Sexual Assault Support Services
of Midcoast Maine

Prevention & Education 

COMMUNITY  

Advocate Training - SASSMM trains community members to staff our hotline and provide advocacy services. Volunteers go through a 40+-hour training, which is provided twice a year and takes place in Brunswick. SASSMM is always looking for interested individuals over the age of 18 who care about the issue of sexual violence and want to devote time and energy toward supporting survivors.  

Safe Space training at Bowdoin College - Bowdoin College students participating in SAFE SPACE, an on-campus sexual assault prevention and awareness group, go through a 27-hour training facilitated by SASSMM. Residential Life staff at Bowdoin College also take part in the training.  

Learning Center - SASSMM has worked with the Learning Center to conduct classes on personal safety, risk reduction, and assertiveness training. The Learning Center, a project of the Independence Association, is a volunteer-based program that provides opportunities for learning, growth, and self-fulfillment to individuals with disabilities through classes, activities, mentoring, and community integration.  

Project Internet: Exploration and Safety – SASSMM offers this specialized workshop in partnership with the Verizon Foundation to help parents and other community members learn more about Internet Safety and how to use popular online websites and services. Information and resources are given for all types of internet users and include information for protecting children and adults while navigating the worldwide web. For more information, contact communityed@sassmm.org.

• Internet Safety Online resources for Adults, Parents and Children
• Internet Safety Tip Sheet

IN-SCHOOL 

School Policy and Staff Development - SASSMM can offer resources in school policy development around sexual harassment and sexual violence and help to train school staff to recognize and handle these issues. 

Curriculum Development - SASSMM can assist schools in developing prevention curriculums that reflect the Maine Department of Education's newly-established "Learning Results". 

Peer Education Program- SASSMM delivers a team of trained, mixed-gender, young adult "Peer Educators" to schools to discuss sexual violence issues with students, using interactive theatre, role-playing, and other exercises. The Peer Educators have twice presented at the State Peer Helper Conference and have visited middle and high schools from Brunswick to Waldoboro.  All of SASSMM's in-school programs can be designed based on your needs, audience, and time frame.

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