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About Constable Care Foundation
Providing safety education for children and young people throughout Western Australia.
Who we are
Constable Care Foundation is Western Australia’s leading safety education provider.
For more than 32 years, Constable Care Foundation has been keeping children and young people safe through creative harm-prevention programs using theatre, technology, film and art.
Constable Care Foundation is an evidence-based organisation that doesn’t just work with tens of thousands of children and young people, but is committed to demonstrating that our work makes a difference to the lives of the young people who take part.
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Who we are
Creating a better WA community for all children and young people via harm prevention education, creative solutions, and raising community awareness.
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Our purpose
To empower young people through theatre-in-education programs and community services that raise awareness, influence attitudes and change behaviours.
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Our values
Empathy, integrity, communication and creativity are aspects within everything we do.
Our approach
Constable Care Foundation uses a best-practice theatre-in-education approach to ensure real-world changes result for the students who take part in our programs.
Utilising the internationally-researched Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre, participative approaches, we empower students to identify practical solutions to issues they face through performance scenarios that they use to explore and trial responses, strategies and solutions.
Over 40 years of worldwide research and evaluation into this best-practice approach demonstrates that students experience real behaviour change as a result of being engaged in this program.
Our impact
Constable Care Foundation is an evidence-based organisation that doesn’t just work with tens of thousands of children and young people, but it is committed to demonstrating that our work makes a difference to the lives of the young people who take part.
In 2011 we entered into a formal partnership with Edith Cowan University Child Health Promotion Research Centre to build robust evaluation processes into our school-based programs.
Since 2012, Constable Care Foundation has routinely measured the changes in knowledge, attitude and behavioural intent that occur for students who take part in our performances, workshops and most recently our full-term intensive programs.
Our results
Student knowledge on crime prevention and safety performance topics improves across primary and secondary schools.
In recent evaluations conducted with 1,467 upper primary students from 15 different WA schools on a range of different crime prevention and safety performance topics, it was found that students improved their knowledge of the topic by 8% on average, their attitude towards the issue by 13%, and their stated intent to behave by 5%.
In evaluations of performance workshops undertaken with secondary school students, knowledge improved by 6% on average, attitude by 8% and intent to behave by 7%. For Youth Choices, full-term 10-week intensive programs operating since mid-2014, early evaluation from ECU studies indicate that significant attitudinal and behavioural improvements were achieved for students taking part.
A vibrant history
Throughout our 32 year history the Foundation has effectively communicated safety and crime prevention concepts through performance-based education to millions of WA children.
But we’re not sitting on our laurels. Like most successful organisations the Foundation continue to evolve and meet the challenges and needs of young people today through a range of new products and services.
Our partners
We’d like to thank all our amazing sponsors for their contribution towards the Foundation’s safety and education programs. This continuing generosity helps to keep children and young people safe and supports their relevant and ever-changing safety needs.
