What is Personal Safety Education & Why is it Important?
Personal safety education (also known as protective behaviours education) teaches children lifelong strategies to build confidence, increase resilience, and decrease vulnerability to child abuse, including sexual abuse.
Ditto’s Keep Safe Adventure program aims to equip children with the knowledge and skills to recognise unsafe situations, identify feelings and warning signs, establish personal boundaries, and seek help when they feel unsafe or unsure. This increases the likelihood that the child will speak out if they feel unsafe and tell someone they trust, which can assist with interrupting or preventing sexual abuse and grooming, bullying and peer relationships, and other harmful situations, including domestic and family violence.
At its heart, Ditto’s Keep Safe Adventure program champions the belief that children should learn about personal safety through education, not experience.