ABOUT
Jonathan Cristall, Esq., spent his own teen years taking unnecessary risks and getting into avoidable trouble. Now a veteran prosecutor for the City of Los Angeles, he went from disregarding laws to enforcing them. Cristall, a certified sexual violence prevention instructor, teaches physical, digital, emotional, and legal life safety skills. His award-winning book, What They Don’t Teach Teens, is available on Amazon.com and other places where books are sold. More info at WTDTT.com.
PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
Young people coming of age today face new risks, expectations, and laws that simply didn’t exist when their teachers, parents, and guardians were young. Jonathan Cristall, a City of Los Angeles prosecutor and the author of the award-winning book, What They Don’t Teach Teens, conducts workshops to sensitize and clarify the many complicated, delicate situations that young people face, both in and out of school, and provides ways parents and educators can empower them to make good choices. Jonathan offers the following five workshops for parents, educators, young adults, teens, and tweens:
What They Don’t Teach Teens Book Overview & Critical Lessons
Approximately 60 minutes including Q&A, but can be adjusted based on time restrictions
What They Don’t Teach Teens Book Overview and Critical Lessons, including:
- This workshop provides an overview of the book’s three parts (1) Street Safety
and Safer Police Interactions (2) Sexual Violence and Misconduct (3) Digital
Pitfalls & Best Practices - This is an excellent choice for parents and educators
- It is highly recommended that participants are provided with a copy of the book in advance of the workshop (at the time of the workshop is fine)
- Prospective lesson plans are discussed (for educators)
What They Don’t Teach Teens: Digital Pitfalls & Best Practices
Approximately 60 minutes including Q&A, but can be adjusted based on time restrictions
- How to protect and enhance one’s digital footprint (focusing on what employers and college administrators want to see/not see in a candidate’s footprint)
- Digital citizenship
- Cyberbullying
- Potential pitfalls of smartphone cameras (focus on laws/consequences of underage
sexting, sextortion, and revenge porn) - Protecting one’s digital privacy from bad actors
- The importance of finding a trusted person when support is needed
What They Don’t Teach Teens: Healthy Intimate Relationships & Connections
Approximately 60 minutes including Q&A, but can be adjusted based on time restrictions
- Sexual consent (what it is, what it is not, how to ask for it, circumstances in which consent cannot be obtained)
- Dating violence (what it is, how to identify, how to safely seek help for yourself or a loved one)
- Sextortion, aka, online sexual blackmail (what it is and how to best protect yourself)
- Sexual harassment in a school environment (what it is, how to identify, how to combat, how to safely seek help)
- The importance of and how to find a trusted person to talk to if one might be a victim of sexual violence
What They Don’t Teach Teens: Safer Police Interactions
Approximately 60 minutes including Q&A, but can be adjusted based on time restrictions
- Your rights under the 4th Amendment (police searches) and how to exercise them most safely
- Your rights under the 5th Amendment (police questioning) and how to exercise them most safely
- What to do and what not do when stopped by police while in a vehicle or on foot
- Racial injustice in policing and how it may impact invocation of your rights
- How to differentiate between detentions, consensual encounters, and arrests
- The game changer if you break the law: you’ve turned 18
What They Don’t Teach Teens: Safer Get Togethers
Approximately 60 minutes including Q&A, but can be adjusted based on time restrictions
- Sexual consent and the consumption of alcohol (or other drugs)
- Situational awareness when out and about
- Bystander intervention techniques and 911 Immunity laws
- Social host liability laws (when adults can be held liable for underage drinking that occurs in their homes)
- Potential consequences of using a fake ID
- Your rights when police show up at the party and want to search or question you
Please note: (1) all workshops are approximately 60 minutes in length, including Q&A, but can be adjusted based on time restrictions, and; (2) customized workshops by mixing and matching from the offerings above are also possible.
