Dates for the 2016 Ride for Unity have now been set in place. The ride will commence from Karratha on Saturday August 27th, concluding in Newman on Saturday September 3rd. This years ride sees a change in route, and surface, with approx 300km’s on sealed road and a further 350km’s...
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RIDE FOR UNITY 2016
Karratha – Roebourne – Tom Price – Parraburdoo – Newman via Chichester Ranges and Karinjini National Park. 300km’s sealed road, 350km’s unsealed road. Open to all interested parties. Corporate Entries $7,000: includes branding on apparel and promotional collateral (additional branding included), 2 riders. All corporate entries will also commit...
NWSJV Sydney Scholarship Trip
On Monday the 2nd of November, four budding performing and creative arts students from Roebourne District High school left Roebourne to embark on a 6 day adventure exploring the arts in Sydney. The long distance travel (and the rain!) was exhausting but an incredible week of amazing experiences was had...
Risk & Protective Factors in Youth Violence
Risk Factors for the Perpetration of Youth Violence Research on youth violence has increased our understanding of factors that make some populations more vulnerable to victimization and perpetration. Risk factors increase the likelihood that a young person will become violent. However, risk factors are not direct causes of youth violence;...
UNDERSTANDING BULLYING
Bullying is a form of youth violence. CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC) defines bullying as any unwanted aggressive behavior(s) by another youth or group of youths who are not siblings or current dating partners that involves an observed or perceived power imbalance and is repeated multiple times or is highly...
Science of Violent Behaviour
Science of Violent Behaviour Recent discoveries have been made about the inevitable workings of the brain in the fields of social psychology, neurology, and epidemiology that have shed some light on how violent behaviours are formed What does science tell us about the causes of violent behaviour? Most behaviours –...
IF Foundation – Visual Arts
The IF Foundation Visual Arts program works to follow the Framework Learning Statement for the Arts curriculum as well as the Western Australia Curriculum and Standards. This includes formulating projects that will work toward the Framework for the Arts Learning Outcomes including: Students generate arts works that communicate ideas. Students...
Science of Violence Prevention
The latest “WHO Bulletin” features an interview on the science of violence prevention. Twenty years after Rodrigo Guerrero-Velasco (mayor of Cali, Colombia from 1992-1994, and again from 2011 to the present) treated violence like a disease, using epidemiology to find the causes and then intervening to address them, his approach...