Mates and Dates - something we need to talk about
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Informative introduction on mates and dates with ACC logo
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Michael McCarthy – “Mates & Dates is a healthy relationships program for secondary school”
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ACC mates and dates booklet
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Michael McCarthy – “students who are Years 9 through to 13. It's really important to acknowledge”
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Michael McCarthy in an office setting
Text Box on screen: Michael McCarthy, Injury Prevention – Violence Portfolio Manager
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Michael McCarthy – “that it is not a sex education program, and that it is a strengths-based program that is giving skills for young people to negotiate their way through some pretty gnarly and difficult areas around things like consent,”
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Michael McCarthy – “ unhealthy relationships, but importantly from a strengths-based approach,”
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Michael McCarthy – “what does good look like? What's the role modeling that we would expect to see in our society and communities?”
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Michael McCarthy sitting in an office
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Michael McCarthy – “What are the positives that we want to take into our relationships into the future and that's the approach that is taking.”
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Student workbook on mates and dates with ACC logo
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Michael McCarthy – “So Mates & Dates to date has got to just over 37,000 students and into 134”
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Michael McCarthy – “schools and it is expanding over the next two and a half years where”
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Michael McCarthy sitting in an office
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Michael McCarthy – “we hope to get to around about 180,000 students get much more more wider coverage across past the country where it's not currently available.”
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Mates and dates scenario cards and informative images
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Michael McCarthy – “Who delivers this programme? The real delivery and the real work occurs of course out in our communities with our provider network and the amazing facilitators who do this work every day with young people”
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Michael McCarthy sitting in an office
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Michael McCarthy – “and we're really proud of the work they do on behalf of ACC but on behalf of our communities to really make a difference in this pretty sensitive and difficult topic. So from the evaluation, very positive feedback received from teachers about the program and about external facilitators coming into their classrooms and importantly what they
observed”
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Michael McCarthy – “was that the young people they felt were more open to asking the type of questions that they might not”
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Michael McCarthy – “ordinarily have asked with somebody they know perhaps better such as a classroom”
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Michael McCarthy sitting in an office
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Michael McCarthy – “teacher so it provided that opportunity for perhaps more open discussions.”
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Overlooking a booklet with ACC logo
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Michael McCarthy – “The material aligns well with the education curriculum and the guidelines around the”
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Michael McCarthy sitting in an office
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Michael McCarthy – “health area and we see the potential delivery channel through schools and/or either through a co-facilitation or other mechanisms with teacher delivery in the future,
we just have to build the structure and the base to get to a point that that is something we've trialed,”
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Pan of a year 9 booklet from outside and inside
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Michael McCarthy – “tested because we do have some good evidence at the moment that says the current delivery is working. Could it be better enhanced through teacher delivery or co-facilitation? Perhaps, but we have to test that.”
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Michael McCarthy – “The program is five sessions for approximately 50 minutes at each year level and available for five years so if a young person or a school picks up a program over a five year period, it is in fact twenty five sessions that builds on”
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Focus on power and control brainstorm and other informative booklet
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Michael McCarthy – “consistent themes at the right maturational level for the young people so that's an important aspect of the delivery. The people who are working with”
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Michael McCarthy sitting in an office
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Michael McCarthy – “young people; the most important aspect of this is the ability to relate to and engage with young people in a very sensitive area and coming into the”
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Pan across the mates and dates logo and other informative booklets
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Michael McCarthy – “classroom they are actually supported a by a classroom teacher who's present during the delivery and we believe that the training that they're given in order to”
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Michael McCarthy sitting in an office
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Michael McCarthy – “facilitate these types of sessions is appropriate for the content material and the fact that they are engaging
with the students, the schools, actually on an ongoing basis, and yes the delivery occurs over for example a five-week”
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Michael McCarthy – “period but in fact the the majority of our providers and the facilitators live and are in the communities that they are serving.”
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Focus on a booklet with ACC logo and Michael McCarthy sitting in an office
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Michael McCarthy – “Based on the results, Māori and Pasifika students across all the range of ethnicities indicated they were more”
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Young people conversing in the gym
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Michael McCarthy – “likely to change their behavior and their attitudes as a result of receipt of the programme.”
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Michael McCarthy sitting in an office
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Michael McCarthy – “It's important to note that there's no suggestion that a program this nature is going to be the silver bullet or the panacea for the pretty significant \
statistics that we see in this area and I'm not sure whether one thing is always going to work for every single person but the”
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Michael McCarthy – “intention behind it is to complement other things that are going on within any environment, for example with a school, to support other areas for example within the health curriculum.”
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Michael McCarthy sitting in an office
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Michael McCarthy – “Unfortunately the program was born out of some negative statistics, negative consequences that we see and we continue to see now but we know that
we need to shape things in a different way, we need to focus on primary prevention activities that are evidenced in order”
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Michael McCarthy – “to make a difference and see the future that we want. We know it would take some time to do that but that is the legacy that we”
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Michael McCarthy – “want to see through Mates & Dates because we want it to be about the”
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Michael McCarthy sitting in an office
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Michael McCarthy – “aspirations for our young people and "what does good look like in this country".”
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ACC logo appears with website address of mates and dates under it
www.matesanddates.co.nz