Community Safety and Security Courseware
Objective
The Community Safety and Security courseware is intended to improve students' knowledge of issues relating to safety and security. This is done with a view to: (a) strengthen support for local community partnership, (b) improve the life chances of young people, and (c) prevent the likelihood of at-risk youth involvement in gang violence.
Courseware Description
The Community Safety and Security Courseware is comprised of individual lessons, games, interactive resources, personalized student help desks, chat room facilities, real time online grade books as well as graded end-of module tests.
The courseware is comprised of seven modules covering the following key issues:
- Safety
- Roles and Functions of the Police
- Community Policing
- Child Care and Protection
- Important Do's and Don'ts
- Youth Development Programmes
- Gang Prevention
USAID Support
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Community Empowerment and Transformation (COMET) project contracted GoGSAT to develop this exciting courseware. During 2008-2009, a total of 3900 inner city students will benefit directly from this programme. Additionally, all students registered on the GoGSAT system have access to this courseware.
During the duration of the programme, the sponsored students will be able to use the course resources. Additionally, they will be able to speak live with a police officer via the system's chat room. These live sessions will be scheduled at specific times, and will be opened to all students. In addition, students will be able to leave questions on their personalized help desks. These questions will be answered by a police officer within a 24-hour period.
Prior to starting the course, students are required to participate in a pre-test (which may be taken only once). This will be graded automatically and the scores sent to the student's grade book. Furthermore, at the end of the course, students will be required to participate in a post-test. The scores on the pre and post-tests will be statistically analyzed to determine whether students benefited significantly from the programme.