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The project will deliver an evidence based approach which provides interventions and support services for children and youth at risk exhibiting multiple risk factors, such as early aggressive, disruptive and impulsive behaviour, poor performance in school, and poor parental supervision.
The school-based intervention delivered by trained practitioners revolves around a manualized 16 week skill based teaching approach designed to enhance protective factors by helping to increase participants' cognitive capacity and anger management abilities. This learning counters the negative consequences of antisocial behaviour, as well as the early onset of aggressive behaviour.
The program introduces children to alternatives to the use of violence, aggressive behaviour, self harm and internal anger. Parents increase their ability to maintain routines in their home, monitor their child's activities, manage disruptive behaviour from their children, and provide a more stable, supportive home environment to counter the factors that lead to children's criminal behaviour.
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