Who has regular conversations about consent with the young people you know? And who should? Recent legislative changes have clarified affirmative consent, requiring young people to say or do something to explicitly check for ongoing agreement. Unfortunately, not all young people are well-prepared to navigate how ongoing agreement, communication, and safety work in healthy relationships. For young people involved in out-of-home care or youth justice, barriers such as disrupted relationships and frequent changes to placements and schools can often leave young people with no consistent safe adult to discuss navigating safe relationship boundaries and consent, and they need our unpressured support and guidance. 

In this timely virtual workshop, we will explore the impacts that experiences of trauma may have on how young people navigate issues of consent in their relationships, the elements and recent legal definitions of affirmative sexual consent, and what this means for young people in their relationships, both in person and online. We will make space to consider tools and needs to develop practical strategies for supporting young people to talk about these important relationship and consent issues at their pace. 

About the facilitator: 
Belinda, our Senior Manager of Practice Leadership and Development, is passionate about self-advocacy, rights-based practice and trauma-informed interventions. Belinda is a social worker with over 20 years' experience working in trauma, out-of-home care, and youth justice. Belinda has worked extensively with children and young people who are victims/survivors of sexual violence and their families in therapeutic and court support roles. 

Please note: all course and workshop times are displayed in Sydney/Melbourne/Canberra time zones. Please ensure you convert the time to your current time zone. All workshop payments must be made by credit card. Invoicing is only available for group bookings of 5 or more for the same workshop date. Contact us through cetc@childhood.org.au for group bookings. 

For anyone caring or working with children and young people who have experienced trauma, with a focus on out-of-home care and youth justice.