The following are the programs that are offered, evaluated and adapted in partnership with children and young people and their communities, to be locally relevant, culturally-strengthening and sustainable.
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NT Respectful Relationships Program
Preschool Programs
The preschool program All Children Being Safe aligns with the Early Years Learning Framework and National Quality Standard. The preschool program focuses on children understanding safe feelings, people and places.
4-5 years old
All Children Being Safe for preschool is an interactive, protective behaviours program. Children learn to identify safe and unsafe feelings, people, and places as well as where to go to access support. The program use storytelling, puppets, costumes, music, movement, art & craft and small group experiences.
ISSUES COVERED
Safe feelings, people and places
Help seeking
Resilience
6 lesson plans and activities (1 hour duration each)
Primary School Programs
The latter primary programs are currently being written with children and teaching staff in schools in NSW and the NT. The programs are being written to support and enhance State, Territory and National Curriculums. NAPCAN provides professional training and support to teachers to facilitate all these programs.
Prep/Kindergarten – Year 1
All Children Being Safe for early primary is an interactive, protective behaviours program. Children learn to identify safe and unsafe feelings, people, and places as well as where to go to access support. The program use storytelling, puppets, costumes, music, movement, art & craft and small group experiences.
ISSUES COVERED
Safe feelings, people and places
Help seeking
Resilience
6 lesson plans and activities (1 hour duration each)
High School Programs
The high school programs are currently being written with children and teaching staff in schools in NSW and the Northern Territory. The programs are being written to support and enhance State, Territory and National Curriculums. The Love Bites program for Year 10 is available now. Each year has a slightly different focus that builds on the previous years. All programs have a creative component encouraging young people to produce prevention resources around respectful relationships.
12-13 years old. Year 7
Young people will understand the challenges of the transition to High School, to define how power and control are used, to define bullying behaviour and it’s impact, define what an active and passive bystander are.
ISSUES COVERED
Transition to high school, power & control, bullying, bystander strategies, homophobia, community attitudes & beliefs, violence and sexual assault.
7 lesson plans and activities (1 hour duration each)
13-14 years old. Year 8
Young people will understand the impact of gender stereotypes on relationships, be able to define sexual harassment and its links to bullying, define homophobia, its impact and strategies to challenge it, develop skills in being an active bystander, identify the difference between love and control, begin exploring sex, consent and sexual assault.
ISSUES COVERED
Bullying and sexual harassment, bystander strategies, gender, homophobia, sex and consent, love and control, community attitudes and beliefs.
6 lesson plans and activities (1 hour duration each)
14-15 years old. Year 9
Young people will understand the impact of gender stereotypes on relationships, including homophobia, define respectful and controlling or violent relationships, begin exploring sex, consent and sexual assault, develop skills and knowledge on how to manage difficulties in their relationships, including ending a relationship safely and respectfully.
ISSUES COVERED
Bullying, bystander strategies, gender, homophobia, sex and consent, love and control, community attitudes and beliefs, violence and sexual assault, managing conflict and ending relationships.
6 lesson plans and activities (1 hour duration each)
14-16 years old. LoveBites
Young people will be able to de fine types of relationship violence, identify the differences between respectful and loving behaviour in a relationship and abusive and controlling behaviour in a relationship, including consenting sex and sexual assault, and participate in creating and leading a community awareness raising campaign around respectful relationships.
ISSUES COVERED
Bystander strategies, sex and consent, love and control, attitudes and beliefs, violence and sexual assault.
1-2 day education and creative workshops, followed by a supported, youth-led campaign.
16-17 years old. LoveBites Leadership
Young people will understand how to be leaders as active bystanders in relation to relationship violence and respectful relationships, including concerns with safety, ethics and friendship.
ISSUES COVERED
Bystander behaviour, safety, community awareness, active bystander techniques.
1 day interactive workshop based in or out of school.
The Growing Respect Approach
A Partnership between GROWING RESPECT and Your Community
Together, the GROWING RESPECT team believes that:
- All communities can build respectful and healthy relationships;
- We must always be role models of respectful relationships;
- Children and young people’s voices need to guide our work.
A partnership for GROWING RESPECT will be based on collaboration, mutual learning and respect. The GROWING RESPECT team will:
- Spend time building relationships;
- Be guided by local people about what is culturally safe practice;
- Share our experiences and knowledge openly;
- Work to enhance local strengths, values and knowledge.
The GROWING RESPECT team are committed to undertaking research and evaluation that are collaborative and useful to communities themselves. With the community as an active partner throughout, the purpose of the GROWING RESPECT Research and Evaluation framework is:
- To generate knowledge and promote investment in what works to strengthen respectful relationships and reduce gender-based violence, as defined by the children, young people and their communities;
- To research and understand children and young people’s attitudes to respectful relationships to inform prevention education curriculum;
- To comprehensively evaluate the impact of child and youth-led, respectful relationships education in creating attitude and behaviour change in children and young people;
- To evaluate the impact of participatory, community-led processes and curriculum development on community networks and systems.
NAPCAN will continue to support and provide professional development to GROWING RESPECT communities as they implement the curriculum. Program evaluation will continue in communities to assess the program relevance for children and young people.
- Active participation in the development of respectful relationships education and awareness-raising campaigns for their communities;
- Developing an ethical framework to identify and establish their own respectful relationships;
- Developing critical thought to make informed choices and have their voices heard.