Love Bites Respectful Relationships Program
NAPCAN (National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect)
Love Bites (ages 15-17) and Love Bites Junior (ages 11-14) are extremely successful Respectful Relationships Education Programs for young people.
- ACT
- NSW
- NT
- QLD
- SA
- Tas
- Vic
- WA
Pricing: Paid
Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts
Affiliations: Departments of Education NSW and NT; Approved elsewhere: NSW About affiliations
Product type: Program; Fact sheets; Activity sheets; Student activities; Professional learning; Presentation by an expert or speaker ; Whole school approach or initiative; External support services; Learning modules; Class lesson plans
Contact details
NAPCAN (National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect)
ABN: 21 904 097 344
Program website: https://www.napcan.org.au/programs/love-bites/
Program contact email: Training@napcan.org.au
Focus areas
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Positive relationships
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Bullying and cyber-bullying
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Resilience and optimism
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Self-esteem and body image
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Respectful relationships and consent education
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E-safety and digital literacy
Curriculum alignment
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Health and PE
Prospective users
Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1), Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2)
Communities: Diverse cultures or language groups, First Nations, Rainbow and LGBTQIA+
Context: School or centre-based
Main beneficiaries: Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12
Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained; Delivered by program staff
Aims & approach
Love Bites aims to provide young people with a safe environment to examine, discuss and explore respectful relationships. All Love Bites programming takes a strength-based approach and views young people as active participants who are able to make choices for themselves and their relationships when supported with information and opportunity for skill development.
The programs consist of interactive workshops that cover a diverse range of topics about respectful relationships, which differ based on the target year level.
- Love Bites is a Respectful Relationships Education Program for young people aged 15-17 years.
- Love Bites Junior is a respectful relationships education program that focuses on the development of respectful relationships for 11-14 year olds.
Love Bites is a flexible model with options to use a full day or multi-session delivery approach. The program emphasises the importance of a whole-of-school commitment to respectful relationship education.
Love Bites Facilitator Training is a Fee for Services structure. The delivery of the program into schools by a trained teacher is free.
Implementation support
- Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
- Implementation training webinars or modules
- Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support
- Regular webinars or access to community of professional practice
Evidence
Love Bites is based on best practice standards for education programs as recommended by the Federal Government funded Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearing House and other leading academics in the area of violence against women. The following evidence and frameworks have informed the development of NAPCAN's Love Bites program to meet best practice standards, which include:
- VicHealth standards for Respectful Relationships Education
- Department of Education and Training Victoria Respectful Relationships Whole School Approach
- Respectful Relationships Education in Schools - Evidence Paper from Our Watch, 2021
- Change the Story - A shared framework for the primary prevention of violence against women and their children in Australia (2nd ed.) - Our Watch, VicHealth and ANROWS, 2021.
Further resources can be found on the NAPCAN website here.