Teenpower Violence Prevention Toolkit

What is the Teenpower Violence Prevention Toolkit?

This programme was developed with the help of teachers and 70 students after a survey of over 200 people highlighted the need for a low-cost, user friendly, interactive, realistic and engaging resource that addresses personal safety risks for young people like peer pressure, bystander syndrome etc.
Evidence shows that it builds skills for real life by:

providing opportunities for students to practise experiential, evidence and success-based violence prevention strategies and skills (using informative role plays and skill practices).
ensuring that these skills are directly relevant and appropriate for young people’s experiences and communities (using real life stories).
building courage, team spirit, and ownership (using creative projects).
providing a valuable, ready-to-use resource for teachers to fulfill NZ Curriculum requirements and to turn behavioural and interpersonal challenges into learning opportunities.

As a result, New Zealand teenagers have more skills to cope with many interpersonal challenges in daily life and enjoy safe intimate relationships. They:

recognise warning signs
set appropriate boundaries
de-escalate confrontational situations
help others as active bystanders
know where and how to access help
persist to get the help they need

Teenpower Violence Prevention SkillCards – Online Edition

Download the FREE Teenpower Violence Prevention SkillCards

The adapted version of Teenpower Violence Prevention Programme with 20 Skill Cards for young people to learn, develop and practice a range of experiential, evidence and success-based violence prevention strategies and skills (using skill practices), that will help them to keep safe in a variety of situations including online interactions.