Lindy—THANK YOU. Thank you for speaking about this so eloquently, for writing about it, for putting a public face to this, and doing so with compassion and a sense of humor. You are truly brilliant and I am so grateful to have you on our team. Thank you for putting up with this bullshit to make the world a better,…

And the standards and benchmarks, at least here where I'm at, definitely include conversations about healthy relationships, but any of this relies heavily on the ability of the health teacher to discuss these topics. Sometimes they are totally great and on board, but I've also found, working on statewide prevention…

Well, really, yay for a community who is receptive to these issues and actively willing to provide a forum for discussion. I am super grateful that my agency, my colleagues and all of the health teachers I work with identify this as a need and keep me in a job :-)

This. Is. Great. Thanks! Xo.

Will do!

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Raphael House. Are you in PDX?!?

I know how rough it is. Call your local dv/sa agency. See what kind of prevention education programming they have. We're piloting an awesome program called Coaching Boys Into Men next school year, developed by the national nonprofit, Futures Without Violence. Their work is amazing and if nothing is going on in your…

I do this for a living! I run an education program for a domestic violence agency in Portland. It IS happening, just not everywhere or often enough.

Um, I really can't think of any schools that DON'T have a sexual assault problem. We, our society, our culture, our world, have a sexual assault problem. I'm glad attention is being paid to it, though.