Student actors Olivia Sasso and Ewen Van Wagner review with Charlene Senn a script for an educational film on sexual assault resistance.
One in seven women experiences sexual assault at least once during their postsecondary studies in Canada. This is in stark contrast to the fact that by the early 2000s, most sexual assault prevention programs were found to be ineffective.
This is why psychology professor Charlene Senn developed the sexual assault prevention program called Enhanced Assess, Acknowledge, Act program (EAAA)—known as Flip the script with EAAA®.
This program shifts the focus to empowering women in their sexuality.
"We talk a lot about sexual experiences as a script in which a man desires and initiates the experience while the woman passively responds, but where is our concern about what women desire?"
The science-based program has been implemented in more than 30 colleges and universities in Canada and six other countries. It has been adapted for teenage girls, Francophone university students, and trans students.
Flip the script with EAAA® is transforming how sexual violence is prevented thanks to two decades of support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Read the full article on the CIHR website.