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As a holistic approach for everyone, the PB program is integrated into the school curriculum, reinforced at home, and delivered in communities to educators, professionals, and families.
Protective Behaviours education focuses on personal safety, enabling children to assert their right to physical and psychological safety and seek help from trusted adults if they feel unsafe.
This universal framework comprises themes, strategies, and concepts that develop personal body safety and life skills. It teaches children social and emotional literacy, assertiveness, resilience, persistence, optimism, problem-solving, and the importance of being adventurous in safely risking on purpose.
In Australia, the origins of PB served as a child abuse prevention program. Although the PB program applications have universally evolved over the years and are known by other names, the fundamental foundations of a body safety program remain consistent.
Protective Behaviours Program Guided Topics
The age-appropriate topics are delivered in sequential order, building on each of the concepts and strategies and supporting the two themes:
I continue to be astounded at how many children and adults are telling us how they’re using Protective Behaviours to change their lives and cherish themselves. I have enhanced my own creativity, increased my life energy and sharpened my sense of adventure. How strange it was at first, to realize that work involving something as painful as violence could involve laughter and joy. For as we move beyond reaction to violence, we are moving into the alternatives of empowerment, we are finding new ways to get through painful times. We are finding, even in the midst of it all, excitement, creativity, laughter and adventure for ourselves.