TravellersTM was developed, piloted and evaluated under contract for the Ministry of Health by Skylight - a New Zealand based national not-for-profit organisation that supports children, young people and their families through change, loss and grief - in partnership with the University of Auckland's Injury Prevention Research Centre.
The programme is now in its tenth year, after three years of trialling, evaluation and a further two years of wider implementation in Auckland and Northland schools. The programme is currently being rolled out to secondary schools throughout New Zealand.
Newsletters:
Newsletters are a great way to keep up to date with what is happening in Travellers, or get familiar with the history of the programme.
National Results of our 2009 Travellers Questionnaire:
- A total of 12420 questionnaires were completed.
- 5.7% of students said that they did not feel good about themselves most of the time.
- Of the schools that returned Travellers group participation data, approximately 6.4% of their Year 9 students underwent the programme.
- The most common life experiences were moving house (47.3%), death of someone close (44.6%), illness of someone close (40.8%) and moving schools (39.6%).
- 16.92% of Females who took the survey rated as high vulnerability, compared to 11.87% of males.
These results are fairly consistent to what was found in the 2008 Data.
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