Prevention Menu

Helpmate offers both single- and multi-session programming about healthy relationships and dating abuse prevention to youth ages 12-18 in public and private schools, community-based youth groups, faith communities, and summer camps. 

Helpmate also offers presentations about healthy relationships and intimate partner violence prevention to adults, including college students, faith communities, civic groups, those enrolled in substance use recovery programs, etc.

Helpmate also provides training for allied professionals, including law enforcement, healthcare providers, school personnel, social workers, HR/management staff in local businesses, etc.

Age Range: youth grades 6-college, adults

Price: no cost

Contact: Christy Price, Director of Outreach & Volunteer Programming – cprice@helpmateonline.org

The Mountain Child Advocacy Center offers an interactive, trauma-informed prevention education program based in elementary school classrooms. The prevention educator helps students identify trusted adults in their life, practice consent and boundaries at all ages, listen and trust the signs in their bodies, and recognize that no one should ever touch your private body parts except to keep you healthy.

The Mountain Child Advocacy Center works to educate and support adults and children in our community through engaging parents and caregivers in learning skills to support healthy and safe connections with children. The Mountain Child Advocacy Center offers multiple programs to support these efforts.

Age Range: Kindergarten – 5th grade, caregivers, parents, adults

Price: no cost

Contact: Melissa Garrett, Prevention Educator – mgarrett@mtncac.org; Colleen Burnet, Community Educator – educator@mtncac.org 

Our VOICE offers a variety of innovative educational programs pursuing our mission of creating a community free from sexual violence and human trafficking. Each program is evidence-informed, based upon current best practices for maximum impact, and designed to reach a broad range of populations throughout Buncombe County.

Age Range: youth grades 6-college, adults

Price: varies, no cost for public schools

Contact: Our VOICE, 828-255-7576

The Third Talk prevents violence by reducing exposure to online pornography for our county’s young people. We accomplish that by educating the parents in order to have a ‘pornography-prevention’ conversation with their young people. The Parent’s Guide is a comprehensive strategy to initiate the pornography prevention conversation with young people. Tried and tested, this method takes all the guesswork out of initiating an awkward conversation, so that parents and their young people can take the healthy step toward communication and avoiding this material.

Age Range: parents and their young people ages 11-17

Price: unknown

Contact: John Van Arnam – info@thethirdtalk.org

Teen Connections offers an evidence-based curriculum for teens, young adults, and parents. Our inclusive programs center on topics such as healthy relationships, decision making, anatomy, prevention, communication skills, and consent.

After the completion of one of our programs, teens have the opportunity to earn up to $100!

If you are interested in a program series or one-shot session on a specific topic, please contact Planned Parenthood’s Community Health Educator, Devin Hall.

Age Range: teens, young adults, and parents

Price: no cost

Contact: Devin Hall, devin.hall@ppsat.org

Consent and Safer Sex Education generally facilitated using a handbook created by a team of transgender teens.

Age Range: 11 – 20 years old

Price: no cost

Contact: Spike Thompson, Youth Programs Manager – spike@youthoutright.org