protective behaviours and BODY SAFETY
eSafeKids strives to reduce and prevent harm through proactive prevention education, supporting and inspiring parents, carers, educators and other professionals to talk with children, young people and vulnerable adults about protective behaviours and body safety.
eSafeKids provides workshops and webinars throughout metropolitan and regional Australia and internationally. All workshops are delivered by Kayelene Kerr.
Teaching children Protective Behaviours and Body Safety in age and developmentally appropriate ways doesn't take away a child's innocence, it helps to protect it.
To prevent abuse, reduce violence and promote safety and wellbeing, protective behaviours education focuses on developing life skills of empowerment, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, problem solving, help seeking, persistence and assertiveness.
Learn more about Protective Behaviours.
Prevalence of Child Abuse in Australia
Findings from the 2023 Australian Child Maltreatment Study indicate 62.2% of the Australian population has experienced at least one type of child maltreatment. Exposure to domestic violence was the most common form of maltreatment, followed by physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and neglect.
Australian children experienced child sexual abuse
More than 1 in 3 girls experience child sexual abuse
Almost 1 in 5 boys experience child sexual abuse
WORKSHOP CONTENT
Overview of Child Abuse in Australia
Child Abuse Facts, Myths & Misconceptions
Grooming Behaviours
Harmful Sexual Behaviours
Responding to a report of child abuse
Protective Interruption
Being Safe & Feeling Safe
Social Norms & Gender Stereotypes
Pornography
Assertiveness
Permission to say no
Persistence
Networks & Safety Teams
Help Seeking & Trusted Adults
Conversation starters
Resources to support in home education and curriculum delivery
Parent / Carer
Protective Behaviours & Body Safety
Teaching children water safety, road safety and sun safety tends to come more naturally to many parents, carers and grandparents. However, personal safety and body safety can be more challenging.
Talking about child abuse is a sensitive topic and sometimes parents/carers don’t know where to start. Thankfully there is a way to provide children with these necessary life skills and strategies that is non-confronting and child friendly.
This comprehensive parent/carer workshop is filled with real world examples to educate, equip, empower, support and inspire you. You will leave this workshop with up-to-date information, conversation starters, practical strategies and resource recommendations.
In Western Australia all students receive protective behaviours prevention education. This workshop compliments the Protective Behaviours education your child should be getting taught at school.
WA Government Schools Department of Education
Under the Department of Education’s Child Protection policy, principals are required to implement protective behaviours education that aligns with the Western Australian Curriculum across all phases of schooling.
WA Non-Government Schools Registration Standard 10
Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse
eSafeKids provides books and resources to support in-home education and conversation.
eSafeKids does not generally deliver in home education sessions. If this is a service you require please submit the contact form below and we can refer you to a service provider.
Professional
Protective Behaviours & Body Safety
Our comprehensive professional development workshop is filled with real world examples to educate, equip, empower, support and inspire you. You will leave this workshop with up-to-date information, conversation starters, practical strategies and resource recommendations.
eSafeKids provides workshops and training specifically for early childhood services.
Our training meets requirements for Australian Children's Education & Care Quality Authority National Quality Standard 2.2.3.
eSafeKids provides books and resources to support curriculum delivery.
In 2011 The Hon Peter Blaxell commenced a Special Inquiry ‘St Andrew’s Hostel Katanning: How the system and society failed our children’. The Blaxell Inquiry highlighted that historically, the teaching has been poor in the area of sex education and protective behaviours, specifically stating it has been; “... of a very low quality and usually limited to the occasional warnings of the “stranger danger” variety. The standard stereotype of child molesters being old men in raincoats sidling up to the school yard was very misleading for children.”
STUDENT WORKSHOPS
There remains a critical need for sexual abuse prevention education to be delivered to secondary school age students. eSafeKids Talking About Sexual Abuse workshop is designed to assist young people: identify unsafe situations; respond in unsafe situations; report unsafe situations.
Educate, equip and empower children with knowledge through stories!
Reading with children provides an opportunity to teach vital life skills in a child friendly, fun, age and stage appropriate way. Reading books that are meaningful can have a lasting impact. Selecting books with teachable moments and content can assist you to discuss a wide range of topics, particularly those that are sometimes tricky and sensitive.
eSafeKids acknowledges the lifelong trauma of abuse experienced by
victims, survivors and their families. Society failed to protect, believe and respond justly to children, young people and adult victim survivors.
