During February and March 2014, ACC held focus groups and individual interviews with parents, teachers, guidance counsellors, youth workers, public health nurses and students. The purpose was to find out what young people
currently know about having healthy relationships, and how to prevent sexual and dating violence; what their experiences have been with learning about similar subjects at school; where else young people are getting information about relationships; and what
all groups of people spoken to would like to see being
taught on these subjects in schools. The feedback helped inform the development of Mates & Dates, ACC’s new secondary school-based healthy relationships programme piloted in eight schools in Term 3 of 2014. This is a summary of the focus groups held and feedback received. (Introduction). More information, including the Executive summary of the evaluation of the pilot programme is available from the website. Record #4809