Leslie DeAthe This is Me

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1. 1. Gulf Islands Online - News

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   Published on: 6/28/2006   Last Visited: 6/29/2006

   "Teachers, parents, principals, school board administrators, local RCMP, community members and especially students all believe in the Respectful Relationships program on violence prevention that has been delivered in our local schools for the past six years," said Leslie DeAthe, who chairs the SWOVA board that initiated the locally created program.
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   Youth who have been through the local program say the material "should be offered to everyone in every school," reports DeAthe.
   
   The Respectful Relationships program has just finished its sixth year in School District 64. Substantial financial support from the governments of B.C. and Canada helped develop, refine and deliver the violence prevention program on Salt Spring, and in recent years to expand into several other communities around B.C. However, that funding expired at the end of this school year.
   
   The Canadian Women's Foundation (CWF) recently gave the program partial funding for the next three-years. "R+R was chosen to be linked with three other violence prevention programs coast to coast to work together toward a national policy of school-based violence prevention education, and we want to extend our sincere gratitude to the CWF for its generous funding of nearly half our local annual costs over the next three years," said DeAthe.