Teacher/Staff/Workplace Trainings

Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Training
This 3.5 hour training will teach adults to prevent, recognize, and react to situations of child sexual abuse. This is a prefect training for parents/guardians, adults who work with youth, staff in child care centers, and other organizations that work with children and youth. Click here for more information about this program.

Healthy Sexuality and the Normalization of Sexual Harm
Popular culture is saturated with images of violence, especially sexual violence perpetrated on women and girls. With the help of research by two prominent professionals in the sexual violence field, Cordelia Anderson from Sensibilities, Inc. in Minnesota and Brad Perry from Virginia's Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, this workshop explores stereotypes in society and how they may contribute to violence, especially for women and girls. Emphasis will be placed on the images of sexual harm in popular media and how they affect society and the concepts of "healthy sexuality."

Mandated Reporting
The STSM Mandated Reporter Training is perfect for businesses, schools and organizations that work with youth. This training includes an overview of South Carolina mandated reporting law, situations that constitute making a report, where and when to make a report, and resources in our community.

Sexual Assault 101
This workshop is an overview of the key concepts related to the topic of sexual assault. Participants will be introduced to the idea of consent, the Criminal Sexual Assault laws in SC, the statistics related to sexual assault and rape, the effects of this type of trauma on survivors.

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Despite it being illegal, sexual harassment in the workplace is a reality for all-too many working individuals. In one survey, 9 out of 10 women under 50 who served in the US military reported being SH while in the service. Another study found that 83% of girls and 79% of boys in High School report having ever experienced harassment. In 2003, 19% of employees reported being harassed in the past 12 months. In 2007, the US Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission received 12,510 charges of sexual harassment. 16.0% of those charges were filed by males. This number has been rising for the past few years.
This training defines what actions are sexual harassment; explores federal and SC state laws & the impact of harassment on the victim, the acused, and the organization/office; and details how to recognize, prevent, and report sexual harassment in the office.

Teen Dating Violence
Research shows that physical or sexual abuse is a part of 1 in 3 high school relationships. And one in every four women experiences domestic violence in her lifetime. This training discusses healthy versus unhealthy relationships and serves as an overview of intimate partner violence and its effects on victims (adult and youth). The workshop introduces audience to early warning signs of abuse and ways to reduce risks in relationships, as well as increases understanding of what to do to prevent relationship violence and what to do in the event that someone you know is in an abusive relationship.

Contact the Community Education Director at STSM via email or call 803-790-8208 x124 to schedule a training or to discuss requirements.