Fall 2007

Online Project One: Helping Victims of Crime

Handout One--Action Steps

In this project, you are going to create a brochure that will help teen victims of crime. You will need to research the topic so that the advice you give will be based on facts, not opinion. When you have completed your research, you can write, edit, design, and print your brochure. You will need to work with your teacher and school staff to decide how your product will be distributed.

Action Steps:

1. Read the Handout Two--Fact Sheet and discuss the facts with the other participants.
   
2. Research the problem of teen victimization. Use the library, the Internet and--if possible--contact outside resource people such as school psychologists, counselors, and experts at local law-enforcement and social-service agencies for information on teen victims of crime. Have one of these outside resource people to sign the Check Point below after you have finished talking with him/her.
   
3. Choose what you wish to put in your brochure from the information you have gathered and organize it to make it interesting, helpful, and attractive.
   
4. Gather any supplies you need, and create your product. If possible use the computer to write, edit, and graphically design your brochure.
   
5. Present your project to your teacher and ask him/her to review your work and make suggestions to improve your final product.
   
6. Complete the Stop and Think section. Keep track of the hours you spend on the project. They can be counted toward community service requirements.
   
7. Hand in your completed project and this handout to your teacher.
   

Stop and Think

• How did this project relate to preventing or addressing assault and battery?

• What new information about teen victims of crime did you learn through doing this project?

• What two resources did you include in your product that you think will be most helpful?

• What did you learn about yourself through this experience?

Outside resource person's signature ____________________________ Hours Completed __________

Teacher's signature _______________________ Date _____________________