| The Youth Education Service produces a wide range of teaching programmes and resources which are available to schools from police education officers. Programmes and resources are grouped under the YES theme they support most, but many have relevance to more than one theme.
Police education officers are trained to work with teachers to develop additional resources that may be needed for a tailored class programme.
Crime Prevention and Social Responsibility
Programmes included in this theme are designed to encourage
children and young people to behave responsibly, assist
with crime prevention and help keep communities safe. Topics
include stealing, vandalism, search and rescue, shoplifting,
being lost, community support, fingerprinting, keeping law
and order, the role of the police and police dogs.
DARE
Included in this section is the range of DARE programmes,
designed to empower young people to avoid illegal drugs
and make sensible choices about their use of alcohol and
other legal drugs. Some DARE programmes have been developed
for use in school classrooms, including a programme in Maori
for classes using Te Reo. Other programmes are for the community
(parents/caregivers and young people in trouble), and are
managed by the community section of DARE
School Road Safety Education
Programmes and resources in this theme have been designed
to enable children and young people to act safely on roads
and amongst traffic. The Road Safe series are integrated
road safety programmes for years 0-13.
Parents may be interested in Helping Hands [32 page PDF 377 KBytes] a road safety resource for paraents.
Helping Hands in Chinese [36 page PDF 553 KBytes]
Helping Hands in Korean [36 page PDF 449 KBytes]
Helping Hands in Samoan [36 page PDF 353 KBytes]
Helping Hands in Tongan [36 page PDF 382 KBytes]
Violence Prevention
Violence prevention programmes are designed to promote the
development of non-violent relationships and to give children
and young people skills to manage violence they may encounter.
The child abuse prevention programme Keeping Ourselves
Safe and the bullying prevention programme Kia Kaha
are important in this theme. There are also teaching materials
about keeping safe at home, babysitting and dealing with
anger.
Other
National Youth Policing Plan 2005-2006
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