MILWAUKEE — Three local teens are empowering themselves through a workshop centered around creating clear boundaries.
Milwaukee Public Schools hosted more than one hundred student girls from area middle and high schools. They filled a U-W-M auditorium all donning t-shirts with a Girls of Color logo designed by a member of administrators who head up Girls of Color, a student-centered MPS organization.
The young women broke out into workshops addressing a range of complexities addressing sexual assault.
The concept of consent was front and center: consent is clear, coherent, willing, and ongoing.
"The statistics show that one in four girls will be sexually assaulted by age 18. If we're not having a conversation with them now they go that amount of time without understanding what's happening you know and how do I get support," said Eboney Lewis, Director of Gender and Identity Inclusion, Milwaukee Public Schools.
For resources and more information, the National Sexual Assault Hotline is 1(800) 656-4673 or National Human Trafficking Resource Center 1(888) 373-7888.
For Aurora's Sexual Assault Treatment Center, call 414-219-5555.
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