• Identify and clearly communicate emotions in themselves and others
• Identifying early warning signs
• Understand fear responses; fight, flight & freeze
• Assertive communication
• Private, personal, and public body parts
• The difference between secrets and surprises
• Their body belongs to them
• What are necessary touches/decisions; health, hygiene and safety
• Identifying five safe adults

• Creating strategies for the participation and empowerment of children
• Supporting community solutions and creating partnerships in prevention
• Understanding the complexity of childhood sexual abuse: myths, facts, indicators and risk factors

• Creating strategies for the participation and empowerment of children
• Supporting community solutions and creating partnerships in prevention
• Understanding the complexity of childhood sexual abuse: myths, facts, indicators and risk factors

• My family
• My body
• Body safety
• Foetal development and birth
• Bodies, sex, and gender
• Body safety
• Puberty basics
• Conception, foetal development and birth

The program can cover all or some of these topics as required:

• Informed, affirmative consent
• Respectful relationships
• Setting and respecting boundaries
• Power imbalances
• Blame, shame, and positive affirmation
• Gender stereotypes
• Green and red flags in personal relationships
• Bystanders and upstanders
• Taking, sharing, and altering nude images

• Consent
• Respectful relationships
• Friends, followers and predator grooming; Spotting red flags
• Nudes, porn and sexting
• Teens' legal rights and responsibilities
• Bystanders & upstanders: the risks and rewards of speaking up
• Power imbalances
• Sexual digital media literacy

• Respectful relationships
• Healthy boundaries in exploring and expressing sexuality
• Challenging misinformation about sex and relationships
• Responsible use of technology and social media
• The role of age and gender in power imbalances
• The law: children’s rights and responsibilities

• My family
• My body
• Body safety
• Foetal development and birth
• Puberty basics
• Periods and sperm production
• Emotions
• Safe adults
• Consent
• Conception, foetal development and birth
• Healthy online & offline relationships

• Sex and sexuality
• The law, and personal values
• Safer sex
• Contraception
• Sexually transmissible infections
• How to access sexual health services
• Respectful relationships
• Affirmative consent
• Negotiating, setting and respecting boundaries
• The law, sex, and digital media.

Creating a classroom that is safe and inclusive of: Cultural diversity, LGBTQIA+ students, students of LGBTQIA+ parents, children with a disability, children with a religion, children of all genders 

This professional development course meets the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST): 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.6, 3.5,
3.7, 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 6.2, 6.4, 7.1,
7.2 and 7.3

In this information session, parents and carers will hear about the topics their children will cover in the program, see the educational tools we use and can ask questions about contents and beneficial effects for their children.

• Personal identity
• Gender stereotypes
• LGBTQIA+ identities
• Gender equity
• Understanding different family structures
• Being an upstander / allyship

• Defining gender, sex, and sexuality
• Unpacking the LGBTQIA+ acronym
• The difference between gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality
• Using and respecting pronouns
• The link between misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia

Create a safer learning space and provide better support to the LGBTQIA+ members of your community.

• Defining gender, sex, and sexuality
• Unpacking the LGBTQIA+ acronym
• The difference between gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality
• Using and respecting pronouns
• The link between misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia

Be confident as an ally, understand the terminology, and empower yourself to create safer spaces for LGBTQIA+ people in your home and your community.

• Recharging our bodies (food, rest, recreation)
• Gender stereotypes
• Celebrating failures
• Our inner voices
• Messages from the online world
• Gratitude
• Help seeking

• Caretaking, maintenance and decorating of our bodies
• Recharging our bodies (food, sleep, and recreation)
• Challenging assumptions and media narratives about bodies
• Disrupting negative self-talk
• Increased self-esteem and self-confidence

• Understanding disordered eating
• Awareness of body needs
• Media literacy
• Self-esteem enhancement
• Responding to internal and external pressure
• Skills for children to navigate cognitive dissonance

• Modelling positive body image and healthy eating
• Managing body image messages from outside the family
• Gender stereotypes
• Celebrating failures
• Inner voices

A gender equity and inclusivity professional learning workshop for staff from early learning to Year 12.

Body Safety Australia’s Professional Development workshop is listed in the School Readiness Funding Menu by the Victorian State Government Department of Education and Training.

• Refresh on foundational underpinnings of Child Safe Standards
• Overview of broad 2022 changes within standards

This professional development course meets the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST): 1.3, 1.4, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 3.7, 4.4, 4.5, 6.2, 7.2, 7.3.

A ten unit course for children designed to be delivered by educators teaching from home or in the classroom, and parents and carers wanting to introduce their children to the fundamentals of puberty.

The principles of body safety play an essential role in developing safe and respectful spaces in and outside of the classroom. Hosted by CEO Deanne Carson, this 10-part series covers the following topics: 

• Creating strategies for the participation and empowerment of children
• Supporting community solutions and creating partnerships in prevention
• Understanding the complexity of childhood sexual abuse: myths, facts, indicators and risk factors