Education & Awareness

Education and awareness are key elements in reducing the incidences of rape and sexual assault in Tuscarawas and Carroll Counties and across the nation. COMPASS has a group of dedicated speakers who can provide programs and/or presentations for your organization, club, business, or school. Our presentations can be tailored to fit your adult or student group's needs. Subject matter can cover any of the following:

  • COMPASS: Who we are, why we are needed and what we do.

  • Sexual Harrassment: Why it is such a problem in today's schools and businesses and what we can do to stop it.

    Personal Safety Issues: Is it just common sense, or am I worried for no good reason?

  • Rape, Sexual Assault, and Related Areas: No one wants to talk about it, but it affects all of us--men, women and children.

COMPASS also has an organized curriculum for both Junior/Middle and Senior High School students-- one class period, one week, all classes in one day, large group assemblies, or a creative combination can be scheduled to meet your students' needs.
Depending upon the preparation time available and the needs of the audience, COMPASS can offer handouts, visual aids, video and/or audio mediums.

Definitions to Remember
  • Date Rape: Having a date force you to have intercourse with him or her. However, any kind of forced sexual conduct is a violation of your rights.
  • Consent: Freely choosing to do something. Consent means you have said, "Yes," but you feel just as free to say, "No."
  • Force: Anything that prevents you from choosing freely to do something. Force can be emotional or physical.
  • Coerce: To use force, threats, or intimidation to make a person act a certain way or do a certain thing that they do not want to do.
  • Sexual Assault/Violence: Sexual act that is meant to hurt or harm another person physically, emotionally, or mentally; rape is an act of sexual assault/violence.

Just the Facts!

  • 86% of rapes are committed by someone the survivor knows.
  • 38% of date rape survivors are females between the ages of 14 to 17.
  • 57% of rapes occur in the context of a date.
  • 30% of females are raped by a friend; 11% of females are raped by a boyfriend.
  • 42.5% of assaults happen in the victim's own home.
  • 75% of males and 55% of females consume alcohol or other drugs before the assault.
  • 78% of teens do not tell their parents that they have been raped.
  • 71% of rape survivors tell a friend.
  • 3% of rapes result in pregnancy.

The COMPASS Education and Community Awareness Department has several other informational pieces on Rape & Sexual Assault and related issues including a pamphlet on the Prevention of Rape & Sexual Assault and a pamphlet on Sexual Harassment. If you are interested in any of this information, please e-mail us or call us at (330) 339-2504 in New Philadelphia or (330) 627-6675 in Carrollton.

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COMPASS, Inc.  ·   P.O. Box 481  ·   New Philadelphia, OH 44663
Office: (330) 339-2504  ·   24-Hour Crisis Hotline: (330) 339-1427

Carroll County:
COMPASS, Inc.  ·   P.O. Box 363  ·   Carrollton, OH 44615
Office: (330) 627-6675  ·   24-Hour Crisis Hotline: (330) 627-0214