In-Person Event - Healthy Relationships: What Love Means to Me

The schedule for this 2-session class is as follows:

• Thursday, April 13th: 5:30pm to 7pm
• Thursday, April 20th: 5:30pm to 7pm

The Kerengende Foundation is excited to present “Healthy Relationships: What Love Means to Me” classes for teens. We are excited to partner with Crisis Aid St. Louis again to bring these classes to female-identified youth in St. Clair County.

Lauren Peffley will be leading an interactive, 2-session group on Healthy Relationships for Teen Girls. For our Spring session, we will explore "What Love Means to Me". What does love feel like? What are loving actions and loving words? Is love dependency, manipulation or jealousy? We will delve into all of these questions and more to identify what love is in a healthy relationship.

Each session will be an hour and a half long and will incorporate multiple learning styles, discussions, activities and snacks.

Crisis Aid Info: If any of the group participants or their families have any advocacy needs or concerns regarding online activity, child sexual abuse and/or any form of exploitation, Crisis Aid has resources and support services that can be offered free of charge to youth and non-offending family members. For more information about our Children's Anti-exploitation Partnership (CAP) Program and how to access our services, resources, and referrals, please visit: https://ussafe.org/capp/.

Speaker

Lauren received her Master of Social Work degree and Certificate for Violence and Injury Prevention from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. She individualized her MSW concentration to focus on Advocacy and Empowerment for Survivors of Sexual Exploitation. She has worked alongside survivors of both labor and sex trafficking in India, Minnesota, Illinois, and here in St. Louis. She has served in several advocacy capacities, and has done extensive research, training, and teaching on this topic. She currently serves as an Advocate for Crisis Aid, working with survivors of internet crimes against children and their non-offending family members to provide crisis intervention, emotional support, education, safety planning, and resources in the hopes of preventing further victimization online and potential human trafficking. Her advocacy also includes working with adolescent and adult survivors of sex trafficking and facilitating psychoeducational groups such as Finding Healing after Trauma, Healthy Relationships, and Goal Setting. She's been passionate about pursuing anti-trafficking work and serving survivors for the last 17 years and hopes to continue doing so for the rest of her life.

About Crisis Aid

CAP is a revolutionary new collaborative initiative that focuses on reaching children at risk for sex trafficking or other forms of child sexual abuse. CAP provides advocacy, resources, and support to children and families identified in internet/electronics-related crimes against children and human trafficking investigations. CAP. provides tools such as assistance accessing Internet Safety Education (ISE) programs to help parents of children engaged in high-risk sexual activities online, activities that leave them vulnerable to trafficking or other forms of sexual abuse.