Allambi Care’s Education Consultant, Nataria Roddom, and North Academy’s Wellbeing Coordinator, Gemma Said, are our newly trained Love Bites Facilitators.
Love Bites is a Respectful Relationships Education Program for young people aged 15-17 years. 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.
Nat and Gem have recently been running the ‘Relationships, Love and Control’ program, with North Academy’s year 9 and 10 young people. This covers themes such as gender expectations and relationships, responding to jealous feelings, love and control, warning signs of a controlling/abusive relationship, supporting friends, seeking help and breaking up with respect.
Gemma has said “while these are super tough and triggering topics to talk about with young people, it’s so important that we have these conversations in a supportive environment.”
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.
If you would like more information about this program, please contact the Allambi Care Learning Centre or North Academy.
