Sanctuary for Change
Helping You Change Behaviors and Touch Lives
A curriculum for women with histories of substance abuse and trauma and at high risk for HIV and sexually transmitted infections.
Sanctuary for Change is in innovative and engaging curriculum designed to help at-risk women make informed choices about their sexual health, this comprehensive and structured curriculum aims:
- to educate women with histories of trauma and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, and/or intimate-partner violence to identify barriers and safeguards.
- to promote healthy sexual choices for women, so that they can experience safe and mutually respectful relationships; and
- to enable women to develop an individualized program of sexual health recovery.
The Sanctuary program provides:
- a user-friendly and step-by-step Facilitator Guide and an accompanying Participant Workbook;
- the flexibility of an entire 32-hour program or an individual 2-hour program on a selected topic or combination of topics.
- creative small-group exercises, hands-on activities and self-reflective tools.
This curriculum can be used at:
- outpatient and residential substance abuse treatment centers;
- women’s domestic violence shelters;
- HIV outreach centers;
- mental health centers;
- city health department programs
- women’s correctional facilities;
- college and university women’s programs; and
- community family planning centers.
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The Sanctuary program was piloted several times at Amethyst, a substance abuse and long-term treatment center in Columbus, Ohio. All of the women who completed the pilots reported being highly committed to practicing safe sex. 100% of the women who participated in the Sanctuary pilot programs reported being highly committed to safe sex
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Facilitator Guide
Participant Workbook