Bullying / abuse can lead to school absenteeism and social isolation. This often results in depression and, in some cases, suicidal thoughts. Our Personal Safety training helps empower children / youths by increasing their self confidence, lowering anxiety levels and encouraging them to lead more healthy, active, fuller lives.
Description
We plan to run over 26 Personal Safety training sessions in schools and youth groups across the Three Town area. The training will cover a diverse range of personal safety topics that affect young people's mental health. We will show young people how to avoid and, if necessary, defend themselves against bullies and abusers; how young children can escape from an abduction; how teenagers can identify date rape drugs, spiking and bogus taxi drivers; and we will teach young people self defence skills against a variety of attack scenarios including headlocks, strangulation, knife attacks, back attacks and ground attacks (including defence against sexual assaults for teenage girls, if required).
The empowering effects of our training have been known to save lives - both in defending themselves against potentially lethal attacks and steering young people away from taking their own lives.
For children/youths who are suffering from trauma after being severely attacked by bullies, we will also offer 30 x individual trauma-informed, empowerment-focussed Personal Safety training which includes emotional support to help them recover from their ordeal.
In total, we aim to train / help over 500 children and youths.
A breakdown of our costs are as follows;
20 x Personal Safety sessions in Auchenharvie Academy £400
30 x individual trauma-informed, empowerment-focussed Personal Safety sessions for children/youths traumatised by bullying/abuse. £600
2 x Personal Safety sessions in Ardrossan Academy £40
4 x Personal Safety sessions for Three Town youth groups £160
Transport, lunch and refreshment costs £100
Total cost of this project is £1,300 however our charity will pay £300 towards these costs.
Location: Three Town schools and youth groups plus individual sessions at our Barony St John Centre in Ardrossan
Proposed on behalf of: The Scottish Centre for Personal Safety (local charity)
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