12/1

Today we went over our final projects and our ideas for them.

Shalynn started, her and Jamie are going to make an infographic for parents that highlights behavior in kids that contribute to rape culture. Some examples are "no means no" "you don't have to hug your uncle if you don't want to". Going to use research from child behavior and things like that. Use some ideas that are "do this" and "don't do that". Mostly just resources for parents to help talk to their kids so from a young age they can get an idea of how to bring these ideas up. Choosing different responses, "give an acknowledgment instead of a hug" - allows child to choose the kind of contact they want to have with people.

Jace and Mikah are going to create a pamphlet with information about what rape is, the "no means no" stuff. They are also going to make a website potentially with a video. After the pamphlet is read they will be able to go to the website in order to get more information. The audience it will target is things like "GreenDot" at WSU. Mostly targeting college students. Back page will have resources for people going through it and more websites about learning more about rape.

**Important to make sure you know who your audience is and gear it specifically towards that audience.

David is doing something to overcome sexual violence, overuse of drugs and violence, a new position/program at the house (Frat), thinking of a way to help the Greek system get past everything that is going on with alcohol related offenses and alleged rapes that were occurring through frats. His idea is to propose a measure that would address the concerns his fraternity would take in order to combat the issues. By setting an example, they hope other houses will follow this example. A program for "self-education". Should add what to do if you see something suspicious happening.

Holly, Haley, and I are doing something with integrating a resource that would go through the public school system. Currently it's at the 5th grade, 8th grade, and 11th grade sex education course with running themes "no means no", "inappropriate touching", and other age appropriate things. We plan on mostly focusing on the high school though because we could better prepare them for college because the college statistics are the worst of all. Maybe using Missoula, videos, statistics, cases, etc. to create a curriculum that is some sort of "reality check" in order to better teach students that it is real and what to do. Unfortunately parents have the opportunity to pull children out of these classes, the big question is how to frame it to get in to a curriculum with how much of a touchy subject this is politically. More than just sex ed - also including the violence/public health issues of it as well.

Anna and Michael are thinking about doing a one day seminar for high school or middle school students, something media based so they can see what message they are trying to say. They want to convince audience to feel something about it - take a situation "what if this was your mother, sister, girlfriend - how would you feel". Have them answer in questions to see what they think versus the actual statistic. Use live polling or hashtag to keep audience a little more involved. Texting a specific number to have questions answered while keeping anonymity. What happens after that day? Is it a one and done day thing? Or is there a way to follow up or continue the dialogue that wouldn't cut it off at the end of the day?

****It is important to really bring in rhetoric and use multiple perspectives. Don't just have conclusions but also consequences and implications.