About SL&RR
SL&RR is for anyone with an intellectual disability who wants to talk about and share ideas about having respectful relationships in their lives.
People with intellectual disability are trained as peer educators to run the program in collaboration with community sexual health and sexual assault response professionals who are trained as program co-facilitators.
Together peer educators and co-facilitators form local networks that work together to promote, further develop and evaluate the program and to connect it to other abuse prevention work locally.
This model and program are unique. It focuses on ideas of rights, privacy and safety within relationships using stories told by people with disability and gathered through life story research. People with disabilities are engaged throughout the program and drive the ongoing development of the model.
Staff
Manager
Patsie Frawley
National Co-ordinator
Amie O'Shea
Contact us
Get involved
SL&RR is always growing and looking for new people to participate. If you would like to set up a local SL&RR site network, and would like more information, feel free to get in touch.
We would also love to hear from you. Share your stories and experiences with SL&RR and stay up to date with our growing community.
Email SL&RR
+61 3 5227 8353
Network site contact details
Central Victoria
slrr@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 5227 3020
Barwon
slrr@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 5227 3020
Gippsland
More information on SL&RR in Gippsland is coming soon. To learn more about the Gippsland local network you can contact:
Alisha Gilliland
Rural Access Project Officer, South Gippsland Shire Council
Alisha.Gilliland@SouthGippsland.vic.gov.au
+61 3 5662 9376
Melbourne South East
Jess Elsworth
Women’s Health in the South East
jelsworth@whise.org.au
Western Sydney
Ee-Lin Chang
Family Planning NSW
eelinc@fpnsw.org.au
+61 2 8752 4304
Blue Mountains
Cherie Brandon
Blue Mountains Womens Health and Resource Centre
cherie@bmwhrc.org
+61 2 4782 5133
Synapse
The Synapse site in Sydney runs a specific SL&RR program for people with brain injury.
Sonya Green
Synapse Australia
sgreen@synapse.org.au
+61 432 165 300
Events
Past events
SL&RR PD Day
Deakin Downtown, Melbourne
25 October 2017
PD Day is a chance for trained Peer Educators and Program Partners from across our sites to gather together, meet each other and create networks.
The theme of the day is ‘working together’ and will include a workshop from an external facilitator on how we can continue to improve our group work and facilitation skills.
Having a Say Conference
Geelong, Victoria, February 2017
Presentation by Linda Stokoe, Emily Ardley, Rebecca Davie, Victoria Cini and Amie O’Shea.
Sex, sexuality and the rights of people with a disability forum
Melbourne University, April 2017
Presentation by Linda Stokoe and Patsie Frawley
Family Planning Victoria: The Pleasure Agenda
Melbourne, May 2017
Presentation by Patsie Frawley
Centre for Excellence in Rural Sexual Health; SEXrurality conference
Lancefield, Victoria, August 2017
Keynote plenary presentation by Amie O’Shea, Victoria Cini and Emily Ardley and peer to peer workshop by peer educators and program partners from across the networks.
Deakin University Sexuality Educators Course
Deakin, September 2017
Guest Lectures – Health and Physical Education
Deakin University, July 18, 19 and 21
Presentations by Patsie Frawley.
Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity
Hawaii, USA, October 2017
Professional Development Day - SL&RR, Working Together
Deakin Downtown, Melbourne, October 25
Employing the experts: Sexual lives and respectful relationships peer educators at Deakin University
Centre for Health through Action on Social Exclusion forum
Melbourne, November 2017