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- Romantic relationships
- Sexual diversity
Puberty
Boy puberty: How to talk about puberty and sex with your tween boy
Topics: puberty
Non-fiction
For parents/carers of 9 to 13 year olds to help them talk to their sons about puberty and sex. Tells you what topics to cover and gives ideas on how to start conversations.
Age: Parents and teachers of children 9 to 13 years.
FPNSW: Family Planning NSW
Provides reproductive and sexual health services throughout NSW. Includes a section for teachers.
FPV: Family Planning Victoria
Provides reproductive and sexual health services throughout Victoria. Includes a section on school programs.
Get the Facts - Laugh and Learn Videos
Check out the Get the Facts 'Laugh and Learn' series of videos on the Get the Facts website. Designed to make young people laugh ... while they learn about puberty, condoms, BBVs and keeping safe.
Girl puberty: How to talk about puberty and sex with your tween girl
Topics: puberty
Non-fiction
For parents/carers of 9 to 13 year olds to help them talk to their daughters about puberty and sex. Explains what topics to cover and how to start conversations.
Age: Parents and teachers of children 9 to 13 years.
Girls & boys and puberty - FREE
A WA Department of Health booklet for both girls and boys addressing the changes that happen during puberty and how to look after yourself during this time. 'Girls and puberty' can be found on one side and then the booklet can be flipped over to read 'Boys and puberty'. Aimed at ages 10-13+.
Girls like that and other plays
Topics: sexting, LGBTI, sexual diversity, families, transgender, gender diversity.
Fiction
Girls Like That explores the pressures caused by technology when a schoolgirls naked photograph goes viral. Legend High School's version of the play (external link) 1hr 51min
Banana Boys is about the challenge of being on the school football team and being secretly gay.
Holloway Jones is a about with growing up with a parent in prison.
Pronoun is about two childhood sweethearts dealing with the fact that one of them, Isabella, has come out as transgender.
Ages: 13+
How to talk to kids about bodies
Topics: bodies, reproductive organs.
Non-fiction
A 38 page guide for parents showing them how to have shame-free conversations with their child about their genitals.
Age: Parents and teachers of children 0 to 12 years.
Let's talk about sex
Topics: sex education
Non-fiction
Biological and psychological information about sex: from puberty and conception to birth control and STIs, including sections on the body, families and babies, and sexual health. New edition includes expanded information on internet, texting safety, contraception and LGBT.
Age: Parents and teachers of pre-teens and teens.
Let's talk about the birds and the bees
Topics: puberty, protective behaviours, reproduction.
Non-fiction
Cartoon illustrated book for parents to read to children about differences between male and female reproductive systems, private body parts, sexual intercourse, love, puberty, what touching is ok/not ok, families. Simple facts as a starting point for conversations.
Book review by Cath Hak 6min (external link)
Age: Parents and teachers of 4 to 11 year olds.
Let's talk about where babies come from
Topics: sex education, conception, reproduction, families, bodies.
Non-fiction
Comics and cartoons outlining: similarities and differences between girls and boys, growing up, reproductive organs, how babies are made, what sex is, what is love, same sex attraction, conception, pregnancy, different types of birth, genetics (e.g. hair colour), different kinds of families, keeping safe (consensual touch), HIV (but not other STI/BBVs). A book that parents/teachers can read to younger children, or older children can read themselves.
Book review by Cath Hak 4min 36sec.
Age: 7 to 11 years.
Puberty kits
Students investigate body care products required when reaching puberty. They develop an understanding of why they are used, how they should be used and how advertising can influence our purchases.
Relationships, sex and other stuff - FREE
A WA Department of Health booklet for teenagers addressing friends and relationships, sex and pregnancy.
Secret boys' business (2nd Ed.)
Topics: puberty
Non-fiction
A puberty resource for boys, families, schools and community groups to explain the physical and emotional changes of puberty.
Age: 9 to 13 years.
Secret girls' business
Topics: puberty, menstruation.
Non-fiction
Uses simple text and colour illustrations to explain how to manage periods. It includes notes for parents, teachers and carers.
Age: 8+
Sex education: Sex Ed Rescue
Cath Hakanson is a sex educator that helps parents to get the knowledge, skills and confidence to have conversations with their children about sex and relationships. This site offers videos, resources, books reviews, and a free 5 day sex ed bootcamp.
Sexual health: Sexual Health Quarters (SHQ)
SHQ provides a comprehensive range of clinical, counselling, educational and training activities around sexual and reproductive health. Services include: STI testing, unplanned pregnancy counselling, contraception counselling, professional development, education sessions. SHQ can partner with your school to deliver RSE sessions on: respectful relationships, diversity in sex, gender and sexual orientation, bodies and reproductive systems, safer sex and STIs, contraception, unintended pregnancy, sexting and porn, and more.
Sexual Health: WA Department of Health - Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Program
Provides sexual health information and resources for the community, health professionals and educators.
Sexual Health: YACWA - YEP Crew (Youth Educating Peers)
The Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia's (YACWA) YEP Crew support and educate young people in relationships, sexual health and blood-borne virus issues. They run a variety of interactive workshops for young people that run from 45 min to 1.5 hours and are led by peer educators. Topics include: respectful relationships and consent; STIs and BBVs; contraception; gender and sexuality; the technosexual world; sex and the law.
SHFPACT: Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT
Provides reproductive and sexual health services throughout the ACT. Includes schools education programs, training and workshops.