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Skills for safety : an evaluation of the value, impact and outcomes of girls' and women's self defence in the community prepared by Jan Jordan and Elaine Mossman

By: Jordan, Jan.
Contributor(s): Mossman, Elaine.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Women’s Self Defence Network – Wāhine Toa, 2016Description: electronic document (192 pages); PDF file.Subject(s): EVALUATION | SELF DEFENCE | WOMEN | YOUNG WOMEN | PREVENTION | FAMILY VIOLENCE | SEXUAL VIOLENCE | NEW ZEALANDOnline resources: Click here to access online | Executive summary | 4 page brief Summary: This report presents findings from the ‘Skills for Safety’ project, an outcome evaluation of girls' and women's self defence courses run by the WSDN-WT is a nationwide network of specialist trained accredited women teachers of self defence that has been in operation for 28 years. WSDN-WT has always been committed to evaluating the quality of their programmes and their ability to achieve their goals, with post course evaluation an integral part of the delivery of their courses. However, in the current climate of rWomen’s Self Defence Network – Wāhine Toa (WSDN-WT). Record #4980esults based accountability, to ensure sustainable funding they recognised the importance of rigorous evaluation carried out by independent researchers. The ‘Skills for Safety’ research project has been completed by two independent researchers, Associate Professor Jan Jordan (Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington) and Dr Elaine Mossman (Adjunct Research Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington) and was made possible with funding provided by the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). (From the Executive summary). Record #4980
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This report presents findings from the ‘Skills for Safety’ project, an outcome evaluation of girls' and women's self defence courses run by the WSDN-WT is a nationwide network of specialist trained accredited women teachers of self defence that has been in operation for 28 years. WSDN-WT has always been committed to evaluating the quality of their programmes and their ability to achieve their goals, with post course evaluation an integral part of the delivery of their courses. However, in the current climate of rWomen’s Self Defence Network – Wāhine Toa (WSDN-WT). Record #4980esults based accountability, to ensure
sustainable funding they recognised the importance of rigorous evaluation carried out by independent researchers. The ‘Skills for Safety’ research project has been completed by two independent researchers, Associate Professor Jan Jordan
(Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington) and Dr Elaine Mossman (Adjunct Research Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington) and was made possible
with funding provided by the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). (From the Executive summary). Record #4980

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