Love Bites
In 2025 the Rotary Club of Dapto has instigated a project to train three Rotarians to deliver Love Bites Programs to our local schools and youth groups. The project will also aim to help coordinate Love Bites facilitators in the Illawarra.
What is Love Bites?
Love Bites is a Respectful Relationships Education Program for young people aged 12-17 years. It consists of two programs. Junior (12-15 years) and Senior Love Bites (15-17 years). The program emphasises the importance of a whole-of-school commitment to respectful relationship education.
Love Bites aims to provide young people with a safe environment to examine, discuss and explore respectful relationships. All Love Bites programming takes a strength-based approach and views young people as active participants who are able to make choices for themselves and their relationships when supported with information and opportunity for skill development.
Love Bites education is focused on three critical areas for learning:
- Knowledge: youth-led collaborative learning
- Attitudes: critical thinking and decision-making and
- Behaviours: problem solving and communication skills
(Adapted from the Love Bites Website accessed 6 February 2025)
Find out more about the Love Bites programs