Parents and caregivers will now have the tools (in English and español) to talk to their children about consent, boundaries, and healthy relationships
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY — Lumina Alliance is launching ReDefine Parenting: An educational program focused on improving the social, emotional and physical well-being of children and pre-teen boys.
Parents are tasked with an impossible job: Raise and educate children, while navigating life and family, with no guidance or resources, in the midst of a changing and turbulent world. ReDefine Parenting aims to support parents and caregivers by providing them the tools to tackle some of the most difficult and nuanced issues facing youth today.
ReDefine Parenting is the second iteration of ReDefineSLO, which launched in the summer of 2021, and is an innovative approach to preventing sexual assault and intimate partner violence in San Luis Obispo County. The campaign aims to empower parents and caregivers with the tools to engage pre-teens in tough conversations about their social and emotional health, in order to end violence before it starts.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 4 women and nearly 1 in 10 men will experience sexual assault, physical violence or stalking in their lifetimes and for most, that violence begins during their teenage years. Promoting healthy, respectful and non-violent relationships makes a huge difference in protecting children from experiencing or perpetrating violence when they get older.
Knowing that learning happens beyond the classroom, Lumina Alliance created ReDefine Parenting to make it easier for adults to support the growth of their children by modeling healthy relationships and engaging them in important and complex conversations.
The campaign features an interactive website, redefineslo.org, where parents, educators and influential adults can explore tools to engage children in conversations around:
? Consent and bodily autonomy
? Gender
? Sex and Sexual Orientation
? Masculinity
? Emotional Trauma
? Race and ethnicity
? Disability
All materials are free and available in English and Spanish.
Stay tuned to learn more about our partnerships with local schools and our Parent Champions program. For more information about ReDefineSLO or Lumina Alliance Prevention programs, contact education@luminaalliance.org
Together, we can help end relationship violence in San Luis Obispo County through communication, education and demonstration in everyday life.
ABOUT LUMINA ALLIANCE — Lumina Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization created by the merging of RISE and Stand Strong in July 2021. Their mission is to empower those impacted by sexual and intimate partner violence through innovative advocacy, healing, and prevention programs. Services include 24/7 crisis and information line, case management, restraining order assistance, legal assistance, accompaniment and advocacy, emergency shelters, transitional housing, individual and group therapy, and robust prevention education. For more information, please visit www.LuminaAlliance.org.
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