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Online Project One: Helping Teen Victims of Crime

This online project is designed to help students understand what it means to be a victim of crime. This project allows students to identify, explore (research), and create a brochure or handout that raises awareness of crime victimization and offers helpful resources to teen victims of crime.

Teacher Instructions

Hours Required: 2-6

Description: Participants will research issues related to victims of crime and prepare a brochure designed to (1) raise youth awareness about the issue and (2) provide a list of resources that may be helpful to teen crime victims. The brochure could be distributed school wide, used by student mentors and mediators, teachers, school psychologists and guidance counselors, or school resource officers to give to school crime victims.

Objectives: This research-based project is designed to help participants:

• Develop a deeper understanding of the impact of assault on victims of crime.
• Learn about how to avoid potentially dangerous situations.
• Develop research, critical-thinking, writing, and organizational skills.

To help develop research and communication skills, have participants talk with outside resource people such as counselors, psychologists, or judicial and law-enforcement professionals regarding crime victimization.

Encourage participants to apply decision-making skills and creative thinking to design their brochure and to gather any materials needed to create the product. In this way, the participant is more likely to take ownership of the project to ensure its success.

Helping Participant Prepare: 1) Have the participant use the assault fact sheet to guide his/her research. 2) Provide ideas for participant to gain Internet access if it is not readily available and provide a list of outside resource people and agencies the participant might contact to get information. 3) Ensure that an adult will be available to check the work for accuracy and high-quality presentation (spelling, layout, readability, dramatic or musical performance standards.

Materials participant will need: Computer, printer, paper, rehearsal space and time.

Handout One--Action Steps

Handout Two--Fact Sheet

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