Structure of the Toolkit

STRUCTURE OF TOOLKIT

The BTS Facilitators’ Toolkit is designed to provide guidance to social workers, facilitators and community workers as they work with clients and communities on issues around Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), particularly when dealing with Spanish-speaking migrant populations. The target populations for the workshops are in-school and out-of-school youth between the ages of 10 and 16 in school and community settings. The aim of the Toolkit is to enhance community and state efforts in preventing and responding to CSA among migrant populations in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. The Modules provide opportunities for experiential learning that will assist in exploring and examining social and cultural issues that lay the foundation for CSA. Additionally, the learning content will enhance the skills of responders to fnd and implement solutions to reduce the occurrence of CSA, as well as to increase the reporting of CSA within migrant populations.

Learning Objectives

The overall goal of the Facilitator’s Manual is to enhance community and state efforts in preventing and responding to CSA among migrant populations in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. Upon completion of the sessions, participants will: • recognise the social and cultural beliefs that lay the foundation for CSA; • understand migrant vulnerability to CSA; • learn the different types of GBV; • understand the sexual and reproductive health implications for survivors of GBV and CSA; • build capacity to prevent and respond to CSA; and • enhance skills to develop healthy gender relations.

Modules

There are six interdependent modules. Each one builds on the learning from the previous session. They include: • Module 1 | Migration: Dreams and new possibilities • Module 2 | Understanding Gender: Defnitions, Norms, Expectations, Equality • Module 3 | Gender and Sexuality – Behaviours, Identity and Orientation • Module 4 | Defning Gender-Based Violence and Child Sexual Abuse • Module 5 | Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health • Module 6 | Building a Community Response to Child Sexual Abuse