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Sexual Health Victoria presents: Doing ‘IT’. In each episode, SHV's Schools, Community and Disability team interviews experts to help parents, carers and adults who work with young people navigate the world of Relationships and Sexuality Education. Want to know more about bodies, being safe, puberty, sex, sexual health, consent and relationships? This is the podcast for you.
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In this episode, Tessa speaks with Dr Fiona Shepherd about menstrual health and pelvic pain. They discuss why people might get period or pelvic pain, what falls outside of “normal” for periods and Tessa describes SHV’s Menstrual Health and Pelvic Pain program, funded by the Victorian Department of Health.
You can find more information on our Menstrual Health and Pelvic Pain program on our website: https://shvic.org.au/schools/menstrual-health-and-pelvic-pain-education-program
Here are some resources from Jean Hailes on topics mentioned during the podcast: Endometriosis, Adenomyosis, Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).
In this episode, one of our educators, Em, speaks with William Ward-Boas about including people with a cognitive disability in consent education. Listen to William reflect on relationships and consent through their lived experience, and hear about SHV’s Consent Matters – Disability program.
Resources:
Learn about SHV’s project with Women’s Health in the South East (WHISE): Consent Matters – Disability including WHISE’s evaluation report. William listed the following useful resources: Women with Disabilities Victoria's Pleasure and Consent resources, collaboration with ARCSHS, the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, and La Trobe’s Reducing Gender-Based Violence Research Group; and People with Disability Australia's Healthy Relationships project.
You can find out more about William @ www.wwbconsulting.com.au
In this episode, Louis from SHV talks to Cam from inyourskin about misogyny and the Manosphere. They discuss why young men seek out these spaces and what we can do to support them, showing them examples of healthy masculinity.
Resources:
Research from the e61 institute – Gen Z Men Are Emerging as an Outlier on Gender Norms, MensLib subreddit, Bropill subreddit, Exredpill subreddit, IncelExit subreddit, Joey Swoll, Will Hitchins, Dr K aka The Healthy Gamer, blogs from inyourskin – Adolescence: A Wake-Up Call for Educators and Parents and What Young Men Are Telling Us (and Why We Should Listen).
You can find out more about Cam and In Your Skin @ www.inyourskin.co/
In this episode, Anne from SHV explains some key guiding principles to consider when delivering Relationships and Sexuality Education. This episode will be featured in a poster submission at the World Association for Sexual Health Conference in 2025.
Resources:
UNESCO Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education (2018). Victorian Curriculum, Australian Curriculum, Resilience Rights and Respectful Relationships Initiative, Victorian Sexuality and Consent Education Policy, Victorian Child Safe Standards, Victorian LGBTIQA+ Student Support Policy. Gender Spectrum. Victorian Women’s Health Atlas, Australian Bureau of Statistics.
In this episode Leon from SHV talks to Bec from Evolve Education about Artificial Intelligence and deepfakes. They discuss how this technology impacts the lives and sexual interactions of young people.
Resources:
The eSafety website, The Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation, Kerrin Bradfield’s Respect Collective, Addressing deepfake image-based abuse, AI ‘nudify’ sites are being sued for victimising people. How can we battle deepfake abuse?, Beacon, and Take It Down.
In this episode, you will hear from the Sexual Health Victoria Schools, Community and Disability Education team.
Listen to the team discuss why they do this work, what are some of the questions young people ask in these classes and hear the team tell some of their favourite stories from the classroom. You’ll get to hear more from the team on the podcast hosting episodes in the new year.
SHV run professional development for teachers, youth workers and medical professionals. We have many free resources on our website. We also have free teaching activities and a range of online education courses.
In this episode Leon from SHV talks about embedding a whole school approach to Relationships and Sexuality Education. SHV is working in partnership with a secondary school in Melbourne’s Northwestern growth corridor. Leon unpacks some of the challenges and learnings from working with a large, new, multicultural school.
This project is funded by the DET Strategic Partnerships Program.
Resources:
Some supporting policies to inform a Relationships and Sexuality Education program are Child Safe Standards; Sexuality and Consent Education Policy; LGBTIQA+ support policy. See Strategic Partnerships Program.
In this episode we speak to performers Dean Arcuri & Jacob Thomas. Sometimes they run Drag Storytime events. Listen to Dean and Jacob describe the many ways that these events bring community, performance and storytelling together in a safe inclusive way for all.
Resources:
See Dean at Dean Arcuri and LinkedIn. Find Jacob Thomas on LinkedIn. See Rainbow Community Angels for events and news.
In this episode we talk to Krushnadevsinh Ravalji (Kano). Kano is the Youth Commissioner at the Victorian Multicultural Commission. We ask him about how educators can ensure that Relationships and Sexuality Education is inclusive and respectful for the multicultural communities that we work with.
Resources:
See more about Kano at the Third Culture. Find Kano on LinkedIn. See Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health for information and many translated health resources.
In this episode, we speak to the 2023 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, Imogen Kane. This role saw Imogen travel across Australia to meet with young people to discover what was important to them. Hear what Imogen learned about the generational divide, sexuality and relationships and the importance of listening.
Resources:
See Imogen Kane and the UN listening tour. For help learning about the programs that YP are using see the eSafety guide. Youth Affairs Council Victoria has some great information about youth participation and co-design. Find Sexual Health Victoria at shvic.org.au.
In this episode, we speak to Anita Brown Major about the sexual response cycle. As an occupational therapist, Anita uses her understanding of physiology to help people understand their own bodies, including what happens during a sexual experience. Sexual response and pleasure is the part of sexuality education that most adults did not receive and is still often not discussed in education. Anita helps us understand more.
Resources:
Find out more about Anita Brown Major at Thrive Rehab. See online orders for a Cliterate model. See SHV sexual and reproductive anatomy illustrations. Listen to episode #14 The Clitoris. For extra reading about sex and sexual response see Emily Nagoski Come As You Are.
The education team at Sexual Health Victoria sometimes get questions about how we discuss gender, sex and sexuality in a classroom. In this episode, SHV expert educator Chrissy will discuss what we say and why.
Resources:
See Victorian Child Safe Standards and Victoria Department of Education LGBTIQ Student Support Policy. See research Writing themselves in 4. Advocacy organisation Intersex Human Rights. See Minus 18 for resources and Inclusive Language Guide. Transcend Australia supports families, parents and carers of gender-diverse young people.
In this episode, Professor Michael Flood describes types of masculinities that can be harmful to boys, men and the people around them. He also details the benefits of engaging men and boys in efforts to address gender inequality and gender-based violence.
Resources:
See more about Prof Michael Flood. Read more articles from Michael at xyonline. Michael mentioned The Man Box by Jesuit Social Services. Our Watch have provided lots of information about addressing gender based violence. For more information about SHV @ shvic.org.au
Discord is a social chat app designed initially for the gaming community, now extending to a wide variety of interest groups. In this episode listen to Discord Senior Policy Director, Savannah Badalich explain what Discord does to keep users safe. Part of keeping young people safe online is understanding the platforms they use.
Resources:
DISCORD and DISCORD Safety centre. See eSafety for reporting eSafety Guide for games apps and social media. For more information about SHV @ shvic.org.au
In this episode, Laura Crozier and SHV educator Chrissy talk about their experiences finding help after being sexually assaulted in high school. Both Chrissy and Laura speak about the vital role of the welfare teams at their schools and the difficulty in disclosing abuse to parents.
Resources:
Laura works for Youth Affairs Council Victoria. Hear more of Laura’s story on Growing Up Clueless. Sexual Assault Service Victoria is the peak body for specialist sexual assault services and harmful sexual behaviour services.
In this episode Dr Jennifer Power talks about the 2022 National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health from Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at LaTrobe University.
Dr Power talks through some key statistics from the survey as well as providing perspective on why we are so keen to know how much sex young people are having.
Resources:
See Dr Jennifer Power, LaTrobe University profile. See lots of research from Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society. 7th National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health
In this episode, Dr Jacqui Hendriks talks about her recent research. Jacqui has led the First national survey of Australian parents and their attitudes towards relationships and sexuality education in schools.
Resources:
See Dr Jacqui Hendriks Curtain University bio. Link to study will be provided when available.
In this episode, two families share their stories of making babies using Assisted Reproductive Technology. Sue and Linda explain some of the process and how they decided to talk to their children about it. Their children, Emily and Elsie, talk about what they understand about how they were conceived.
Resources:
SHV has free teacher resources to assist with classroom teaching of Assisted Reproduction. These were developed with the support of the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority (VARTA)
For more about SHV, go to @ shvic.org.au
In this episode, the chair of Intersex Human Rights Dr Agli Zavros-Orr speaks of their advocacy work and their lived experience as a person born with an intersex variation. Young people often ask us how bodies can be different. Agli helps explain the diversity of human sex characteristics.
“It’s really important to challenge existing assumptions about what is intersex and really understand the physical body.”
-Dr Agli Zavros-Orr
Resources:
See more at Intersex Human Rights Australia. Find Agli’s research at research gate.
See book Raising Rosie for families.
Part 7 of 7. eSafety. Australia’s Online Safety Regulator.
This series of podcasts is produced with the support of the Office of the eSafety Commissioner.
We will look closely at how young people might engage with sexual content online and how parents and carers can get involved in this discussion.
In this episode Sharon Trotter Education Manager of Education, Prevention and Inclusion talks about the scope of eSafety and the role that they have in prevention of harm online.
See eSafety at https://www.esafety.gov.au/. Sexual Health Victoria at http://www.shvic.org.au/
Part 6 of 7
This series of podcasts is produced with the support of the Office of the eSafety Commissioner.
We will look closely at how young people might engage with sexual content online and how parents and carers can get involved in this discussion.
In this episode, Dr Zahra Stardust talks about the cultural context of pornography and how consent is vital for its production and distribution. Vanessa Hamilton speaks about her experiences in talking to families about young people, sex and pornography.
See bio for Zahra Stardust. See Talking the Talk (Vanessa Hamilton)
See Mind The Gap eSafety research.
See eSafety at https://www.esafety.gov.au/.
This series of podcasts is produced with the support of the Office of the eSafety Commissioner.
We will look closely at how young people might engage with sexual content online and how parents and carers can get involved in this discussion.
In this episode Dr. Kath Albury and SHV Health Promotion Officer Zara, discuss the language and context of young people sharing sexual pictures.
See Youth Law Australia for legal information. See Dr Kath Albury, Swinburne University.
See eSafety at https://www.esafety.gov.au/. Sexual Health Victoria at http://www.shvic.org.au/
This series of podcasts is produced with the support of the Office of the eSafety Commissioner.
We will look closely at how young people might engage with sexual content online and how parents and carers can get involved in this discussion.
In this episode Detective Superintendent, Jayne Crossling talks about what grooming is and how the police go about education and investigations.
This series of podcasts is produced with the support of the Office of the eSafety Commissioner.
We will look closely at how young people might engage with sexual content online and how parents and carers can get involved in this discussion.
In this episode, we will discuss the word inappropriate. Greg from eSafety talks through the classification system and Fida talks about the appropriateness of RSE in faith-based schools.
More about the Australian classification system. See information about Fida Sanjakdar.
See eSafety at https://www.esafety.gov.au/.
This series of podcasts is produced with the support of the Office of the eSafety Commissioner.
In this episode listen to educators talk about how the curriculum includes opportunities to deliver sessions around esafety and sexual content.
Part 1 of 7. What is the Problem?
This series of podcasts is produced with the support of the Office of the eSafety Commissioner.
We will look closely at how young people might engage with sexual content online and how parents and carers can get involved in this discussion.
In this episode, listen to parents, a wellbeing coordinator and eSafety talk about why this is a conversation you need to have with the young people in your life.
Find out more about eSafety at esafety.gov.au.
Find out more about Sexual Health Victoria at shvic.org.au.
In this episode, Sarah from marketing talks about our new name: Sexual Health Victoria.
Thanks for all the support over the last two years of Doing ‘IT'. There is lots more to come in 2022. Please get in touch with feedback or suggestions. [email protected].
In this episode CEO of Inherited, Sarah Powell talks about the importance of breast awareness. Pink Hope is a preventative health hub designed to connect and inform people about cancer risk. Young people frequently ask questions about breasts during puberty. So, what could we tell them about breast cancer risk?
Resources:
See Inherited (formerly Pink Hope) for more information: Inherited Cancers Australia. Find information on family history and cancer at the Cancer Council. For more information about Sexual Health Victoria at shvic.org.au
In this Episode SHV Schools and Community Manager Brendan Bailey speaks about the principals of trauma informed practice. We know that we deliver sessions to students, teachers and parents who have been impacted by traumatic experiences. So how can we safely deliver information about sex and sexuality with this in mind.
Resources:
See Berry St Education Model. For more information about SHV including educational resources visit shvic.org.au.
In this episode Dr Karin Hammarberg explains what happens when people need medical help to make a baby. We talk about what has changed and what the future of fertility treatments might be.
See VARTA for information about ART, including how to discuss this with children.
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