Love Bites
The Love Bites Program
An integral part of our campaign against Domestic & Family Violence will be the Love Bites program, to educate young people about respect and respectful relationships
About Love Bites
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 & young people.
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Students participate annually in Love Bites in NSW alone
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Facilitators have been trained across all Australian states and territories to enable them to deliver the program into local schools.
Love bites Senior
The New Trauma Responsive Love Bites Senior Program is Here!
Love Bites Senior is a Respectful Relationships Education program for young people aged 15-17. The program is built on a trauma-responsive framework, shaped by research with ACU and guided by the lived experiences of young survivors. It is designed to create a safe space for young people to explore respectful relationships, using a strengths-based approach that empowers them to participate, build skills, and make informed choices.
The Trauma Responsive Senior Program is divided into 5 key topic areas:
- Understanding & building respectful relationships.
- How gender stereotypes affect respectful relationships.
- Abuse in relationships – when things start to go wrong.
- Relationships, sex and consent.
- Speaking out, offering support and creating change.
The program can be delivered as a full-day or in multiple session format. It emphasises the importance of a whole-school commitment to respectful relationship education.
Love bites Junior
Love Bites Junior is designed for young people aged 11-14, focusing on respectful relationships development. It includes three programs that build on the success of the original Love Bites program, which has been implemented since 2003. Community feedback highlighted the need for respectful relationship education for younger students.
The program consists of three parts:
- Respectful Relationships Start With Me (Year 7): Covers identity, emotions, relationships, consent, stereotypes, conflict, online safety, and respectful behaviours in real-life and digital spaces.
- Respectful Relationships, Stereotypes & Upstanding (Year 8): Explores identity, diversity, stereotypes, consent, respectful behaviour, online safety, bullying, boundaries, and standing up for others.
- Respectful Relationships, Love, and Control (Year 9): Focuses on values, emotions, gender messages, consent, breakups, online behaviours, support-seeking, and building safe, respectful relationships.
These programs are designed to be delivered consecutively, with each session building upon the skills and knowledge of the previous one.