Anticipated Outcome
The expected impact of our project in the short term is to educate students as well as faculty and staff at our school about sexual violence. This is important because we want to ensure that everyone at Maywood Academy High School understands the true meaning of sexual violence and can help combat it. Since our school is small we hope that knowledge will spread quickly and everyone will be aware of our goal to create a safe school climate. Most importantly, students will understand that harassment is never okay and that they do not have permission to violate another student’s body or personhood. Knowing that sexual harassment is an act of violence is the first step to ending these acts.
The expected impact of our project in the long term is to educate the school, not only the young women at our campus, but the young men too, on how to help stop sexual violence. We want everyone to know how an issue as serious as this one affects everyone. We want the school to know the signs of sexual violence so they can help those who may be exposed to it. We want to create a change in our school in hopes that these students will spread the word into the community. And everyone is treated equally with respect, and there is no hate or discrimination toward all genders. Further, through our database we hope that students feel empowered to report instances of sexual harassment both in school and the surrounding community and that it is clear that they will be supported and not have to suffer in silence. We would like to present this database to our school board in hopes that it will be used across different campuses because current systems of reporting are not effective.
The expected impact of our project in the long term is to educate the school, not only the young women at our campus, but the young men too, on how to help stop sexual violence. We want everyone to know how an issue as serious as this one affects everyone. We want the school to know the signs of sexual violence so they can help those who may be exposed to it. We want to create a change in our school in hopes that these students will spread the word into the community. And everyone is treated equally with respect, and there is no hate or discrimination toward all genders. Further, through our database we hope that students feel empowered to report instances of sexual harassment both in school and the surrounding community and that it is clear that they will be supported and not have to suffer in silence. We would like to present this database to our school board in hopes that it will be used across different campuses because current systems of reporting are not effective.