from WBEZ--Chicago Public Radio
Teens Learn Sexual Violence Prevention Via Art Therapy
Produced by Natalie Y. Moore
This summer a group of teenage girls on Chicago’s West Side is learning about sexual violence prevention while they draw. The idea is to get the girls talking about and confronting sexual violence through yoga, dance and painting.
In a classroom at North Lawndale College Prep High School, 15 girls mix paint for their latest art project.
Each teen has a pair of white canvas gym shoes in front of her - literally a blank canvas. One of their instructors explains:
ambi: How can you use dress for communication. We’re using shoes. What are some of the things we talked about?
Hope, respect, the girls say. The program is called Girl/Friends and it’s designed to shore up hope and respect in these students and help them pass the message on to other girls.
There are many reasons girls can become victims of sexual assault, and it cuts across racial and class lines. Nationally, one in four girls is sexually abused before the age of 18.
But Chicago police statistics put North Lawndale eighth in the city for criminal sexual assaults in the past year. Their neighborhood faces a lot of factors that contribute: lack of parenting skills, domestic violence and the stresses of unemployment.
Listen HERE
Produced by Natalie Y. Moore
This summer a group of teenage girls on Chicago’s West Side is learning about sexual violence prevention while they draw. The idea is to get the girls talking about and confronting sexual violence through yoga, dance and painting.
In a classroom at North Lawndale College Prep High School, 15 girls mix paint for their latest art project.
Each teen has a pair of white canvas gym shoes in front of her - literally a blank canvas. One of their instructors explains:
ambi: How can you use dress for communication. We’re using shoes. What are some of the things we talked about?
Hope, respect, the girls say. The program is called Girl/Friends and it’s designed to shore up hope and respect in these students and help them pass the message on to other girls.
There are many reasons girls can become victims of sexual assault, and it cuts across racial and class lines. Nationally, one in four girls is sexually abused before the age of 18.
But Chicago police statistics put North Lawndale eighth in the city for criminal sexual assaults in the past year. Their neighborhood faces a lot of factors that contribute: lack of parenting skills, domestic violence and the stresses of unemployment.
Listen HERE
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