment for students. Pub. L. No. 111-320 § 5101

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1. Child Abuse Prevention: TEA: Administrative law
2. Child abuse prevention. (2019). Texas Education Agency. Retrieved from: https://tea.texas.gov/Texas_Schools/Safe_and_Healthy_Schools/Child_Abuse_Prevention/Chil_Abuse_Prevention_an_Overview
3.https://tea.texas.gov/Texas_Schools/Safe_and_Healthy_Schools/Child_Abuse_Prevention/Child_Abuse_Prevention_an_Overview
4. Child Abuse Prevention: TEA: Tex. Educ. Code § 38.004 provides policies that govern the reporting of abuse and neglect of a child.

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1. Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Grant: US Code: Statutory law
2. Child abuse prevention and treatment grants. (1986). United States Code. Retrieved from: https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=100&page=905
3. https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=100&page=905
4. Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Grant: provides grants towards the prevention and treatment of child abuse. This public law connects to the public law of CAPTA to ensure the prevention of child abuse. 5 USC §601

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1. Policies Addressing Sexual Abuse and Other Maltreatment of children: Administrative law.
2. Policies addressing sexual abuse and other maltreatment of children. (2019). Texas Education Agency. Retrieved from:      https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.38.htm#38.0041
3. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.38.htm#38.0041
4. Policies Addressing Sexual Abuse and Other Maltreatment of children: Policies that address how staff members stay up to date on issues with sexual abuse. Tex. Educ. Code § 38.0041

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While San Angelo ISD doesn't have a specific law they follow for sexual violence prevention and response, they do provide support that helps with safety and security. SAISD also provides parents with the information on prevention and early intervention programs that are available.

Link: https://www.saisd.org/departments/SafetyAndSecurity/index.asp

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A.9.d. Report to parents/guardians and/or appropriate authorities when students disclose a perpetrated or a perceived threat to their physical or mental well-being. This threat may include, but is not limited to, physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, dating violence, bullying or sexual harassment. The school counselor follows applicable federal, state and local laws and school district policy.

Citation:
American school counselor association. (2016). ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors. Retrieve from: https://www.schoolcounselor.org/asca/media/asca/Ethics/EthicalStandards2016.pdf

Link: https://www.schoolcounselor.org/asca/media/asca/Ethics/EthicalStandards2016.pdf

Providing parents with important information that may harm them mentally or physically is essential in keeping any child safe. It is important to follow all policies and procedure for the well-being of the child and to be a mandated reporter for the state.

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Citation:
Kid power. (2019). Sexual Abuse Prevention. Retrieved from: https://www.kidpower.org/programs/sexual-abuse-prevention/
Link: https://www.kidpower.org/programs/sexual-abuse-prevention/

This website provides an array of information about sexual abuse prevention and key skills that help adults protect children. The programs put in place can even be used as a long distance education for schools and professional agencies.

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Slide 13: What I Have Learned About Sexual Violence Prevention and Response

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Slide 13: What I Have Learned About Sexual Violence Prevention and Response

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1. Sexual Violence Prevention and Response happens more often then the news outlets let us know. When looking for reliable articles to fit into the concepts, it became relevant that even though sexual violence occurs in primary education, it is show cased through mainly secondary education.

2. Educators are required to have minimum hours of training for educators to help prevention and respond to sexual violence.

3.  There is a large amount of prevention programs for children in the united states some even include distant learning.

4. Ethically, it is a counselors obligation if they believe a child is in any danger to report sexual violence findings to their family and/or child protective services.

5. There is arise of movements to help support sexual violence victims and provide necessary knowledge to the public of the movements. #MeToo

6. As a teacher and soon to be counselor who advocates for students, I feel it is necessary to be provided with more training on sexual violence prevention and response.