- Target:
- The Government of Canada
- Region:
- Canada
- Website:
- www.protect-kids.org
The Government of Canada estimates that sexual and physical childhood abuse costs this country $15 billion dollars a year.
The Great Kid programs include the most recent recommendations about core content.
Rather than discussing “good touch” and “bad touch,” the Great Kid programs stress positive and negative feelings about touch and that children can decide for themselves how they feel about a touch.
• Daro (1994) concluded children aged 7-12 received the strongest beneficial effects of prevention programming. This is the targeted age group for the I’m A Great Kid! programs.
• According to Finkelhor, Asdigan & Dziuba-Leatherman (1995) there are five vital elements for a program to be considered a comprehensive child abuse or child sexual abuse program:
1. content about touch, telling an adult, and abuse is never the child’s fault;
2. a chance to practice in class;
3. information to take home;
4. a meeting with parents;
5. repetition of material over more than a single day.
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The Proposal For A Holly’s Law petition to The Government of Canada was written by Revern Douglas Tebbutt and is in the category Education at GoPetition.