Empowering Children and Young People
Until the age of 18, adults are responsible for the personal safety of children. By providing the information and education on personal safety to children in our programs, it is hoped that we can help children to understand and appreciate safe, healthy and respectful relationships with their peers and the adults around them. Although our workshop aims and audience vary, all of our child protection workshops and programs are based on the internationally acclaimed Protective Behaviours Personal Safety Program.
We do this
by teaching individuals to:
Recognise when they are feeling unsafe
Tell a trusted adult when they don't feel safe
Understand what are age appropriate and inappropriate sexual behaviours
Understand they always have the right to say ‘NO’ even to adults.
Develop a personal safety network
Increase their confidence and ability to make informed decisions
All children
and young people have a right to:
Be listened to
Be treated with respect and to be protected from harm
Feel and be safe when they do things with adults and other children and young people
Understand as early as possible what is meant by feeling and being safe
Receive the support of counsellors or other adults in their community or at school
Understand age appropriate laws relating to sex, relationships and violence
