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Consent and Relationships Education (CaRE)

SASS

The Consent and Relationships Education (CaRE) program provides explicit opportunities for developmentally appropriate learning about consent in the context of intimate relationships, support services, power, expectations and stereotypes, and how to seek help when feeling unsafe.

  • Tas

Pricing: Free, Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: DECYP Tasmania subsidised

Product type: Program; Whole school approach or initiative

Contact details

SASS
ABN: 35 028 122 232

https://www.sass.org.au/education-and-training/education-in-schools

training@sass.org.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Respectful relationships and consent education

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1)

Context: School or centre-based

Main beneficiaries: Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

The CaRE program is run over three separate sessions and supports schools to address the issue of sexual harm and violence by educating young people on the key concepts of:

  • Consent, including according to Tasmanian law, age of consent in Tasmania
  • Power dynamics and drivers of sexual harm and violence
  • Awareness and challenging of gender/sexual stereotypes
  • Ethical bystanding
  • Felt safety, help-seeking with in their communities and networks
  • Rights and responsibilities in peer relationships

The program is designed to be interactive, participatory and life changing.

This program has funded opportunities in Tasmania, funded under DECYP, but is also offered as a fee for service. Price depends on number of classes and area.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor

Evidence

This program has been developed in collaboration with young people, victim-survivors, therapeutic specialists, educators, and researchers in the field of child sexual abuse to align with Health and Physical Education within the Australian Curriculum v9.0.