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Recognising Unsafe Situations
As part of a unit on personal safety, class members are asked to assess the level of risk in a series of 20 situations and then share their ratings, and the reasons for these ratings, with others. The goal here is for young people to...
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Looking Out for Each Other
As a culmination of a unit on personal safety, class members develop mnemonics to help them remember ways they can offer practical and emotional support to others. In addition, they are asked to apply what they have learned in the unit...
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Developing My Personal Safety Plans
As part of a health unit on personal safety, partners work together to develop personal safety plans for specific situations they might faced in the future.
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Strategies to Support Safety Plans
Awareness, Avoidance, Distancing. Class members consider the types of protective strategies that would be appropriate in particular situations.
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Planning for Personal Safety
Trust, Talk, Take control. Working in pairs and then groups, class members strategize to develop personal safety plans.
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Setting the Scene
How to establish a safe classroom environment for discussion is the focus of this introduction to a series of six resources devoted to personal safety.