About GERI
Grow Engage Read Imagine (GERI) focuses on sexual violence prevention utilizing literature to help facilitate education and discussion around books that model healthy alternatives to violence. The age-appropriate books address themes of gender norms and stereotypes, consent, and empowerment.
GERI gives readers tools to handle conversations around sexual assault, domestic violence, consent, and other topics that deeply impact the connectedness of our community.
GERI Goals
- Promote prevention of violence
- Be inclusive of marginalized voices
- Challenge social norms that accept violence
- Empower girls and young women to be leaders in their community
- Teach young people the power of their voices
- Give caregivers and parents the tools and resources to feel empowered to have ongoing conversations with their child(ren), even when those conversations can be difficult.
Additional Resources:
- Amaze – Amaze is an organization that provides free age appropriate and medically accurate sex education information. Videos range in topics from where babies come from to engaging in safe sex. The platform offers parents fun videos and tips to help make what seems like a difficult topic become an effortless conversation.
- Sex Positive Families – Sex Positive Families is an informative online platform that contains vast knowledge on raising children to be sexually healthy and shame free around topics of sex and sexual development. They have parent blogs, videos, webinars, and books by both experts in their fields and parents.
- Tolerance – Teaching Tolerance offers teachers, educators and students materials on creating lesson lesson plans based on social justice themes. The website offers free shortened lesson plans for preschool to high school aged students as well as webinars varying on subject matter.
Parent Toolkit
The tool kit provides child appropriate examples and education around consent, tips for having difficult conversations with children and teens, and local resources for additional needs and concerns.
Child Reading Guide
The Reading Guide includes book summaries, an overview of themes, discussion questions for ongoing conversations with your child(ren), and activities you can use to further promote healthy relationships, boundaries and social norms
For Young Adults
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