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Respect, Rights and Consent.

There is a need for both simple resources and Easy English resources on Sexual health. Information to help with:

Decision-making and choices
To support safety
Find safe ways to have conversations
For learning
And for responding to disclosure.

IDEAS have located resources to support you. These include

Documents
Posters
Videos
Technology app’s
Communication boards and
Image rich explainers.

Our Site

Our site is a website for women and girls 15+ living with disability. Women with disability have a right to have relationships and children and make decisions about their sexual health. The website is a valuable information tool, and the toolbar at the top allows the selection of Easy Read. Access the full selection of Easy read resources.

Our Site resources and information fall into the following categories:

Women with Disability Australia (Managers of Our Site) have these resources

SCOPE – speak up and be safe

A communication toolkit with the following sections

Communication Aids Has Download and print communication aids. Bodyboards.
Decision-Making Resources A video and planning tools. With prevention strategies and plans and fact sheets on where to get help.
Online Learning – For professionals who work with people with complex communication needs.
Teaching vocabulary Teaching tools, communication boards, posters, videos. To communicate about abuse, neglect and body autonomy by referring to relevant pictures.
I need help now Emergency Contacts.

Having the Conversation Sexual Violence Prevention is a plan to stop sexual violence. Produced by Scope and the Queensland Government.

eSafety commission

Easy Read Image-based abuse

Easy Read Abuse through Technology

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SoSafe

These are a set of video and conceptual tools and training to enhance

Social
Social-sexual and
Social safety training

Of people with moderate through to severe intellectual disability.

Sunny App

1800 Respect have a free app for women with disability. Named Sunny App, it can support you if you have experienced violence or abuse. It is available from the Apple Store or Google Play Store. It supports screen readers and has accessibility features like text sizing.

Family Planning NSW

Family Planning NSW provides education and training for disability workers, family members, and carers.

Innovative easy to read resources to support their educational activities. With a large Disability Resource Collection available.

Specific resources on

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Relationships and Private Stuff

Supporting people to develop social and friendship skills; as well as relationships and sexuality knowledge and awareness.

An NDIS provider (Elizabeth Dore, registration number 1205 4367) who offers counselling and education for individuals, couples or small groups who want to:

Develop positive relationships
Improve communication skills
Build confidence in dating
Increase their self-esteem
Express their sexuality appropriately and positively
Learn about sex and safety
Discuss separation and grief

Using a combination of narrative, strength-based, cognitive behaviour and solution-focused therapies.

Family Planning Victoria

Sexual health and reproductive health in Plain English. Also, an illustration series using pictures to explain ideas.

Services that Family Planning Victoria Provide include courses supporting people with cognitive disability.

Factsheets

“About Making Rights a Reality”

A program at the South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault and Family Violence. Help to adults and children with a disability who have experienced sexual assault or family violence. The program aims to make sure people with disabilities have equal access to

Counselling
The criminal justice system
And the Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal

And is available across all SECASA sites.

Topics covered in Easy Read Booklets

A program, Sexual Lives and Respectful Relationships, for people with intellectual disability. The focus is on

Sexuality
Relationship rights
Sexual health
Violence
Abuse prevention.

The program operates at various sites in Victoria and Sydney currently.

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WWild

For people with intellectual disability aged 14 and over. Free counselling, case management support and therapeutic groups are available. WWild service Queensland. These services are available to people at risk or people who have been victims of crime or abuse.

Includes resources like

You deserve to be safe - a simple English booklet about Sexual Assault.
You deserve to be safe- a simple English booklet about Domestic and Family Violence.
What is counselling?

Women’s Community Health Network WA

Women’s Community Health Network WA produced a booklet linked at “what is family and domestic violence”.

Mallee Family Care Community Legal Centre

Videos for teens and factsheet and postcards to support the videos. Accompanying Resource links and downloads are on the Right-Hand Side Panel.

True

Looking After Me

These are relationship and sexuality education packages for individuals with disability. NDIS funded education services partly or wholly self-managed NDIS participants. (Not available to NDIA Managed participants.)

Contact True Education and Community Services: (07) 3250 0240 for further information.