Protecting Our Youth Against Campus Sexual Assault: 3 Key Strategies
Today's blog is for mature audiences: ages 18 and over. I wrote this blog ten years ago. Sadly, with the news of the Cornell 7, environments of abuse, trauma, and betrayal are still with us. Parents, guardians, and any youth who might come across this blog, PLEASE take a few moments to read... Today's conversation is not an easy one to have, but it is critical. What I am about to share may seem exaggerated and even fabricated. Tragically, it is not. In the words of Susan Marine (Former Associate Dean of Student Life at Harvard University), "Sexual violence has always been part of the college experience" . We know this to be an accurate statement from studies conducted on "campus violence at our universities and colleges" which date as far back as 1987 (CNN Films, The Hunting Ground ). Before I offer you 3 Key Strategies for Protecting Our Youth Against Campus Sexual Assault, it is important to understand that the recent case at Stanford University (i...