Responding to Sexual Abuse of Youth in Custody: Addressing the Needs of Boys, Girls, and Gender Nonconforming Youth

Responding to Sexual Abuse of Youth in Custody: Addressing the Needs of Boys, Girls, and Gender Nonconforming Youth is a training that covers the national PREA Standards and implications for preventing and addressing sexual abuse of boys, girls, and gender nonconforming youth.

Goals:

  • Review the applicable PREA standards for responding to sexual abuse in custody and their gender impact.
  • Review the dynamics of custodial sexual abuse for boys, girls, and gender nonconforming youth.
  • Identify the components of adolescent development and sexuality and understand their impact on sexual abuse of youth.
  • Discuss immediate and long-term medical and mental health care needs of youthful victims of sexual abuse.
  • Identify legal, investigative, and other implications and strategies for  responding to custodial sexual abuse.

Intended audience: The audience for this particular training is high-level correctional administrators who hold positions of leadership and have the ability to initiate change within the agency. Likely trainees include: commissioners, deputy commissioners, division directors, PREA coordinators, PREA compliance managers, trainers, jail administrators, medical and mental health division directors and/or victim services administrators, and/or community partners (e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender [LGBT] advocates, community and victim services providers). 

Expected length of training: This curriculum is designed to be a 24-hour training. However, we recognize that agencies may not have three uninterrupted days to conduct the training. This curriculum is designed to used in whole, in part, and/or in condensed version. Agencies should feel free to modify per their specific timing and training needs.


Training Materials:


Module 1:

Training Objectives (30 Minutes)

 

Module 2:

The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (60 minutes)

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Module 3:

Vectors of Sexual Abuse in Custody—Gender, Sexuality, and 
Victimization
 (45 minutes)

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Module 4

Adolescent Development (75 minutes)

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Module 5:

Adolescent Sexuality (60 minutes)

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Module 6:

The Impact of Culture—Agency and Youth (60 minutes)

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Module 7:

Gender and Victimization (45 minutes)

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Module 8:

State Criminal Laws (60 minutes)

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Module 9:

Policy (75 minutes)

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Module 10:

Medical and Mental Health of Victims in Custody (75 minutes)

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Module 11:

Operational Practices (60 minutes)

 

Module 12:

Gender Implications for Investigations (120 minutes)

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Module 13:

Human Resources and the Impact of Gender (90 minutes)

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Module 14:

Legal Liability and Gender (90 minutes)

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Authors
The Project on Addressing Prison Rape, American University Washington College of Law
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