Protective Behaviours..... What We Teach
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Protective Behaviours is an internationally acclaimed prevention education program which focuses on
personal safety skills that adults can easily learn and then teach to children of all ages. Protective Behaviours, through targeted prevention strategies, actively works towards empowering children to make well-informed decisions about what is safe and what is unsafe, teaching them how to problem solve when they feel unsafe and how to access help when they need it. In teaching these concepts and strategies, Protective Behaviours aims to increase safety, prevent abuse and reduce violence in our communities. |
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It is a practical program and is easy to understand. It offers a fun, interactive style of teaching and does
not use scare tactics to get the safety messages across to the child. It works well with children (and adults)
of all races, ages, abilities, culture and gender … it is for all people!
What do we teach?
Protective Behaviours provides a framework that can easily be adapted to home, school and community
environments. Children learn to understand the concepts of ‘safe’ and ‘unsafe’ and learn what to do when
they feel unsafe. Some of the topics we teach children include:
The Protective Behaviours Program teaches children all of these preventative strategies in a non-
threatening and non-sexual way. It is a practical program and is easy to understand. It offers a fun,
interactive style of teaching the concepts and does not use scare tactics to get the messages across. It
works well with children (and adults) of all races, ages, abilities, cultures and gender … it is for all people!
not use scare tactics to get the safety messages across to the child. It works well with children (and adults)
of all races, ages, abilities, culture and gender … it is for all people!
What do we teach?
Protective Behaviours provides a framework that can easily be adapted to home, school and community
environments. Children learn to understand the concepts of ‘safe’ and ‘unsafe’ and learn what to do when
they feel unsafe. Some of the topics we teach children include:
- Recognising their feelings and how to effectively express them.
- Theme One of Protective Behaviours … ‘we all have the right to feel safe at all times’.
- Protective Behaviours includes ‘feeling safe’ in their ‘Bill of Rights’.
- Learning that ‘feeling safe’ or ‘feeling unsafe’ is an internal process – children learn how to focus on the
- signals within their bodies.
- The difference between safe and unsafe secrets and what to do when they are asked to keep an unsafe
- secret.
- Learning that they can talk with someone if they feel unsafe or asked to keep an unsafe secret. (Theme Two of Protective Behaviours … ‘We can talk with someone about anything, no matter what it is’.
- Helping children to develop a ‘safety network’ of trusted adults whom they can talk with.
- Learning about persistence; to persist in asking for help when they feel unsafe.
- Learning that every person is the boss of his/her own body and the importance of using correct terminology for all public and private parts of the body.
- The difference between safe and unsafe touching and what to do when being touched in an unsafe way.
- Learning that they have a right to protect their personal space and a responsibility to respect the personal space of others.
The Protective Behaviours Program teaches children all of these preventative strategies in a non-
threatening and non-sexual way. It is a practical program and is easy to understand. It offers a fun,
interactive style of teaching the concepts and does not use scare tactics to get the messages across. It
works well with children (and adults) of all races, ages, abilities, cultures and gender … it is for all people!