PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES

Participants

• Provided with opportunities to experience secure attachment relationships with key adult figures

• To experience the programme environment as a “safe place”

• To experience and understand social well being

• Taught and then supported to implement more adaptive social and problem solving skills

• To complete a programme, achieve success, and for this to be used as a positive narrative building the foundation for future positive outcomes

Participants

• Learning and then practicing a range of verbal and non-verbal self-protective behaviours

• Increasing their self-esteem and self-efficacy

• Improving body, emotional and self-awareness and by doing so, improving their ability to regulate their emotions and behaviours

• Learning and experimenting with social behaviours that are deemed appropriate, acceptable and safe

• Increasing their social competency

• Learning and practicing relaxation exercises and to experience greater sense of inner calm

• Experiencing a sense of a positive school community

• Connecting with different cultural groups around a common activity (e.g., Rock and Water, physical activity) and provided with structure and boundaries within this relationship development process