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Let’s Talk: Pornography, consent and young people’s sexual development in out-of-home care

Responding to children and young people living in out-of-home care who engage in harmful sexual behaviour – Practice guide

A practice guide to support carers and professionals working in and around the out-of-home care system to respond to children and young people

Working with young people with harmful sexual behaviours – Research brief

This research briefing provides an overview of the current literature reporting on young people who engage in harmful sexual behaviours and aims to provide key take-away messages for professionals.

Q&A with the trainer: Harmful sexual behaviour

Working with young people who engage in harmful sexual behaviour is complex and challenging. Cyra Fernandes and Dan Howell have spent over a 1000 hours in the past year helping carers and professionals working in out-of-home care better respond to young people who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviours.

“If you don’t feed the staff, they’ll eat the kids” Kevin Creeden on self-care and harmful sexual behaviours

Kevin Creeden, Director of Assessment and Research at Whitney Academy Massachusetts and a speaker at the 2022 International Child Trauma Conference said in recent training, “If you don’t feed the staff, they will eat the kids:”

The S-Word: Exploring sexual behaviour displayed by young people, what is normal, and what is harmful