Disability Resources
Below are some resources created by SHFPACT and our friends.
Sexuality, Relationships and Your Rights
Sexuality, Relationships and Your Rights (SRAYR), is a picture-based, Easy English resource for teaching people about their rights and the law related to their body, health, relationships and sexuality.
Research shows that people with disability are at more risk of both being victims of sexual crimes and, often accidentally, perpetrators of crimes. From a sex positive and person-centered approach, this resource aims to empower individuals (and the people...
How to Talk to Your Preteen About Porn
A guide to planning and having conversations with your young person about online pornography, safety, consent, and healthy relationships.
Download How to Talk to Your Preteen About Porn
This resource was created with assistance from the ACT Government under the Sexual and Reproductive Health Services.
Digital Resources
Below are some digital resources created by SHFPACT and our friends.
Youth Emergency Contraception Resource
How to Talk to Your Preteen About Porn
Youth Consent Resources
Talking About Herpes
You're So Sexy
Including Intersex
Supporting Students Affirming Gender at...
Youth Emergency Contraception Resource
Emergency contraception is used after unprotected sex. You may decide to use emergency contraception if:
you didn't use any contraception
you had sex without a condom or the condom broke
you forgot to take your usual contraceptive pills
you were sexually assaulted
Your options as a young person in the ACT
This downloadable resource oulines information to you help with deciding about emergency contraception in an emergency. What they are, how they work, and where to get them in Canberra ACT.
What is emergency contraception?
Emergency...
Youth Consent Resource
Consent is important in every relationship, whether it’s a casual hook-up, long-term relationship or anything in between. It’s also important for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
Consent involves people working to understand and respect their own boundaries as well as respecting other people’s boundaries. According to ACT laws, affirmative consent means a person must take active steps to be sure that they have established that someone does want to engage in any sexual activity before starting to do so. Anyone can change their mind about...
You're So Sexy
You’re So Sexy is a sexual health comic designed to reach adults and young people who may have difficulty finding sexual health resources. This publication was created by Isabella Rotman in collaboration with Sexual Health & Family Planning ACT. It has been clinically reviewed and contains accurate local information about:
Communication and consent
Important sexual health checks
Contraception options
Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs) – prevention, testing and treatment
References, links to more information and also to specialist local...
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Sexual Health Information Brochures
Do you need some information about Sexual Health that you can trust?
SHFPACT has a large range of health information brochures covering STI’s, Contraception, Women's Health, Men's Health, Menopause and more.
Sexual Health Information Brochures
For urgent concerns where SHFPACT is unable to respond in the time required, please see your GP or the Walk-in Clinic at the Canberra Hospital, or call HealthDirect on 1800 022 222. For assistance in an emergency please call 000 or 112 (digital mobile phone) or 106 (TTY, text-based...
A new tool to help promote Social Safety.
SoSAFE! provides parents, carers, teachers, counsellors and other professionals with simple visual tools to enhance the training of social, socio-sexual and social safety skills. The explicit, rule-based format allows the learner to respond to situations, including intimate relationships, without having to make discretionary decisions, in response to their feelings or ‘early warning signs’.
Including Intersex
Including Intersex: responding to issues affecting the educational experiences of intersex students in Australia is a new resource filling a gap in information and guidance about the needs and experiences of intersex people specifically for the school and education setting.
It is estimated that intersex people account for up to 1.7% of the global population. Across all school levels and systems, this equates to around 1300 to 1400 intersex students in the school system at any given point in time (roughly 1 student in every 2-3 classrooms). This statistic means that...
Supporting Students Affirming Gender at School
The Good Practice Guide for 'Supporting students affirming gender at school' has been launched by the ACT Safe and Inclusive Schools Initiative. The Guide deals specifically with the ways school communities can be proactive in gender-inclusive practice, and support students who are transgender and gender diverse (TGD) when they decide they wish to share or express their gender identity at school.
Download the Good Practice Guide
The Guide has been written with school leaders specifically in mind. School leaders...