Monday, November 11, 2024

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Meeting Room 1B

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Victoria’s affirmative consent bill was announced in August 2022, and effective from July 2023. As part of this, the Victorian Government rolled out the Supporting Young People to Understand Affirmative Consent Program. Sexual Health Victoria (SHV) was one of the recipients to share in this $3.5 million grant along with partner organisation Women’s Health in the Southeast (WHISE). SHV’s Consent Matters took a preventative approach to sexual violence by enhancing youth and community worker’s capacity to provide at-risk young people with information, support and resources needed to understand and engage in healthy, consensual sex and relationships. SHV engaged with organisations in Melbourne’s southeast who worked with youth via network meetings, to gain an understanding of gaps in consent knowledge. SHV then conducted consultation workshops with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and LGBTQI+ youth. These youth groups provided feedback on proposed workshop content. Once the course content was written, taking youth and professional consultation feedback into account, three pilot workshops of more than 100 workers were held across metro and rural Victoria. The original Consent Matters workshop consists of pre-learning online modules, and a full day in person workshop. Should this abstract submission be successful, key messages from the Consent Matters project will be highlighted and activities will be workshopped. Learning Objectives: • Understand recent affirmative consent legislation. • Increase knowledge of consensual sex and relationships and sexual violence. • Feel confident to discuss affirmative consent, sex and violence within relationships. • Increase capacity to response appropriately to disclosures of violence.

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