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About SoSafe and Rationale

What is SoSafe?

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So Safe is an accessible education program that supports people with disability of varying presentations. Its implementation can help individuals better understand social and sexual safety.

How does it work?

The So Safe Framework is a set of easy-to-understand concepts and tools that facilitate learning about social and sexual safety, laying the groundwork to skills to build healthy and safe social connections.

The framework helps to make the complex social world more accessible, understandable, and teachable to those with cognitive challenges. Accompanying tools and resources can be tailored to individuals and classrooms for both children and adults to enhance understanding.

Healthy and safe relationships are not only a protective factor, but they are a human right. Educating people with varying ability how to safely navigate different social relationships reduces the risk of harm while enabling an authentic and more equal participation in society.


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What is new in Version 3?

Redeveloped by a multi-disciplinary team, version 3 brings together the principles of the past So Safe with feedback, updated evidence-based, and consultation with So Safe users and participants.

Links to SHFPACT and Safer Me Safer You

For 50 years, Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT (SHFPACT) has provided clinical, training and education services in Canberra and the region to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes for many people in our community. SHFPACT has been delivering SoSafe training for nearly 25 years!

SoSafe is a product of SHFPACT. The SoSafe refresh is led by the Safer Me Safer You (SMSY) team. Visit the Safer Me Safer You website for more information.

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Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT (SHFPACT) are the owners of the SoSafe Framework.

SoSafe® is a Registered Trademark and can only be used to describe materials and training programs approved by the authors of the SoSafe® Framework.

The SHFPACT office is located on the land of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present. We acknowledge all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Custodians of Country and their continuing connection to land, sea, culture and community. We encourage any First Nations visitors to this site to share their voice with the project by contacting us.

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