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Propose strategies for avoiding and/or responding to potentially unsafe, abusive, or exploitive situations
Elaboration
- How can you avoid an unsafe or potentially exploitive situation on the Internet, at school, and in the community?
- developing strategies for establishing boundaries in unsafe, abusive, or exploitative situations:
- saying how you feel
- asking for what you need
- disagreeing respectfully
- saying no without guilt
- speaking up for yourself and others when safe to do so
- removing yourself from an unsafe or uncomfortable situations
- using a strong voice to set boundaries by:
- saying “no,” “stop,” “I don’t like this”
- calling out for help and getting away if possible
- telling a trusted adult about an unsettling or dangerous situation until you get help
- not giving out personal information (e.g., to strangers, on the Internet)
- recognizing behaviours used by abusers or groomers (e.g., giving gifts, isolating a victim from their family, using guilt or blackmail to control)
- cultivating an awareness of power imbalances and how they can impact issues of consent and boundaries
- developing an awareness of sexual harassment and intimate partner violence, including physical, sexual, and emotional abuse
- acknowledging that survivors of abuse are not to blame and deserve respect and that all people have the right to have their boundaries respected
- recognizing that survivors experience the results of abuse differently and it can show up differently from person to person
- raising awareness on exploitative situations pertaining to consent and gender-based violence (e.g., human trafficking, coercion, deceit)
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Propose strategies for avoiding and/or responding to potentially unsafe, abusive, or exploitive situations