As educators for our shelter residents and their children and our community, we play a crucial role in shaping student learning and behaviors. 

An overwhelming statistic from Love is Respect explains that one in three adolescents is a victim of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse from a dating partner. By letting our trained, state-qualified advocates enter classrooms, we can engage in the opportunity to have meaningful conversations around violence prevention. 

Our lessons are created with materials that can have a tremendous impact on how students understand healthy relationships and learn to recognize what is unhealthy and abusive behavior. 

It is our hope that by visiting classrooms and day care classrooms and distributing our lessons and additional materials to students that we are helping to create a new culture, one with zero-tolerance for violence, and can ensure future generations are better equipped to break the cycle. 

If you have any questions or would like to speak with the Education and Outreach team, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We look forward to helping you and your students create a community free from violence, where all are safe and can live productive and healthy lives. 

​

Our Outreach Advocate, Zoe Merritt, would be happy to discuss different lesson plans with you. Her email is zoemerritt.rvs@gmail.com.