Real Life: Relationship Education and Awareness for Life

15 March 2009

A schools program aimed at preventing relationship violence and supporting young people to experience positive rewarding relationships. The program is designed to be incorporated into existing year 8 curriculum by a facilitator.

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Peaceful Warriors (PW) / Boys Will Be Men (BWBM) Program

15 March 2009

A 10 week program for boys aged 9 to 12 who will benefit from an adult male focus, promoting positive social skills, ability to manage intense emotions and to help in improving self esteem.

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Healthy Relationships Program

15 March 2009

The program comprising of whole class work for co-ed classes, and targeted group work for young people identified as being at risk of sexual assault.

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CASA House Sexual Assault Prevention Program for Secondary Schools

15 March 2009

A whole-of-school community approach to the prevention of sexual assault. The Program requires Principal-driven commitment to sustaining the program and to engaging a cross-section of the school community.

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Girl Power

15 March 2009

A flexible program delivering self defence and self empowerment education to young women at risk.

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Violence prevention in education policy, March 2009

03 March 2009

Discussion of a couple of recent, highly publicised incidents and presentations from Lara Fergus (Office of Women’s Policy) and Steven O’Connor (Department of Education and Early Childhood Development) Download March 2009 meeting notes (PDF 118kb)

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Sexual health and violence prevention, December 2008

03 December 2008

The connections between relationship violence prevention and sexual health education. Presentations from Shelley Walker, Knox Community Health, Youth ‘KISS’ research project  and Lucy Forwood, Women’s Health West on ‘Girls talk, Guys talk’. There was also a broad discussion of current developments within the sector at the beginning of the meeting. Download Youth ‘KISS’ research project [...]

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2007 – 2008 network meetings

03 September 2008

Theories of change, August 2008 A workshop on Creating Change with Dr Sue Dyson from ARCSHS (Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society). Download Creating Change presentation (powerpoint 1,577kb) Self care and vicarious trauma, June 2008 Self-care and vicarious trauma for violence prevention workers and an evaluation of the first year of Partners in [...]

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About PiP

Partners in Prevention is a capacity building project in Victoria, Australia. PiP targets workers engaging young people in the primary prevention of violence against women.

The Partners in Prevention project is funded by VicHealth and auspiced by DVRC Victoria. Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria logo and VicHealth logo

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