Protective Behaviours
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- What is Protective Behaviours Education
- Department of Education
- Reporting
- Professional Development
- Background Notes
- Links
- Resources
- Relevant Learning Activities
What is Protective Behaviours Education
Protective Behaviours is a personal safety and living skills program that focuses on resilience and living skills. Protective Behaviours can be taught in isolation as a topic or context in its own right, or can be taught as part of other existing programs such as Drug education or Growing and Developing Healthy Relationships.
One of the major aspects of Protective Behaviours education is identifying safe and unsafe situations and promoting the ability to minimise risk and enhance safety. Much of this is the skill component of GDHR activities.
Another major aspect of Protective Beahviours is developing the concepts of inappropriate and appropriate touching. Again, many activities within GDHR develop these ideas. The "What if" scenarios contained within the learning activities are crucial to the development of the students' ability to identify a required skill and apply it in other situations that they may face. Below are a variety of relevant GDHR learning activities that relate to Protective Behaviours Education.
Department of Education
Reporting
- Child Neglect Reporting (Dept. of Child Protection WA)
- Child Protection Unit (WA Health-Child Protection Unit)
- Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse (Government of WA- Department for Child Protection)
Professional development
Department of Education teachers can access the following online training
Background information
Links
AgenciesResources
Relevant GDHR learning activities
Early Childhood (K-3)
Middle Childhood (4-7)
- Changes At Puberty
- Conception, Pregnancy and Contraception
- Love and Affection
- Talking About Growing Up
- Social and Emotional Changes
- Expressing Affection
- Reproduction
- Relationships
- Gender and Power: Expectations and Assumptions
- Coercion or Consent - What’s the Difference?
- Sexual Activity: Avoiding and Reducing the Risks
