Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Speak Out...

Speak Out Against Intimate Partner Violence...
was the title of my community outreach project that I had to do for PA school. I spoke to a group of 9th graders in my home town about Intimate Partner Violence. They were a very good audience.

Did you know that about...
  • 1 in every 4 women will be a victim of Intimate Partner Violence at some point in their lives.
  • 1 in every 13 men will be a victim of Intimate Partner Violence at some point in their lives.
  • 1 in every 11 teens has been a victim of physical dating violence.
Basically the take home point of my presentation was that any relationship can become abusive and that it is important that we speak up and raise awareness about intimate partner violence and let others know that it is unacceptable.

(above picture from the domestic violence resource center)

2 comments:

rachel said...

You're amazing. I'm sure your presentation was awesome.

Hopefully we can see you guys while you're in town?! I would LOVE that.

Grace said...

Interesting topic. You are smart to have done it this early on. I did my presentation over Christmas break and I was one of the first 3 to get it done. The 3 of us presented our projects to the program at the following call-backs and could relax the rest of the year, while everyone else seemed to stress out about it at the end. Plus I think since we were the first, we were graded less harshly than the others.