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- Title: Women Educating Each Other ... Women in Safe and Equal Relationships (Report)
- Author : Women in Welfare Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 215 KB
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Introduction Adolescence is a critical time for the development of attitudes and skills that underpin healthy relationships for young women. It is a time when many young women begin to form intimate relationships as well as being a time of increased risk of interpersonal violence. Responding to this, Liverpool Women's Health Centre, a non-government feminist women's health centre, developed and implemented a peer education program targeting young women in relation to healthy relationships and violence. The program became known as 'WEEO WISER', an acronym for 'Women Educating Each Other ... Women in Safe and Equal Relationships' (the name was developed by the project's Young Women's Advisory Group). This article reports on aspects of the project evaluation undertaken jointly by the Centre and the University of Sydney, notably the importance of partnerships and supporting peer educators. The overall objectives of the project were: