Growing Healthy Sexual Expression in Children and Youth - 3 Hour Workshop

Who is the Workshop For?

Teachers, caregivers, disability workers, social workers, youth workers, case workers, support workers, professionals and practitioners who support, teach or care for children and young people.

Key Content

• Understanding sexual expression within a developmental context.
• Understanding the difference between normal/healthy and abnormal/unhealthy sexual expression, across different developmental ages.
• The core developmental, contextual and other factors that lead to children and young people presenting with unhealthy sexual expression.
• An overview of 'under the surface' factors that drive healthy versus unhealthy sexual expression.
• Best practice and intentionally delivered strategies to foster and grow healthy sexual expression and identity, across different developmental periods (including balancing risk and supporting growth).

Facilitators

The session will be delivered by two LBI Foundation presenters with significant experience in supporting children and young people with complex needs.

• Dr Ivan Raymond (Clinical Psychologist)
• TBA

Delivery

The session will be delivered by Zoom, which is an online web-based platform that can be accessed by smart phone, tablet and computer. All participants who register will receive an email 24 hours before the session with the Zoom code.

Self-Care

LBI Foundation will deliver the workshop in a sensitive manner, however, there will be direct and ongoing reference to sexuality and its expression (using descriptive terms). Descriptive terms are applied because the understanding and growth of healthy sexuality in children and young people must not be founded upon judgements. The use of descriptive language has the potential to bring up a range of feelings in some participants. Participants can engage with the workshop to the depth of their choosing.

Workshop Cost

• Free - Personnel associated with member agencies. Please register through Eventbrite.
• $75.00 - For non-member agency personnel.
• $45.00 - For non-member agency personnel where 4+ tickets are purchased. Please email info@lbi.org.au for this ticket option.

Additional Information

This workshop is a Specialist Application Module of the broader IMPACT Program. Participants completing the workshop will be invited to complete an online accreditation process and receive a certificate linked to their LBI learning record.

For additional information on the events and training conducted by LBI Foundation, click here.

This workshop can also be delivered in-house (to an agency, program site or school) by LBI Foundation.