Consent
Consent is an ongoing mutual agreement to do something. It's important to teach and practice consent for all ages. Share what you are comfortable with and respect what others are comfortable with (from whether to hug someone as a greeting, to using someone's phone, to posting or sharing pictures on social media).
Consent is as easy as F.R.I.E.S. - Freely Given (not pressured, forced or coerced), Reversible (just because someone agreed to something before, it's not an automatic yes, and consent can be withdrawn at any time), Informed (everyone understands what activity they are agreeing to), Enthusiastic (not just going along with the activity but excited to be doing the activity!) and Specific (agreeing to one activity isn't agreeing to all similar activities) . The resources listed below include videos, infographics, worksheets and more to help explain and show what consent can look and sound like.
Resources About Consent
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The Consent Is… toolkit brings together many resources on consent. This toolkit is appropriate for all ages and provides a menu of options for starting or deepening a conversation about consent, including videos, lesson plans, graphics, web pages, and more. How to Use: Check out the toolkit to find a resource that works for your situation.
All Ages
Link takes you to a PDF
This app explores harassment, impersonation, and safety online and with phones, other devices, and your location. You will find tips to increase your privacy and safety. There are also resources on documenting what’s happening and where to go for help.
Middle School • High School
Link takes you to Scarleteen’s website
This checklist can be used to find what someone is comfortable doing with a partner. It can be a helpful starting point for finding boundaries and starting conversations.
High School • Post-Secondary • Adults
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This poster is an example of a greetings agreement, teaching young people to communicate what type of greeting and physical touch they feel comfortable with and how to respect others boundaries as well. Can be used in classrooms, preschools or in places that work with children.
All Ages
Link takes you to a YouTube video
This video uses borrowing a phone as way to talk about getting consent.
Middle School • High School • Post-Secondary • Adults
Link takes you to a YouTube video
A video geared towards teaching younger children about consent.
Elementary
Link takes you to a YouTube video
Consent, it's simple as Tea. This video uses making and drinking tea as a metaphor for asking for consent.
High School • Post-Secondary • Adults
Link takes you to a YouTube video
Video about how to ask for consent and how to pay attention to your partners signs to make sure everyone is on board and enthusiastic.
High School • Post-Secondary • Adults
Link takes you to Planned Parenthood’s website
This lesson plan is a guide for breaking down messages in the media around consent.
Late high school or college-aged youth (ages 17-22)
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This bookmark has ideas with age appropriate topics to start talking to kids about consent at every age.
All Ages
Link takes you to Hazelden Publishing’s website
This evidence-based program helps teens recognize the difference between caring, supportive relationships and controlling, manipulative, or abusive relationships. It is during the critical preteen and teen years that young people begin to learn the skills needed to create and foster positive relationships. Safe Dates equips young people with the tools they need to develop these important life skills. Highly engaging and interactive, Safe Dates reflects the issues today's teens face. This is intended to be facilitated by trained facilitators. In Eau Claire County, we facilitate Safe Dates at Augusta High School, Fall Creek High School, McKinley Charter School, ECASD schools through Systems of Care and Life Without Limits, and through community organizations including Eau Claire Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association's Building Bridges program, Western Dairyland's Fresh Start Program and more.
Middle School • High School
Link takes you to the CDC’s website
HIP Teens is a group-level, gender-specific and developmentally tailored sexual risk-reduction intervention. The intervention is delivered to groups of 6 -9 adolescents and is designed to provide HIV prevention information, to increase readiness to reduce risk behaviors, and to instruct, model, and allow sexually active adolescent females to practice interpersonal and self-management skills that facilitate sexual risk reduction and condom use. Sessions include developmentally appropriate strategies such as games, activities, and skits, as well as opportunities for role playing and receiving positive reinforcement from facilitators and other participants. Early sessions practice basic skills and review simple situations. As sessions progress, scenarios become more challenging and draw on participants’ experience. In Eau Claire County this program is currently facilitated with ECASD through the Systems of Care, Life Without Limits, Western Dairyland's Fresh Start, McKinley Charter School and the Juvenile Detention Center.
High School
Link takes you to UUA’s website
This is a sex education curriculum with individual lessons for K-12 students to learn skills and adopt healthy behaviors. Lessons are on a many topics and many are available in English and Spanish.
K-12
Link takes you to Planned Parenthood’s website
Planned Parenthood education departments provide a robust range of programming options. Evidence-based and delivered by trained professionals as well as options for teachers in their own classrooms
Middle School • High School
Link takes you to Planned Parenthood’s website
Facts on Sexual Health - birth control, healthy relationships, identity and more.
Middle School • High School
Link takes you to Planned Parenthood’s website
Topics include: sex, STIs, birth control, pregnancy, puberty, going to the doctor, relationships, bullying, safety & privacy, LGBTQ, All About Sex, Gender, and Gender Identity, & sexual orientation. Interactive videos & games are also available for teens to learn about various topics.
Middle School • High School
Link takes you to Planned Parenthood’s website
Information for parents to have open, non-judgmental conversations with their children about sex, puberty, bodies, and relationships. Information presented based on age group.
All Ages
Link takes you to Planned Parenthood’s website
Range of programming options: evidence-based and delivered by trained professionals. Comprehensive sex education for K-12 programs about human development, relationships, personal skills, sexual behavior, sexual health, and society and culture.
All Ages