Be Wise Presentations

We can present in a shorter time frame if needed, but we recommend allowing 60 minutes if possible. This ensures adequate time for such an important message to be conveyed, understood, and processed by the audience. We will need a minimum of 45 minutes.

Our two presentations are suitable for secondary students, Year 7 – 12 students. An age-appropriate version of the Violence in Never OK presentation has been developed for Grade 5 and 6. See more on our primary school program.

Let us know the number of attendees that will be coming, and we’ll let you know how we can make it work.

We’ve presented to groups in classrooms, libraries, theatres, shared spaces, and clubrooms. Whatever space you have, if it is adequate to hold the number of attendees you’re expecting, we can present there. We recommend students are seated as opposed to sitting on a floor.

The presentations include video, so we need to have an AV set up so everyone there can see and hear well. Please let us know if you don’t have suitable AV equipment and we can arrange to bring our own.

Yes, we have a Violence Prevention eLearning program for secondary schools. The five lessons have been carefully developed in collaboration with the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, teachers, psychologists, researchers, students, and parents. You can find more information about our eLearning here.

Yes — an incredibly valuable part of our program is a short pre-presentation student survey. It is anonymous and only takes two minutes to complete. We couple this with a post-presentation survey to measure success outcomes.

Not only do these surveys help students reflect on their learnings, they also help us with our critical work in researching the impact of violence prevention education.

You will receive our Presentation Resource for Teachers when you make a booking, to help schools make the most of our visit, and support teachers when discussing social violence and anger with their students.

You can request a particular presenter and we will do our best to meet that request. All our presenters are fully qualified and bring their own unique experience to their sessions.

Our presenter will call your main contact in the week before the presentation, to discuss any specifics for your school.

YES, absolutely – violence impacts everyone directly and indirectly, so we can all be involved in the solution.

Thanks to donations from our generous partners and supporters, money raised from fundraising activities, and government support, we fund* the first presentation per calendar year for all Victorian schools.

We aim to offer one fully funded session at each school annually to ensure our resources are spread evenly across as many audiences as possible. Additional and follow-up presentations cost $850 plus GST.

*But be quick! Fully funded sessions fill up quickly and are offered subject to funding being available.

Most schools embed one fully funded presentation into their annual wellbeing incursions, then continue with the Be Wise Education Program — talk with our Education Development Manager for more information.

Yes! We aim to offer one fully funded session at each school, and can deliver additional presentations at our standard cost of $850 plus GST. But be quick! Fully funded sessions fill up quickly and are offered subject to funding being available.

We have developed an age-appropriate version of our signature “Violence is Never OK” presentation. See more on our Primary School Program.

Yes, all our presenters have a current WWCC.

Our presentations are appropriate for all genders. We present to many single gender schools. The presentations are the same for all genders, as the message is to stop and think about the consequences of your actions. Our presenters are excellent at reading the emotions of young people and responding to the different issues as they emerge throughout the presentation.

Our presentations are annually reviewed and refined, but deliver the same content themes and learning outcomes each year.

Some schools like to book the same Year Level in for a presentation each year, so that each cohort can benefit as they move through their secondary school years.

For example, you may choose to book the Violence is Never OK presentation for your school’s Year 10 students every year, and the Rethinking Anger presentation for your Year 11 students every year.

Other schools prefer to book both presentations for the one Year Level as part of their wellbeing approach for the chosen cohort.

The Pat Cronin Foundation is dedicated to empowering young people to never use violence. The presentations reinforce the message of empowering people to make wise choices in all situations involving social violence.

We can discuss this at the time of booking and will suggest the best approach. We always encourage the audience to think about their own experience and to apply our messages to previous events, and more importantly future events.

We are unable to provide individual schools with their survey responses, as we do not collect identifiable data. We will aggregate our data across all the schools we visit, by year level, and report each term and build to the end of the whole year. We do this to ensure that no schools can be compared or labelled.

Yes. Our presentations integrate into the F-10 Capabilities Curriculum and our content links clearly to the Respectful Relationships Curriculum. Schools that are implementing a School Wide Positive Behaviour Support Framework (SWPBS) will also find strong connections to draw upon. See Victorian Curriculum links here, and the Australian Curriculum links here.