NAPCAN / Love Bites
Love Bites is an interactive and innovative school-based domestic, family and relationship violence and sexual assault prevention education program aimed at young people aged 14 - 16 years (year 10 students).
The Love Bites program consists of two interactive educational workshops followed by creative workshops that consolidate the information from the educational workshops. The creative works produced by participants are often used for local community based awareness raising activities, events and campaigns. Artworks created by students in 2016 were displayed at local White Ribbon Day events throughout the Inner West.
The program is delivered in schools through a collaborative network of trained service providers from local organisations, known as Love Bites facilitators. Training is provided by NAPCAN (National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect).
In the Inner West, Love Bites is co-ordinated and delivered by Inner West Love Bites.
Inner West Love Bites is a working group of the Leichhardt Marrickville Domestic Violence Liaison Committee. Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre is the lead organisation.
In 2016, Council allocated $15,000 to deliver Love Bites workshops to over 400 students at Sydney Secondary College (Balmain Campus), Marrickville High School and Tempe High School.
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