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非常普遍，并与许多负面的健康和社会后果有关。我们在乌干达测试了一项干预措施，称为“好学校工具包”，它有效地减少了学校工作人员对乌干达小学生的身体暴力。该工具包由乌干达非政府组织“发声”（Raising Voices）推出，是一项复杂的干预措施，采用整个学校的方式来支持学生、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；促进学生的参与和领导能力；培养对权力关系和暴力的批判性反思；为员工提供替代体罚和改进教学技术的方法。我们想调整这个工具包，看看它是否能减少针对中学生的暴力行为。为此，我们将研究中学的暴力模式，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该工具包，并将添加新材料。例如，我们可能需要增加更多关于性暴力的内容，这可能在中学生中比在小学生中更常见。我们会测试我们的新干预措施，看看中学生是否能接受。

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.