Interpersonal violence – Violence between individuals in families and communities – is a public health problem.”

Etienne KrugDirector

Department of Injuries and Violence PreventionWorld health Organisation

2004

The Public Health Model

1. SURVEILLANCE

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

2. IDENTIFY THE RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS

WHAT ARE THE CAUSES?

3. DEVELOP AND EVALUATE INTERVENTIONS

WHAT WORKS AND FOR WHOM?

4. IMPLEMENTATION SCALING UP EFFECTIVE POLICY AND PROGRAMMES

The MVP ‘Mentors’

• 4th, 5th, 6th Year Group – not just high achievers.

• Young Leaders

• Awards – DofE, Saltire, Young Scot, SQA

• On going training

• Support

What’s next

• Identification of school & community team

• Delivery of 2 day MVP ‘train the trainer’ course’

• Communication to whole school

• Identification & Recruitment of MVP mentors

• Delivery of training to MVP mentors

• Delivery of peer led sessions.

Aims

• Raise Awareness

• Challenge Thinking

• Open Dialogue

• Inspire Leadership

‘The Playbook’

• Corridor – Dating Abuse

• Hanging Around – Sexual Harassment

• Text Messages – Controlling Behaviour

• Photos from a phone – Sex Texting

• Circle of Friends – Sexual Assault

• Lyrics – Sexist Music Lyrics

• Party – Alcohol & Consent

• Words – Homophobic bullying

‘Party’

You're at a party, and when you walk outside, you see a friend of yours trying to get a drunk young

woman to leave with him. She's not just tipsy, she's stumbling over her own feet. You know the young

woman and she seems reluctant.

CfE : HWB 4 – 46a

Train of thought

Is this any of my business?..People who are drinking get together all the time...Then again, she looks really drunk, maybe’s she’s not in a position to make a good decision..What about him? Has he been drinking? Is he planning to drive? I can’t ignore that either..I know a

lot of ‘date rape’ involves alcohol. Could this be one of those situations?...But what if I’m over-reacting? Won’t my friend be mad at me? Will he even listen to me?..

But if I don’t do something I might be letting her down.

What should I do in this situation?

Options• Do nothing. It’s really none of my business.

• Try to get my friend to leave her alone. Tell him he has to be real careful dealing sexually with a drunk girl.

• Find some of her friends and try to convince them to get her home safely.

• Approach the young woman and ask her how she feels, and if she wants help getting home.

• Try to find an adult or someone who seems responsible, and ask them to assist me in defusing this situation.

• Get a group of my friends together, male and female, and confront my friend, firmly telling him to stop pursuing this drunk girl. If he’s been drinking, make sure he doesn’t drive.

• Personal Option

CfE : HWB 4 – 46a

Bystander Approaches work

• Bystander approaches foster and encourage empathy

• How do we stop men going on the defensive ‘Inviting not Indicting is the way to do this’ – treat them as bystanders.

• Bystander intervention training puts an individual or group into a situation from a distance. Its creates a safe place within which a conversation can start.

Evaluation

• Male mentor: “It makes you see that you have to do something because if you don’t, you’re partly responsible for something really bad happening.”

• Male mentor: “One of the options was tell a teacher or an adult you can trust, all of them were like “I wouldn’t tell a teacher.” Well, who would you tell then? And some of them were like “well, we could probably tell you guys.””

Evaluation

• Female mentor: “One of the options is do nothing, a lot of kids [at the beginning] were like “yeah, just do that.” But then by the end they were like “yeah, I’d do maybe a bit of that and a bit of that.” Because you have this motto called “silence is violence”, so it’s like if you do nothing then you’re just letting it happen.”

• Male mentor: “It has opened my eyes. At first I would just walk on by but now I would turn and I would do something and would intervene in any little bit I could. If it’s the smallest thing I still think I know would help then I’d try and help in that way. I think MVP has opened my eyes to that, it’s helped so much. It’s really good.”

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