The free workshop focusses on empowering carers who work with people who have a disability, and providing them with practical skills and evidence-based knowledge to support sexual safety, identify harmful sexual behaviours and to respond to these behaviours in a trauma-informed ‘best practice’ manner.
This free 6-hour professional development workshop in Devonport is open to anyone who works in the disability sector, but particularly targeted to those new to the sector.
Topics include:
• SASS overview and referral pathways
• Sexual harm awareness raising
• Consent and Tasmanian Law
• Neurological impact of trauma
• Socio-cultural drivers of sexual harm
• Sexuality in the disability space
• How to talk about sex and sexual topics with clients/patients
• Resources for teaching clients about healthy relationships
• Identifying problem sexual behaviours
• Responding to problem sexual behaviours
• Responding to disclosures of sexual harm
Learning outcomes:
• Improved knowledge of support services
• Understanding of trauma informed practice principles
• Knowledge of sex positive values relative to service delivery
• Understanding of theories relative to exploring sexual topics with clients
• Knowledge of core principles of healthy relationships
• Information on how to improve client understanding of healthy relationships
• Understanding of the potential negative and positive outcomes associated with pornography consumption, and alternatives to use
• Knowledge of problem sexual behaviours and enhanced capacity to respond
• Improved capacity to respond to disclosures of sexual harm