This crime prevention programme seeks to address and reduce anti-social behaviour in schools and the surrounding community by empowering and developing change agents or “Safety Ambassadors” to interact with and positively influence their peers in the fight against crime, violence and anti-social behaviour.

This programme is school specific. This programme targets learners (15- to 18-year-olds in senior / high schools).

This programme, grounded in the peer socialisation model, involves 12 one-hour life skills training sessions for 30 selected learners.

This group of carefully selected learners, Safety Ambassadors, are

• Empowered with skills, knowledge, motivation and support to serve as positive role models
• Taught how to plan and implement activities to reduce and prevent antisocial behaviour and promote positive, prosocial behaviour in their school.

Parents and educators attend a two-day behaviour management workshop to equip them to support high-risk children

This “whole school” approach supports and encourages...

• The creation of a safe, healthy, drug and alcohol-free learning environment
• Safer communities in which young people are encouraged and inspired to realise academic achievements and live positive, healthy lifestyles as upstanding, contributing members of the community.