Youth Awareness

It is important to create awareness with our organizational youth about their rights against abuse and how to identify different forms of abuse. We must empower our youth with the tools to:

• Know – what abuse is.
• Identify – forms of abuse.
• Refuse – to accept abuse in any form or towards anyone.
• Tell – a trusted organization member or leader of any reasonable suspicion, witnessed abuse, or experienced abuse.

Use the acronym K.I.R.T to create awareness with our organizational youth to stop abuse.

Teaching children to trust their instincts is important! If a situation or person suddenly makes them feel uneasy, they should run, struggle, yell, or do whatever they need to do to stay safe and to get help. And they should immediately tell a trusted adult.