KidzLive: I Can Protect Myself (Direct Delivery) KidzLive aims to impart body safety skills to young children to prevent sexual abuse. Through interactive approaches such as storytelling and a song, this programme teaches children to identify their private body parts, differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate actions and behaviour, and to know what to do if they are caught in potential sexual abuse situations. This programme is conducted in pre-schools upon request, and we reached out to more than 1,400 kindergarten two children across 66 pre-school centres in 2017.
KidzLive: Empowering Children with Body Safety Skills (Parents’ Talk) Our Parents’ Talk aims to enhance caregivers’ knowledge on child sexual development milestones and what constitutes normal and inappropriate sexual behaviour. This talk also provides tips to help parents discuss with their children about body safety and to reinforce these skills.
KidzLive: Empowering Children with Body Safety Skills (Teachers’ Training Course) In 2017, we started a Teachers’ Training course which is listed in the Continuing Professional Development Courses endorsed by ECDA. This course seeks to
enhance the knowledge, skills and practices of early childhood educators. We conducted five training sessions for a total of 104 educators in the year.
As part of our efforts to advocate the teaching of body safety skills to children, we presented our work at three different platforms in 2017: • The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human RightsThe ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (AICHR-ACWC) Training Workshop on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). (July) • The Singapore Mental Health Conference. (September) • The ASEAN-UNICEF Symposium on ‘Leaving No One Behind’ held in Bangkok, Thailand. (September)
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