DELETE Teaching Protective Behaviours to Young Children
About this course
Teaching Protective Behaviours to Young ChildrenThe number of child abuse and neglect cases reported to and investigated by Child Protective Services (CPS) in Singapore has risen since 2020. Given the increasing numbers of child sexual abuse cases in Singapore, PAVE Integrated Services Ltd, a Protection Specialist Centre, recognizes the important role that professionals, educators and protective caregivers play in teaching children about Protective Behaviours.
Protective Behaviours is an effective prevention and early intervention programme in promoting child safety. It is a personal safety programme that teaches children skills and strategies to identify and respond to a range of unsafe situations. Learning simple strategies about keeping safe helps children build confidence, resilience and empowers them to be safe in various situations.
In this course, protective adults will learn how to teach children ages 4 to 9 years old the 6 Protective Behaviours topics – being safe and feeling safe, emotional literacy, early warning signs, body safety, personal space and consent, and network and persistence. The purpose of this course is therefore to equip adults who interact with children, with the resources to teach Protective Behaviours
Course Access Period
Please note that this is an online self-paced course where learners will be granted one month of access from the enrolment date. Do also note that the course tile may take up to 48 hours to show up on your dashboard after purchase, and your access will start after it has been made accessible.
What you will learn
On completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate increased awareness about the concepts of Protective Behaviours, including recognizing and responding to unsafe situations, and promoting personal safety and well-being.
- Feel empowered and well- equipped with the knowledge and skills to help children protect themselves and seek help when needed.
- Foster an environment where children feel comfortable discussing their feelings and experiences, especially if they encounter unsafe situations.
About PAVE
PAVE was the first family violence specialist centre set up in Singapore in 1999. A ground-up initiative by social workers, PAVE helps individuals and families survive the violence they face at home. Its individual and group-work programmes support survivors of sexual abuse and violence, children caught in the crossfire, as well as those who use violence. To date, PAVE has helped more than 37,000 clients move past abuse and continues to pioneer creative public education programmes that tackle violence-related issues upstream.
PAVE has been contributing to the development of professional knowledge and to improve the effectiveness of service providers who deal with multi-stressed/dysfunctional families and intra/interpersonal violence. It has received many invitations to train, present on the issue of managing families with multiple stresses as well as on family violence at local and overseas platforms.