I am a senior Honors in Nursing student at UAB (Honors in Nursing Website), and part of the Honors curriculum is to implement a service learning project and partner with a community agency. For my project I have partnered with the Crisis Center of Birmingham to promote awareness of dating abuse in the local college population. To implement the project I have used an existing curriculum, Safe Dates, as a template to create a PowerPoint presentation suitable for an audience of college students . The Safe Dates program is used to educate middle school and high school students on the topic of dating abuse, methods of prevention, and skills to aid others in abusive situations. I am working on adapting existing hand-outs to go along with the presentation, and plan to incorporate hand-outs to make it a more audience involved presentation. I am also working on a before and after the presentation survey to evaluate the effectiveness of the presentation and the participant’s attitudes towards dating abuse. I hope to present this information in the Fall to student organizations at UAB, such as sororities, fraternities, and resident assistants.
I think this is a very worth while effort and I applaud you taking on this charge to bringing more awareness to this topic. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteI love your blog! I think you picked a fabulous topic for your service learning project! Great job!
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