Preventing Abuse and Violence through Education

From left to right: Melissa Sanchez, Kendel Bunce, Lisa Nelson, and Melissa Saucedo

The four of us have always been very involved in our communities and offering
a lending hand.

Melissa Sanchez was involved in Kid’s College Night for 3 yrs which is a program to encourage children to attend college. Melissa was also a volunteer tutor for
2 yrs at a local elementary school.

Kendel Bunce has also helped with fundraisers for Nueces County to raise money for neglected and abused children. Kendel has also helped with a Christmas toy drive for the Bokenkamp Children’s Center in Corpus Christi.

Lisa Nelson has been a part of BACA for the past 4 years helping children who have been abused.

Melissa Saucedo has also been involved in many health fairs, helping with community clean up projects and volunteering for 2 years at the University Hospital in San Antonio, Texas.

(link on homepage) About PAVE

About PAVE:

We are four students from the physician assistant program at University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. We have implemented a community medicine project with our local youth to spread awareness about domestic violence and provide resources regarding where to seek help. We were fortunate enough to have been awarded a community based project grant by the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA). This grant supplied all of our funding needed to implement our project.

As PA students and as citizens of San Antonio, Texas we have recognized the rates of domestic violence reported in the past few years to the San Antonio Police Department have increased dramatically. In our research we found that there is a window of opportunity in which you can make the greatest impact on education of domestic violence by targeting and educating adolescents. We also found that by targeting after-school programs in community centers gives access to a variety of adolescents with very different backgrounds.

For these reasons, we choose to work with the Guadalupe Community Center during the month of January 2006. We choose a variety of activities to help, not only make it more interesting, but to reinforce our topics. We divided the children into two groups according to ages. The first group consisted of ages 12-17 years old. The second group consisted of ages 5-11 years old.

(link on homepage) Curriculum

The main goal of PAVE is to bring awareness to the community regarding domestic violence through educating the youth. We also want to enable the youth with the tools and knowledge that will allow them to respond
appropriately in situation where they encounter domestic violence. Finally,
we want to empower the youth to go out in their own communities and schools
and spread awareness of domestic violence so that they too can become
advocates against domestic violence.

In order to measure how well we
accomplished our goal we will give a pre-quiz before the implementation of the
program and a post-quiz at then end of the program in order to see how much
knowledge the children gained through out the two weeks.

For a course of two weeks we implemented our program which followed the following course.

(link on curriculum page) Timeline

CM Medicine Timeline

January

1	OFF
2	Revamp ppt and mural, work on skits
3	10am Review ppt/skits, finish ribbon index card example, go to businesses
4	Meet w/ Elvia and Elizabeth at ctr, show them ppt and mural, get final run down of kitchen supplies and other supplies for activities, Introduce ourselves to the children, organize lesson plan for Colver to approve
5	Meet w/ Professor Colver, make any necessary changes, make final copies, make PAVE purple t-shirts for group, go to Dollar Tree for prizes and Kinkos for overhead transparencies
6	Make copies of schedules in am, place order for t-shirts, make any last minute preparations
7	No activities, unless necessary
8	No activities, unless necessary
9	Present ppt presentation to older kids and give blank sheet for mural contest and do color sheets with younger kids
10	Older kids have prior activities already organized with center, will work on index cards with the younger kids
11	Cont. presentation with older kids and teach them about programs offered by San Antonio, make game cards for PAVE bingo with the younger kids
12	T-shirts with both groups
13	Buy paint and paint brushes, prep wall if needed
14	No activities, unless necessary
15	No activities, unless necessary
16	MLK Day (center closed)
17	Older kids have prior activities already organized with center, play PAVE bingo with the younger kids
18	Practice skits with older kids, give prizes for Top 10 murals, make posters with the younger kids for Mural Day
19	Perform skits to younger kids with popcorn and prizes
20	Prep for Mural Day, buy food
21	10 am Mural Day, BACA come to visit
22	Develop pics, Work on notebook
23	Work on notebook/website
24	Notebook/website
25	Notebook/website
26	Notebook/website/final objectives/login
27	Last day of CM rotation
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Lesson Plan for Jan 4^th-Jan 21^st

Group 1- age group (12-17y)

Group 2- age group (5-11y)

Wednesday, Jan 4^th

Group 1 / 2- (Lisa, Mel M, Mel E, Kendel)

Introduce ourselves
Give mini-survey (tshirt sizes and ages)
Begin promoting Mural Day on Saturday, Jan. 21st

Monday, Jan 9^th

Group 1 / 2- (Lisa, Mel M, Mel E, Kendel)

Introduce ourselves
PAVE mission
Give schedule for next two weeks (need 60 copies)
Name tag activity (need yarn, 60 index cards, colors, markers

Group 1- (Ken/Lisa)

give pretest
DV- what is it? (need 30 copies of handout)
Give blank sheet for mural contest

Group 2- (Mel M/Mel E)

make color pages (need 30 copies of ribbon color page/colors/markers)

Tuesday, Jan 10^th

Group 1- prior activities with Elizabeth already scheduled

Group 2- (Ken/Lisa)

decorate index cards (need colors, glitter, glue, handouts to paste, index cards)

Wednesday, Jan 11th

Group 1- (Mel M/Mel E)

DV- what can you do? Where can you get help? (need 30 copies of handout)
DV- safety plan (need 30 copies of handout)
Give post quiz

Group 2- (Ken/Mel M/Mel E/Lisa)

work on BINGO cards (need 30 bingo game card copies and game pieces, colors/markers)

Thursday, Jan 12^th

Group 1 / 2- (Lisa/Mel E/Mel M/Ken)

Work on T-shirts (needs shirts, shirt markers)

Friday, Jan 13^th

No activities planned

Monday, Jan 16^th

MLK Day- Guadalupe Community Center closed

Tuesday, Jan 17^th

Group 1- prior activities with Elizabeth already scheduled

Group 2- (Mel E/Ken)

play PAVE bingo (need candy, game cards, beans)

Wednesdsay, Jan 18^th

Group 1- (Lisa/Mel M/Mel E/Ken)

work on skits (need handouts for each skit and any necessary props)

Group 2-

no activities planned with group 2

Thursday, Jan 19^th

Group 1 /2 - (Lisa/Mel E/Mel M/Ken)

Group 1 will perform skits for Group 2
Debrief on good vs. bad relationships
give prizes to top murals
remind them about Mural Day

Saturday, Jan 21^st

MURAL DAY/DV AWARENESS DAY!!

(link on homepage) Mural day “Let’s PAVE the way to a brighter future.”

Our finale day, January 21^st, we planned a family mural day to bring domestic violence awareness to not only the children of the Guadalupe Center but to the community. We asked the children to invite their family and friends to come and help us paint our mural, enjoy food, entertainment, meet BACA (Bikers Against Child Abuse) and have your picture taken on a motorcycle, face painting and lots of fun.

Our mural was a collage of submitted drawings from our children depicting their version of the PAVE project and was incorporated into a sketch draw by our own Kendel Bunce.

(link of winners)Contest winners

Mural Contest Winners

Category 1: Ages 5-7

Luis B. (Basketball)

Jaslin B. (Toys R Us gift card worth $10)

Category 2: Ages 8-12

Ashley S. (Best Buy gift card worth $10)

Joevina H. (Best Buy gift card worth $10)

Category 3: Ages 13-17

Jesus I. (Sam Goody gift card worth $20)

Honorable Mention

(Received McDonald’s Coupon for free extra value meal.)