PREVAIL focuses on 5 axes / basic protection factors, which adapt and work according to the age and stage of development of childhood and adolescence:

1. Body Autonomy: Your body is your own and it is necessary to know it. Body autonomy is based on self-knowledge and respect for our bodies. If girls, boys and adolescents know their body and how it works, they will feel more comfortable and will better recognize their own sensations and limits for making decisions. Knowing the names of each part of the body is emphasized, as well as positive and negative ways of touching and sharing with other people. The participants identify the private parts of their body as those normally covered by a bathing suit, and they know and reflect on the concept of “consent” to touch others.
2. The right to say NO!: People have the right to 1) share, to be listened to and taken care of about what bothers us, free from doubts, guilt or the minimization or denial of our feelings; 2) reject any practice that we consider damages our physical, mental and / or emotional integrity, without being judged or blamed for it; 3) recognize and name our limits and 4) say NO! in any situation that makes us uncomfortable: from greeting a relative with a kiss to going to a place that does not make us feel safe. Children and adolescents have the right to decide. This axis focuses on recognizing the protection strategies that girls and boys implement to feel safer (accompanying themselves to places that they perceive as risky, such as the bathroom or on the way home), underlining the responsibility of adults in protection and prevention in the face of situations of risk and / or abuse towards girls, boys, adolescents; and put the accent on identifying and communicating situations of abuse to trusted people, with the security of being recognized and cared for.
3. Identification of emotions: Recognizing our emotions is essential to identify when a situation or a person makes us uncomfortable and to recognize signs of abuse. Learning to know our emotions and to name them will help us communicate what we don’t like. Children learn to recognize alarm signals that their body gives them when they feel uncomfortable, such as sweating on the body or palms of the hands, trembling, feeling weak legs, goose bumps, upset stomach, wanting to go to the bathing, crying, or nausea.
4. Good and bad secrets: There are secrets between friends that generate complicity, but there are secrets that we should not keep in any way. If a child has a secret that makes them feel uncomfortable, or if someone asks them to keep a secret that makes them feel bad, they will learn to recognize the difference and turn to their support network. In this way, protective factors against practices such as “grooming” are worked on.
5. Support networks. Girls and boys, they are not alone!: There are people we can turn to when a situation or person we do not like or make uncomfortable. The adults who love and protect us will believe us if we tell them what happens to us. The girls and boys will identify their trusted adults, inside and outside the home. They will also learn to recognize themselves as part of the support network of their peers.