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RESEARCH AND CONSULTING
Strategies for Healthy Youth Relationships is a consortium of researchers and professionals dedicated to promoting healthy adolescent relationships and reducing risk behaviours. We develop and evaluate programs, resources and training materials for educators and other front-line professionals who work with youth.
Click here for a summary of Fourth R findings (May 2010)
ENGAGING AND EMPOWERING ABORIGINAL YOUTH: A TOOLKIT FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS The toolkit presents a wide range of guidelines, strategies, templates and case studies for those who work with Aboriginal youth, and is divided into four sections: background and overview, guiding principles, working with schools, and research and evaluation. ...More
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THE FOURTH R: PROMOTING YOUTH WELL-BEING THROUGH HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS This project applies an innovative multi-systemic intervention model that uses schools as hubs to incorporate prevention activities aimed at youth in classrooms, schools, through work with parents and families, and community partners. ...More
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CANADIAN PREVENTION SCIENCE CLUSTER PROJECT The Canadian Prevention Science Cluster (CPSC) brings together leading researchers and practitioners from across Canada who are dedicated to reducing violence and abuse and promoting healthy relationships among youth. ...More
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NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT We are now in the process of taking the Comprehensive Fourth R School-Based Prevention Program to sites across Canada. The primary funding for this ambitious undertaking has been provided by the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation and the Crooks family. ...More
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RCT EVALUATION OF CORE PROGRAM The local Fourth R Project has completed its five-year randomized control trial (RCT; 2004-2009) to determine whether the curriculum taught in Grade 9 Health classes would reduce physical dating violence relative to standard Health classes two and half years later. The research was recently published in the Archives of Paedriatrics and Adolescent Medicine. ...More
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CRITICAL MEDIA LITERACY This project was supported with the assistance of a grant from the Ontario Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat. Through this project, a CD resource with sample lesson plans that integrate Ontario’s curriculum from Kindergarten to Grade 12 has been developed . These lessons are easy for teachers to use and are designed to enhance the critical media literacy skills of students and to make sure our children and youth have critical skills in their consumption of media. ...More
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SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES FOR SAFE SCHOOLS The Sustainable Strategies for Safe Schools will conduct a province-wide (Ontario) consultation with 20 school communities to identify such barriers. In addition, a stages of change model is being evaluated as a framework to understand the progress of different schools in achieving sustainable violence prevention programming. ...More
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CULTURALLY ENHANCING VIOLENCE PREVENTION FOR ABORIGINAL YOUTH The Population Health Fund of the Public Health Agency of Canada has provided three years of funding (2005-2008) for a national project with partners in Ontario, B.C. and Manitoba to research and implement best practices in adapting violence prevention programs for Aboriginal youth. ...More
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