Jade speaks up! : Test of an insurance approach to the prevention of violence. Paper presented at the Conference of the Aotearoa Community Development Association and the International Community Development Association, Auckland, 15-17 February, 2017 Geoff Bridgman, Elaine Dyer, Andrea O'Hagan and Michael McCarthy
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This paper explains why ACC is funding Jade Speaks Up, a violence prevention programme targeted at 8 to 11 year olds and which over a 6 -week period teaches children how to keep themselves safe. It describes the programme and the outcomes from the first school in which the programme has been
delivered, and shows excerpts from the animated video that is centre-piece of the programme ACC is funding a trial of this programme which will be delivered to nine intermediate level schools involving 1250 children and over 40 teachers. The evaluation involves both experimental and control
groups, pre - and post-tests, a six -month follow -up and a switch of the control group to the experimental condition at the beginning of the subsequent term. (From the paper). Record #5471