The RAP (Raising Awareness and Prevention) Project
The RAP (Raising Awareness and Prevention) Project deliver 45-50 minute year group assemblies to Guilsborough Academy students. Awareness is Power.
On Tuesday 9th January, Guilsborough Academy were delighted to welcome Allison Havey, Co-Founder of The RAP Project, who delivered year group assemblies to Years 7-11. The RAP Project teaches students in an age-appropriate manner, the laws defining sexual offences, consent and to understand how social media and online pornography may influence attitudes, expectations, behaviours and body image.
Their core belief, since they began in 2012, is that young people should be taught the legal definitions of sexual offences; be able to identify peer on peer sexual harassment and peer on peer sexual assault; consent; and exercise an understanding of how online porn & social media are influencing attitudes, expectations, behaviours & body image.
The Instagram campaign, 'Everyone’s Invited', brought these issues to the fore, and The RAP believes students need this information now more than ever. Their presentations cover personal safety advice across subjects such as; dating, travelling, partying etc. They address sexting, revenge porn, gender stereotypes and toxic masculinity.
ABOUT ALLISON HAVEY, CO-FOUNDER OF THE RAP PROJECT...
Allison is a London-based author and Co-Founder of The RAP Project, an organisation delivering presentations on Relationship and Sex Education in over 260 schools through the UK and abroad, since 2012. She is also the CEO of The RAP Foundation, a charity she co-founded, delivering RAPS to state schools free of charge. She grew up in New York City and attended Sarah Lawrence College where she studied Russian, French and European History. Prior to RAP, she worked in Paris, Moscow and travelled extensively as television and print journalist for 25 years for NBC, Associated Press and ABC News. Since becoming an educator. Allison is a speaker at conferences, festivals, & the co-author of ‘Sex, Likes and Social Media: Talking to Teens in the Digital Age’ published by Random House/Ebury. Allison lives in North London with her husband and has a son and a daughter.
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