Our Aims
a) Equipping, empowering and inspiring children and young people with knowledge and skills to reduce the risk of harmful behaviours by assisting them to:
- build a healthy self esteem and resilience;
- demonstrate respect and empathy for others;
- identify and effectively respond to potentially unsafe situations;
- identify, prevent and stop inappropriate behaviour including emotional, physical and sexual abuse, bullying and self-harming behaviour;
- access help from trusted adults and relevant organisations;
- report abuse and continue reporting until the abuse stops;
- avoid victimisation;
- reduce the risk of engaging in offending behaviour.
b) Equipping, empowering and inspiring adults responsible for children and young people’s safety with knowledge and skills to reduce the risk of harmful behaviors by assisting them to:
- identify risks faced by children and young people;
- recognise, and appropriately respond to, indicators and disclosures of inappropriate behaviour;
- gain an awareness of dangerous safety messages and practices to avoid;
- relay and reinforce key safety concepts and strategies to children and young people and encourage the development of skills to maximise their safety;
- create a supportive environment to promote children and young people’s safety and wellbeing and to build positive relationships with them;
- role model key safety concepts and strategies.
