SoSAFE! Training

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Become a SoSAFE! Registered User. 

SoSAFE! is a set of visual and conceptual tools designed to promote social safety for people with an Intellectual Disability (moderate to severe range) and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

SoSAFE! tools encourage social safety through the provision of a simplified and rule-governed model of social reality that teaches the type and degree of verbal and physical intimacy appropriate with different categories of people. 

SoSAFE! USER COURSES | CANBERRA ACT

SHFPACT runs one-day SoSAFE! user courses throughout the year in Canberra. See our 2020 dates below.

We also offer in-house courses for your organisation at dates suitable to you. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more details or to make a booking.

• 10 MARCH 2023
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• 2 JUNE 2023
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• 25 AUGUST 2023
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• 117 NOVEMBER 2023
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• COST
  $495 including GST

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VENUE
Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning, 51 Freemantle Drive, Stirling

SESSION TIMES
9:30am – 4.30pm
Morning tea, lunch and afternoon provided.

If you have previously completed SoSAFE! User Training, you are encouraged to attend this course as a refresher (cost: $125 including GST). This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or more details or to make a booking.

SOSAFE! USER TRAINING | NEW SOUTH WALES

Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT are proud to announce 2 SoSAFE! User Training in Sydney. There is currently no face-to-face training planned for 2022 in South Australia, Victoria, or Queensland, so this training may be of interest to you if your training need is urgent. There may be interstate opportunities next year.

20 tickets are available for each day, with additional days possible if tickets sell out.

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• VENUE
  175 One Hotels and Apartments
  175 Hawkesbury Road
  Westmead, NSW 2145
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Cost: $495 including GST (also eligible under NDIS Category ‘Improved Daily Living Skills’)

SOSAFE! USER TRAINING | VICTORIA

• 27 MARCH 2023
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• VENUE
  Family Planning Victoria
  901 Whitehorse Road
  Box Hill, VICTORIA

Cost: $495 including GST (also eligible under NDIS Category ‘Improved Daily Living Skills’)

SOSAFE! USER TRAINING | SOUTH AUSTRALIA

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Cost: $495 including GST (also eligible under NDIS Category ‘Improved Daily Living Skills’)

SOSAFE! USER TRAINING | QUEENSLAND

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Cost: $495 including GST (also eligible under NDIS Category ‘Improved Daily Living Skills’)

 SoSAFE! TQI Accredited

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SoSAFE! TQI Accredited Course : For teachers and educators
SHFPACT runs SoSAFE! TQI accredited courses through the year
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SoSAFE! FREE TASTERS
SHFPACT runs one day SoSAFE! tasters throught the year.
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SoSAFE! USER COURSE: Australia wide
Please contact SHFPACT at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 02 6247 3077 if you would like a SoSafe user course held in your state.

SoSAFE! GOES TO WORK
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GROUP BOOKINGS:
If you are considering a group booking, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 02 6247 3077 and we may be able to tailor dates to suit your group.

NDIS BOOKINGS:
If you have a NDIS package, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 02 6247 3077.

SoSAFE! Training receivables:

• Full day course (includes morning & afternoon tea)
• One copy of the SoSAFE! Manual
• SoSAFE! CD-ROM Resource Kit
• Licence to produce SoSAFE! materials for up to 50 clients at a time
• SoSAFE! Certificate

The SoSAFE! Tools (together with SoSAFE! Certified Training) provide teachers, trainers and counsellors with skills and simple visual tools to enhance the social, social-sexual and social safety training of people with moderate to severe intellectual disability.

SoSAFE! uses a standardised framework of symbols, visual teaching tools and concepts to teach strategies for moving into intimate relationships in a safe and measured manner, and provides visual communication tools for reporting physical or sexual abuse.

SoSAFE! training includes:

• Overview of SoSAFE! Tools
• Lesson Sequence of SoSAFE! concepts and teaching strategies
• Myths and misconceptions and the importance of social safety education
• Typical learning characteristics of people with MSID
• Cognitive development of people with MSID
• Validation of social safety programs (Freda Briggs framework, how SoSAFE! aligns)
• Lots of opportunities for questions & clarification

The one day SoSAFE! User Training is an essential part of the SoSAFE! Program and introduces teachers, counsellors and disability workers with the framework and rationale behind SoSAFE! and equips them with the visual tools, lesson plans and skills to implement this integrated framework for teaching relationships, sexuality and sexual health to people with a moderate to severe intellectual disability.

More about SoSAFE!

SoSAFE!'s framework of symbols and concepts facilitate the consistency of instructional strategies and materials which is essential for the acquisition and maintenance of skills and concepts by people with moderate to severe intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

SoSAFE! is unique as a social skills, sexuality education and social safety program because it is not just a set of published materials accessible to a few clients at a time. The 2nd Edition CD-ROM included in the SoSAFE! kit acts as your own production facility that provides materials and teaching tools for up to 50 clients.

SoSAFE! tools are designed on the basis of best special education practice to reduce vulnerability to sexual abuse, and improve the quality of social life of people with a moderate to severe intellectual disability.

The authors of SoSAFE! recognise and affirm that individuals with intellectual disability are people with sexual feelings, needs and identities, and believe that sexuality should always be seen in the total context of human relationships. They believe that people with intellectual disability have the fundamental right as individuals to have privacy; love and be loved; develop friendships and emotional relationships; learn about sex, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, safe sex and other issues regarding sexuality; exercise their rights and responsibilities in regard to privacy and sexual expression and the rights of others; marry and make informed decisions concerning having children; and develop expressions of sexuality reflective of age, social development, cultural values and social responsibility.

The Rationale Behind SoSAFE!

SoSAFE! sets out to create visual and conceptual tools which provide maximum simplification of concepts and cognitive challenge whilst still providing a social-sexual model of adequate complexity to reflect, in general, the main aspects of social reality and in particular, provide social skills and concepts necessary to avoid sexual abuse and exploitation. SoSAFE! is designed to meet the learning, social and communication needs of people with Moderate to Severe Intellectual Disability.

SoSAFE! Concepts & Tools

1. The Talk Touch Triangle
Teaches the type and degree of verbal and physical intimacy appropriate with different categories of people. Levels of verbal and physical intimacy are specified and taught for each person type.

2. Steps to Relationship
Teaches ways of moving into intimate relationship in a safe and measured manner. STR is based on the concepts taught in the Talk Touch Triangle. Its main purpose is to encourage students and clients to move into intimate relationships in a gradual and safe manner starting with ‘meeting people’ and followed by four additional stages, all involving the concept of ‘consent’.

3. The People & Relationship Book
Incorporates information from the TTT and STR and OK Helpers (see below), and constantly accompanies the student or client in all domains of their lives (residential, educational/vocational and recreational).

4. OK Helpers
A network of trusted people to be contacted if in need of help, including their contact details, and the Help Page (a visual communication tool for reporting abuse). Plus Templates, Social Scripts, Lotto Files and more resources.