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Training Programme on Emotional, and Sexual life - for Young People with Mental Disabilities, and all who need it
SaHaSo teaches social and personal skills to young people with mental disabilities. Using art and digital communication, weekly sessions cover emotional life, relationships, and sexuality. The program aims to help them live safely and happily in society.
Aims of the tool
To instruct social and communication skills and to provide key information on emotional sexual life as means to promote the human rights and prevent potential mistreatment, enabling mentally disabled people to live safely and happily in society.
Description of the tool
SaHaSo is a program designed to teach social and personal skills to young people with mental or intellectual disabilities. It aims to improve their interpersonal relationships, emotional life, and sexuality using art methods and digital communication.
The program is developed by experts in the field and is appropriate for the developmental and social specifics of people with mental disabilities. Its goal is to support human rights and prevent potential mistreatment, enabling mentally disabled people to live safely and happily in society. The program includes weekly sessions for a period of one year and offers adapted emotional and sexual education to cultivate informed, constructive attitudes towards emotional life and sexuality, and prevent negative consequences for people with mental disabilities.
SaHaSo - Safe and Happy in Society is a Small Partnerships, Erasmus+ project that will be implemented from March 2022 until March 2024. The program is available in French, Dutch, and Bulgarian. If you are interested in the program, please contact us at impact@uthriveeurope.onmicrosoft.com. The reference number for the program is 2021-2-BE04-KA210-YOU-000048222.
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/4140
This tool is for
Educators, teachers, youth- and social workers working with youth with mental disability but also other vulnerable social groups or anyone who needs introductory information about emotional and sexual life. Parents/caregivers of people with mental disability or facing any barrier to social integration.
and addresses
Social Inclusion, Disability, Group Dynamics, Personal Development
It is recommended for use in:
Youth Exchanges
Strategic Partnerships
Materials needed:
Details are included in the description of each session in the attached Handbook.
Duration:
1 year, weekly or in 3-5 day clusters (retreats).
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Stanka Momcheva, Tatiana Levceva, Ivanka Bogdanova, Rositsa Ivanova, Maya Karakostova, Sophie Vankriekinge, Jonathan Landa
in the context of
Project SaHaSo - Safe and Happy in Society
The tool has been experimented in
Piloted during 1 year with 28 young people with mental disabilities in a day centre in Brussels, Belgium and two centres in Varna, Bulgaria.
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Tatiana Levceva (on 15 April 2024)
and last modified
12 April 2024
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