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LOVE BiTES : an evaluation of the LOVEBiTES and Respectful Relationships Programs in a Sydney school Michael Flood and Vicki Kendrick

By: Flood, Michael.
Contributor(s): Kendrick, Vicki.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Woolllongong, NSW : University of Woollongong, 2012Description: electronic document (93 p.); PDF file: 10.50 MB.Subject(s): ADOLESCENT RELATIONSHIP ABUSE | ADOLESCENTS | ATTITUDES | BULLYING | CHILDREN | DATING VIOLENCE | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | EDUCATION | EVALUATION | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | PROGRAMMES | PRIMARY PREVENTION | SCHOOLS | YOUNG MEN | YOUNG WOMEN | AUSTRALIA | SEXUAL VIOLENCEOnline resources: Click here to access online Summary: "This document reports on an evaluation of the impact among students of two violence prevention programs run by the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN). The evaluation centres on the LOVEBiTES program run among Year 10 students and a newly developed Respectful Relationships program run among Year 7 students. The evaluation was conducted among students who participated in these programs in a Sydney school in 2010. Students in Years 7 and 10 were surveyed before and after their participation in a thirteenweek program and a full-day workshop respectively, using a quantitative survey. This evaluation report was commissioned by NAPCAN and produced by researchers at the University of Wollongong. The šndings of this evaluation demonstrate a complex and even contradictory impact of the two programs on students. The LOVEBiTES and Respectful Relationships programs had a signišcant and positive impact on students’ attitudes towards domestic violence, attitudes towards gender relations, and skills in having respectful relationships. Students who participated in the two violence prevention programs showed signišcant improvements in their attitudes and skills in these areas. On the other hand, the programs had little or no impact on Year 7 or Year 10 students’ attitudes towards aggression and alternatives to aggression, no impact on Year 10 female students’ attitudes towards dating violence and a mixed impact on males’ attitudes, a mixed impact on Year 10 students’ perceptions of various abusive or coercive behaviours as violence, and a negative impact on Year 7 female students’ attitudes towards bullying." (from the Executive summary)
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"This document reports on an evaluation of the impact among students of two violence prevention programs run by the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN). The evaluation centres on the LOVEBiTES program run among Year 10 students and a newly developed Respectful Relationships program run among Year 7 students.
The evaluation was conducted among students who participated in these programs in a Sydney school in 2010. Students in Years 7 and 10 were surveyed before and after their participation in a thirteenweek program and a full-day workshop respectively, using a quantitative survey. This evaluation report
was commissioned by NAPCAN and produced by researchers at the University of Wollongong. The šndings of this evaluation demonstrate a complex
and even contradictory impact of the two programs
on students. The LOVEBiTES and Respectful
Relationships programs had a signišcant and positive
impact on students’ attitudes towards domestic
violence, attitudes towards gender relations, and
skills in having respectful relationships. Students who
participated in the two violence prevention programs
showed signišcant improvements in their attitudes and
skills in these areas. On the other hand, the programs
had little or no impact on Year 7 or Year 10 students’
attitudes towards aggression and alternatives to
aggression, no impact on Year 10 female students’
attitudes towards dating violence and a mixed impact on males’ attitudes, a mixed impact on Year 10 students’ perceptions of various abusive or coercive behaviours as violence, and a negative impact on Year 7 female students’ attitudes towards bullying." (from the Executive summary)