Protective Education

Protective Education is a program that aims to provide children and young people with the skills to help keep themselves and others safe. The program focuses on developing children and young people’s communication and self-esteem and encourages them to: 

  • Assert their right to feel safe
  • Listen to what their body tells them
  • Take action to either solve the problems on their own or ask for help from others.

The key messages

  1. We all have the right to feel safe all the time
  2. Its okay to say NO if we feel unsafe or unsure
  3. Nothing is so ‘yucky’ that we can’t tell someone about it

The key concepts

  • My Body Belongs to Me
  • Public & Private
  • Early Warning signs
  • Safe and Unsafe Secrets
  • Networks / Safety Team
  • Keep telling until someone Listens and Acts

With the majority of children and young people abused by someone known to them, Protective Education provides parents and caregivers with the knowledge, skills, language and confidence to provide a safe way of talking about the issue of child abuse.