Teachers
Curriculum Elements Covered by
Ali's Secret
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM: Health & Physical Education
- ACPPS033: (early help seeking behaviours)
- ACPPS035: (recognising physical responses that indicate they are feeling uncomfortable or unsafe.)
- ACPPS038: (recognising own emotional responses and levels of their response in different situations)
- ACPPS053: Investigate community resources and ways to seek help about health, safety and wellbeing.
- ACPP056: Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships
- NSW Syllabus PDHPE: see PDe-2, PD3-2, PD4-2, PD5-2
Barriers
If 1 in 5 students are victims of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA); why aren’t teachers and guidance officers flooded with disclosures?
The 2013-2017 Royal Commission into [child abuse] discovered that it takes an average of 24 years to disclose institutional CSA. The dominant barrier was shame/ embarrassment. On top of that, 25% of victims feared retribution and 25% feared not being believed.
Most victims develop strategies to live productive and functional lives but the earlier a child can disclose and seek help, the better chance they have of finding safety and healing (and the earlier that offenders can seek correction).
Teachers, Guidance Officers, Chaplains etc. can play a key role in empowering victims to disclose, through existing elements of the HPE curriculum
Secrets:
A four part resilience program
1: BOUNDARIES
Students explore physical, social and personal boundaries.
Intro game: ‘Hop to it’
2: WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE SOMETHING IS WRONG, DO SOMETHING
Students explore body awareness and rehearsed responses
Intro game: ‘Flight, Fight, Fawn or Freeze’
3: BROKEN BOUNDARIES
Students explore resilience strategies and self worth
Intro game: ‘Spaghetti fence’
4: COURAGE TO DISCLOSE
Students explore courage and disclosure
Intro drama: ‘A Broken Secret’
