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Support for families and professionals

Family Planning Tasmania (FPT) provides education and advocacy for people living with a disability. FPT’s disability and special needs program works closely with our clinical staff to ensure supportive, quality, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care for people living with a disability. FPT can provide age-appropriate education sessions for individuals or small groups. We believe that:

• sexuality is intrinsically healthy and normal
• sexuality is a human right and we need to make healthy choices about it
• we need to know how to form and maintain healthy relationships
• people living with a disability have the right to express their sexuality and to make informed choices about their sexuality and relationships.

Professional Development

FPT offers a number of programs to equip families, professionals – including support workers, teachers and teacher assistants with the knowledge and strategies to enable them to support the relationships and sexual needs of people living with a disability. Fees may apply for consultancy and professional development workshops. Contact edinfo@fpt.asn.au for bookings and more information on the following courses: