Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships
Victorian Department of Education
The Respectful Relationships program supports schools and early childhood settings to promote and model respect, positive attitudes and behaviours - teaching our children how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence.
- Online
- Vic
Pricing: Free
Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts
Affiliations: Approved elsewhere: VIC About affiliations
Product type: Student activities; Activity sheets; Learning modules; Class lesson plans
Contact details
Victorian Department of Education
ABN: 52 705 101 522
Program website: https://arc.educationapps.vic.gov.au/learning/sites/respectful-relationships/1785/Respectful-Relationships-resources
Program contact email: respectful.relationships@education.vic.gov.au
Focus areas
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Positive relationships
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Belonging and inclusion
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Bullying and cyber-bullying
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Mental health literacy and life skills
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Self-regulation and engagement
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Resilience and optimism
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Respectful relationships and consent education
Curriculum alignment
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Health and PE
Prospective users
Audience: Whole class universal (Tier 1)
Context: School or centre-based
Main beneficiaries: Early learning, Foundation/Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12
Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained
Aims & approach
The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships learning materials have been designed for teachers in primary and secondary schools to develop students' social, emotional and positive relationship skills. The learning materials cover eight topics:
- emotional literacy
- personal and cultural strengths
- positive coping
- problem-solving
- stress management
- help-seeking
- gender norms and stereotypes
- positive gender relations
The Victorian Department of Education implements Respectful Relationships across Victorian schools and early childhood services through freely available online resources, as well as delivery support in the forms of a lead and partner schools initiative, a professional development program for early childhood educators, and a regional Respectful Relationships workforce.
Implementation support
- Implementation training webinars or modules
- Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support
Evidence
Efforts to promote social and emotional skills and positive gender norms in children and young people has been shown to improve health related outcomes and subjective wellbeing. It also reduces antisocial behaviours including engagement in gender-related violence.
The positive impact of the program is supported by evaluation summaries, progress summaries, and case study videos available at https://www.vic.gov.au/respectful-relationships.