NOVA SCOTIA- YOU INSULT YOUTH WORKING AGAINST BULLYCIDES AND 4 ANTI-BULLYING WITH SLEEZY POSTERS AGAINST ABUSE

NOVA SCOTIA- YOU INSULT YOUTH WORKING AGAINST BULLYCIDES AND 4 ANTI-BULLYING WITH SLEEZY POSTERS AGAINST ABUSE

DO ME- please change this-  come on?????? in huge letters?????? and the message in tiny letters???? TAKE ME????? in huge letters and message in tiny letters???? - some young guys loved the flashy posters- young girls felt humiliated and 'UNcomfortable' and NS Gov. chose to go with the young guys!!!!-
- how can old men and women of all political stripes keep F**king Up again and again and again... whilst VICTIMS WHO HAVE SUFFERED SO BADLY FROM ABUSE AT SOME POINT.... get it right away- the right and the wrong way 2 deal with 'personal' suffering and abuse and humiliation.... THOSE OF US STILL ALIVE... imho
-look at the sleezy posters- 2 protect grls and stop abuse- ONE BILLION RISING- breaking the chains... seriously??? this hurts.... all the Courtney's, Amanda's, Jamie's from Ottawa and Rehtaeh.... our kids matter




　
　
　
Sex assault ads miss the mark, teens say

August 28, 2013 - 8:54pm Selena Ross



16-year-old Allyssa Walsh, pictured in a Joseph Howe Drive bus shelter, feels that a new government-sponsored ad campaign meant to promote sexual assault awareness strikes the wrong chord. (CHRISTIAN LAFORCE / Staff)

　
　
　
When posters went up in bus shelters this month with a message about sexual assault, Allyssa Walsh was disappointed.
The 16-year-old wasn’t just worried that the ads might not work.
She also felt personally let down, since she had told Marilyn More, the lead government minister working on sexual assault, that the posters didn’t strike the right note.
"We went around the table and each gave our individual opinion," said the Dartmouth girl, who attended a June meeting in Halifax with More, antibullying co-ordinator Kathleen Richard, about 10 other young people and some adult advocates.


"The majority’s opinion was that they made us feel uncomfortable," she said of the ads. "And at the end of going around the circle, (More) said to us that the ads would not be published. There was no way that they would be published."


But the posters were rolled out on Aug. 15, raising eyebrows among those who work with local young people.
Social marketing, or advertising designed to change people’s attitudes and behaviour, is not easy, say experts in that field.
However, teenagers like Allyssa feel Nova Scotia has an opportunity to talk about sex right now, and their needs still aren’t being understood.
"It may be surprising, but most youth don’t realize that a drunk person cannot give consent," she said. "It’s a topic that we shy away from because it’s a touchy topic and some parents might get upset. But in the wake of what happened to Rehtaeh Parsons, it’s clear that we can’t shy around these topics."
According to Rehtaeh’s family, the girl alleged that she was raped during a night that she mostly couldn’t remember, when she was too drunk to be able to communicate her wishes.
The two colourful ads focus on respecting what’s said, not on considering if your partner is able to make those decisions in the first place.
At first glance, the posters appear to say Do Me and Take Me, but small print changes the message up close to Do Me a Favour and Leave, and Take Your Hands Off Me.
Both share a tagline that says, "Hear what she’s really saying. Sex without consent is a crime."
Allyssa said students didn’t like the casual, sexy look of the posters, or their message.
More said she stands behind the $60,000 ad campaign, which was devised with local company Stir Creative. After the June meeting, she delayed it for "further research" and nixed one of three ads, she said.
"I gave my full support to moving ahead with this revised version," More said.
"It’s the right campaign for (the) target audience."
Those at the meeting, which took place in a government office on Spring Garden Road, included members of the Nova Scotia Youth Project and a group affiliated with the HeartWood Centre for Community Youth Development.
The meeting was not intended as a focus group but simply to inform those present about the ads, Status of Women spokeswoman Chrissy Matheson said.
However, "the province did commission market research with the key target market (males age 16 to 25)," she wrote in an email.
The young men who participated approved of the ads, according to a summary of the research, which Matheson provided.
But they also said their main problem is not knowing how drunk is too drunk for consent.
"There appears to be a greater understanding about law regarding age, general consent and sharing videos, while the questions related to drugs and alcohol had more participants indicating that they were unsure or didn’t know the correct answer," said the write-up.
That makes sense to Irene Smith, director of the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre in Halifax, based on her work with that age group.
Both boys and girls "are confused about what is consent and, you know, what is drunken sex and what is sexual assault, for example," Smith said.
"And again, you’ve got to understand, that in my opinion what we have been seeing in the last few years is hypersexualization within that age range.
"You look at the fact that we’ve got young boys as young as in Grade 6 who are looking at pornography — and young girls in Grade 6 who are looking at pornography, too. So their idea of what is sexual assault and what’s healthy sexual activity is coming from some of those messages that they’re receiving."
Avalon staff, who speak to thousands each year about sexual assault, were not consulted in the making of the ads, Smith said.
If she were to create an ad, she said, she would aim it at those who target drunk people for sex.
"The message that needs to get out to them is that just because she’s vulnerable and she’s drunk, it does not equal consent."
Creating strong ad campaigns around social issues takes months of research and years of practice, said Jim Mintz, an Ottawa marketing veteran who specializes in the field.
"I don’t want to pretend that this is easy stuff. This is hard stuff," he said. "The biggie for me in social marketing is trying to find out, what are the barriers to change?"
Mintz often also advises governments not to bother tackling social problems through advertising unless they can commit to a three-year strategy.
In this case, the ads will stay up in Halifax and Sydney for four weeks at bus shelters, restaurants, bars and on campuses.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1150477-sex-assault-ads-miss-the-mark-teens-say
　
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Students unions target booze, sex assaults



August 28, 2013 - 8:00pm By Frances Willick Education Reporter

　

Student unions at some of Nova Scotia’s universities will work together this fall to combat alcohol abuse and sexual violence.

StudentsNS announced Wednesday that unions from six campuses will use about $46,000 to review their policies and launch awareness campaigns.

"We’re aware of how Nova Scotia is especially affected on both fronts — higher sexual assault rates and higher rates of over-consumption of alcohol — so we want to be leaders in dealing with that, in turning those trends around and ensuring that our students are safe when they go to school," said Jonathan Williams, the executive director of StudentsNS, an alliance of student unions.

Tantallon-based consultant Anne Martell will review the alcohol and sexual assault prevention policies and make recommendations on how to improve them.

About $10,000 will be spent on a campaign to raise awareness of sexual assault and to encourage the intervention of bystanders.

The province is supporting the initiatives with $31,291, the student unions are kicking in $13,465 and Cape Breton University is contributing $1,400.

The student unions at Acadia, Cape Breton, Mount Saint Vincent, St. Francis Xavier and Saint Mary’s universities and the agricultural campus of Dalhousie will participate in the policy reviews and the sexual assault awareness campaign, while the Dalhousie Student Union will only take part in the awareness campaign.

The alcohol policy review comes two years after a first-year student at Acadia University died of alcohol poisoning during frosh week.

Matthew Rios, the president of Acadia’s student union, said that was a wake-up call for student leaders.

"It was realizing that we are accountable and that we need to be held accountable and that we want to hold ourselves to a higher standard when it comes to addressing these issues," he said. "Oftentimes, we’re very reactive, and there’s need for us to be proactive."

In the wake of that tragedy, Acadia asked the province’s chief public health officer, Dr. Robert Strang, to review the school’s alcohol policies and make recommendations.

That school has made many changes since then, including banning alcohol in residences during Welcome Week and training residence staff and volunteers on how to intervene in cases of acute intoxication.

Rios said he hopes a similar review of other student unions’ policies will help prevent another alcohol-related death on campus.

"On a personal level, there’s nothing worse than losing a student," he said. "That was everyone’s nightmare."

At Dalhousie, the campus is still relatively quiet. But Sunday, students will begin moving into residence as orientation week gets underway.

Master’s student Jon Lemay worked as a residence assistant at Dalhousie and said while drinking is a "cultural aspect" of university, the issue of alcohol in residence isn’t as bad as some may believe.

"There are the few students who party every weekend, but I think in all my entire three years (as a residence assistant), I only saw one student who drank to the point where medical service was required," he said outside the Killam Memorial Library on Wednesday.

Lemay said he would encourage first-year students to be responsible with their spending and consumption of alcohol if they choose to drink.

Residences at Dalhousie have strict prohibitions on stockpiling alcohol, storing empty bottles in rooms and playing drinking games, and all orientation week events are dry.

Erin Wilson, another Dalhousie master’s student, said while older students may know their limits, first-year students may feel pressured to drink in order to fit in. She said rules governing drinking in residences may help curb problems there, but it’s hard to police drinking off-campus.

"There’s so many house parties," she said. "If they want to drink, they’re going to go find a place to do it where there’s no rules being enforced."

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1150473-students-unions-target-booze-sex-assaults


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