About the project – STOP
STOP is a new school-based intervention designed to prevent dating and relationship violence (DRV) and gender-based violence (GBV). It will draw on two well established approaches. The first, Shifting Boundaries, is a US developed intervention with classroom and structural elements which has been shown to tackle DRV and GBV. The second, Learning Together, is an anti-bullying intervention which has made use of student-staff action groups to develop a school-wide approach.
The primary aim of this project is to test if the intervention is feasible and could progress to a larger scale impact evaluation, which would seek to measure the impact of the intervention on DRV and GBV victimisation and perpetration.
The project will be led by Professor G J Melendez Torres with the Sex Education Forum as the delivery partner. The project is being co-funded by Bridges Impact Foundation.
About the round – The Lab: Ending Youth Violence
The Lab: Ending Youth Violence is a venture between Stuart Roden, the Youth Endowment Fund and the Behavioural Insights Team. The Lab focuses on identifying promising projects, which seek to address youth violence, and funds the development and delivery of those projects to get them ready for robust evaluations.