Lyndonville High School Students Discuss Sexual Assault Prevention
LCSD high school students recently met with Senior Investigator Thomas Gibbons with the NYS Police Department during their health class to discuss sexual assaults on college campuses.
This discussion is part of the NYS Police Campus Sexual Assault Victims Unit’s prevention education program. Their mission is to reduce the incidence and facilitate the reporting of sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking at colleges and universities.
Investigator Gibbons explained the problem of sexual assaults on campuses to the students. He provided prevention and bystander strategies and emphasized the importance of reporting sexual assault crimes to law enforcement. The investigator stressed that everyone has a role to play in keeping friends, peers and family safe.
“Educating the students about these topics will allow them to make responsible decisions now and later in life,” said Shane Phillips, Health teacher for LCSD. “Collectively the students agreed that learning more about healthy relationships and how to identify common signs of an unhealthy relationship was very helpful,” he concluded.
The second part of the presentation will take place near the end of the school year and will continue its focus on identifying positive and negative relationships.