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Responding Positively To Sexual Behaviours: The Traffic Lights Model
This DVD provides a guide for professionals to IDENTIFY, ASSESS and RESPOND to sexual behaviours that may cause concern in school settings. It uses a case study, based on real life scenarios about young people with a disability, to model staff and carer responses to sexual behaviours that may cause concern.
Family Planning Queensland (FPQ) receives many requests – from staff in special education settings and from parents/carers – for support with responding to sexual behaviours from students and young people. Students and young people across Queensland are at risk of being disciplined, suspended and expelled because of incidents and issues involving sexual behaviours. Sexuality education and responses to sexual behaviours will only be successful if they are consistent and systematic.This year FPQ is making available for sale a resource package with materials supporting professionals, parents and carers when they are responding to sexual behaviours.
The package includes:
- an educational DVD called Responding positively to sexual behaviours: the Traffic Lights Model
- the Sexual Behaviours in Children and Adolescents fact sheet
- a CD with supporting materials and resources which can be reproduced in multiple copies with a standard A4 printer or photocopier.
The package is based on the 2005 Training Project conducted by FPQ called Professional Development: Responding to Sexualised Behaviours in the special needs context. This training program supported education staff to distinguish between healthy behaviours and behaviours that may cause concern using a traffic lights concept outlining green, orange and red behaviours. The training then assisted staff to identify strategies to address green, orange and red behaviours in school settings. The FPQ resource package on responding to sexual behaviours can be used in a variety of ways and settings:
- in educational and non-educational settings
- as a tool for staff to use in their own in-service training with other colleagues
- as a supplementary training and behaviour management tool for professionals who have attended FPQ training
- a resource to support and increase the knowledge of those who are geographically isolated and/or unable to attend a training program
- on its own
It is not suitable for viewing by children.
Funded with assistance by Non School Organisations (NSO), Commonwealth Special Education