Adaptation of the Good School Toolkit for reducing violence in secondary schools

针对儿童和青少年的暴力行为十分普遍，并与许多负面的健康和社会后果有关。我们一直在乌干达测试的一种名为好学校工具包的干预措施，在减少从学校工作人员到乌干达小学生的身体暴力方面是有效的。该工具包由乌干达非政府组织Rading Voices提供，是一种复杂的干预措施，采取全校方式支持学生、教职员工、行政部门和社区成员。干预措施包括一系列步骤，旨在：改变学校文化，鼓励相互尊重；促进学生参与和领导；促进对权力关系和暴力的批判性反思；为工作人员提供体罚和改进教学方法的替代方案。我们希望调整工具包，看看它是否可以减少针对中学生的暴力行为。为此，我们将研究中学暴力的模式，看看它们与小学观察到的模式有何不同。我们将与主要合作伙伴一起决定如何最好地调整工具包，并将添加新的材料。例如，我们可能需要增加更多关于性暴力的内容，这在中学生中可能比在小学生中更常见。我们将测试我们新的适应干预措施，看看它是否可以被中学生接受。

Violence against children and adolescents is highly prevalent and associated with numerous negative health and social consequences. An intervention we have been testing in Uganda, called the Good School Toolkit, is effective in reducing physical violence from school staff to Ugandan primary school students. The Toolkit, by Ugandan NGO Raising Voices, is a complex intervention that takes a whole-school approach to support students, staff, administration and community members. The intervention consists of a series of steps designed to: change school culture to encourage mutual respect; facilitate student participation and leadership; foster critical reflection on power relations and violence; and provide staff with alternatives to corporal punishment and improved teaching techniques.We want to adapt the Toolkit to see if it can reduce violence against secondary school students. To do this, we will examine patterns of violence in secondary schools to see how they differ from patterns observed in primary schools. In conjunction with key partners, we will decide how best to adapt the Toolkit, and new materials will be added. For example, we may need to add more content on sexual violence, which may be more common in secondary school students versus primary school students. We will test our new adapted intervention to see if it is acceptable to secondary school students.