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LiveRespect\\u2122: Digitally Distributed Curriculum that Decreases Dating Violence and Bullying in Schools and Sports
The LIVERESPECT\u2122 curriculum\u2014freely distributed via digital download\u2014gives coaches, educators, mentors and youth advocates tools to promote healthy manhood in middle and high school boys. Developed by the organization A Call to Men, the goal of this curriculum is to decrease languages and actions that degrade women, challenge harmful cultural norms, and decrease bullying and homophobia.
rayogram designed and built a website to distribute the \u2018LiveRespect\u2122\u2019 curriculum. Underwritten by a grant from the Verizon Foundation, the site collects demographic information from coaches, educators, and community organizers who then download digital copies of the \u201cProgram & Certification Process Guide\u201d and \u201cEducator Guide with Lesson Plans\u201d.
The onsite curriculum includes surveys that collect important feedback; one datapoint evaluated was the number of boys who understood the meaning of \u2018consent\u2019 rising from 19% initially to 75% post-curriculum.
A Call to Men\u2019s LiveRespect\u2122 curriculum has been embraced by a wide community of individual and corporate donors, NFL and NBA managers, coaches and players, and social activists including iconic journalist/activist Gloria Steinem.
\u201cA Call to Men states the facts\u2014[identifying] the roots of violence in gender polarization, and everything I\u2019ve been talking about\u2014but they do it in a way I cannot, that is role modeling intimately and in the present men-to-boys to show that it\u2019s okay to be a whole person. \u201d— Gloria Steinem