Respect: Keep It Going! Kit

When a youth or young adult’s self-respect—and respect for others—is going strong, anything is possible. They make healthier choices, create respectful relationships, achieve their goals and become leaders who spread respect for all. With the Respect: Keep It Going! Kit, advocates can be trained to lead a respect-building program for 6 to 18 weeks.

The Respect: Keep It Going! Kit
Leader’s Guide: A respect-building program
By Courtney Macavinta

During their “Respect Pod” sessions throughout the program, participants learn to:
• use the Respect Basics to build self-respect and make healthy choices
• value themselves
• follow their passions
• set boundaries and speak up
• listen to their gut and compassionately listen to others
• create relationships based on mutual respect
• get help dealing with disrespect dilemmas, such as peer pressure, dating and domestic violence, bullying, negative body image, sexting, the “-isms” and other tough issues
• lead social change to create a better world where all people are respected

The program builds on the themes and activities featured in our popular Respect Rally program, which we’ve led for thousands of youth and young adults around the United States.

Respect Pod sessions are:
• delivered during a 6- to 18-week program (your choice!)
• 60-minutes, experiential and include group discussion
• easily shortened, customized to fit within a wider youth development program and require minimal prep and supplies
• designed using the same activity template to create a consistent experience
• written to be led by adults in partnership with participants
can be delivered as part of a support group, after-school program, school advisory/family group, classroom series or as part of a school club

Also included:
• evaluation templates and handouts
• membership to the Respect Connect social network, which includes training webinars, videos for Sessions, tips from other Kit users, a digital copy of the Kit and other resources

Want to get the Kit? Go to Program Inquires under the Contact Us tab above.

“The Respect: Keep It Going! Kit is extraordinary in its ability to provide fun, low-risk exercises to explore some of the most challenging issues teens face. The lessons are easy to teach and they’re full of heart. The Kit gets teens’ attention right away. I am excited to work with this curriculum!”
Rachel Simmons, founder of The Girls Leadership Institute and author of Odd Girl Out

“Our faculty was trained to use the Respect: Keep It Going! Kit and we’ve have modified the lessons to use in a 6-week ‘Respect Mini-Series’ during our weekly homeroom meetings. We’re planning on implementing lessons in our homerooms every year as part of a school-wide goal to increase respect among our students.”
Amy Gose, guidance counselor, Blessed Trinity Catholic High School in Georgia

Product Details
Reading level: Teen and Young Adult
Paperback: 143 pages
Publisher: Respect Rx (January 1, 2010)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 11.5 inches