Yangcheon-gu, Education on School Violence Prevention and Response Methods

Yangcheon-gu, Prevention and Response to School Violence... Parents, Attend the Education!

From August to November, ‘Parents Academy’ Special Lectures Inviting Experts on School Violence, Sex Education, and Parent-Child Relationships

Customized Program Reflecting Parents’ Requests from Parent Meetings

August 23 Youth Violence Prevention Education for 400 Participants, First-Come-First-Served Registration on August 7 via District Office Website

Yangcheon-gu (Mayor Lee Gi-jae) announced that it will hold the ‘2023 Customized Parents Academy’ from this month through November at Haenuri Hall in Haenuri Town to strengthen parents’ capabilities as educational stakeholders and foster a healthy educational perspective.

The ‘Customized Parents Academy’ is a special lecture program inviting experts from various fields to share current issues related to parenting and proper child education methods. Reflecting the requests for parent education actively gathered during the regional parent network meetings held in July, this year’s lecture topics are composed of youth violence prevention education, child sex education, and building healthy parent-child relationships.

The first session, Youth Violence Prevention Education (August 23), will invite Yeom Geon-ryeong, Director of the Korea Institute of Criminology, to lecture about ‘From Prevention to Response to Youth Violence: How to Safely Protect Our Children’ to approximately 400 parents and youth safety organization members. The lecture will cover issues threatening children’s safety, from school violence and sexual violence to youth drug crimes, which have recently become social issues, explaining prevention and response methods through actual cases and incidents in an easy-to-understand manner.

Residents wishing to attend can apply in advance starting at 10 a.m. on August 7 through the district office’s integrated reservation portal on its website. Through this special lecture, the district plans to strengthen the safety management capabilities of youth-related organizations and parents, including the Parent Network, Our School Safety Watchers, and the Yangcheon Parents Association.

In October, Lee Chung-min, CEO of the nonprofit organization Pureun Auseong, a sex education specialist, will give a lecture titled ‘Turning Question Marks into Exclamation Points: Our Child’s Puberty Sex Education Prescription,’ sharing sex education methods by developmental stage and digital sexual violence prevention methods according to media development.

The final lecture in November will be delivered by psychiatrist Dr. Kim Ji-yong, covering how to build strong self-esteem in children and healing the hearts of wounded parents, helping to create a happy parenting process through healthy parent-child relationships.

The district will also upload all lectures to its official YouTube channel, ‘YangcheonTV,’ so parents who cannot attend in person can watch anytime.

Mayor Lee Gi-jae of Yangcheon-gu said, “I hope this Parents Academy, which delivers healthy child education perspectives and parenting secrets through topic-specific customized lectures, will help our children grow happily,” adding, “We will continue to operate parent education programs reflecting parents’ needs to make Yangcheon a city where raising children is good.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.