We welcome the opportunity to support schools, churches, youth groups and other organisations by providing bespoke training events or speaking at an organised online or in-person event. If you want us to run an online event, we can provide all the online services required to host interactive secure digital learning environments or we are happy to discuss using your own preferred services.
Topics we have been asked to speak on in the past include:
Gareth, our Esteem Network Director, has been working with the education team at a tier 4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) secure inpatient unit for the past 7 years.
In the last 2 years, he has had the privilege of leading a multi-sessional pilot programme, providing weekly relationships and sex education (RSE) sessions for young people in the care of the unit.
Founded in 2011, Esteem network member, YouMatter, work with thousands of young people across Jersey every year, helping them respond thoughtfully to the pressures, choices and challenges that they face.
As well as providing high-quality, interactive and engaging workshops for young people in schools, youth clubs and other community settings, YouMatter also offer one-to-one and small-group work for young people identified as needing additional support with any of the issues covered by their key areas of work.
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Statistics tell us that up to 40% of teenagers are involved with sending explicit images and messages (sometimes called sexting). To help youth leaders, teachers and parents talk to young people about sexting, social media and staying safe online, we've worked with Youthscape to create a card-based resource that's been piloted and tested with young people.
Our Esteem team in Southwark provide RSE in a specialist provision school for boys with social, emotional and mental health issues. This alternative educational setting supports young men who have been excluded from mainstream school for a variety of reasons.
RSE lessons are important for these students because those who find themselves in these settings tend to be the most vulnerable. This may be due to gang membership, family breakdown, behavioural or learning difficulties, or a mixture of all of these.
Earlier this term, acet UK’s Kelly-Joy had the opportunity to participate in one of our 4 Day relationship and sex education (RSE) training courses. Here she shares her experience.
Although I’ve worked with young people, I haven’t had much experience in the area of delivering relationships and sex education so I was really excited about the opportunity to participate in our Esteem training course here in Chester.
1 in 8 children have a diagnosable mental health disorder – that’s roughly 3 children in every classroom - and only a quarter of them have contact with a mental health specialist.
Not all of these young people will have severe problems but sadly many will experience significant difficulties, and miss time from school and therefore any RSE they would have otherwise received.
One of the key benefits of accessing our accredited relationships and sex education (RSE) training course is that the training fee includes your first year’s membership in the Esteem network of RSE educators. Teachers who attend our 1-day teacher training course also have the option to join the network.
Members of the Esteem network are licenced to use our huge range of Esteem lesson plans and activities, and to access the members’ section of the acet UK website.
The Esteem network of independent educators and organisations across the UK (and beyond) are trained, equipped and supported by the acet UK team in their relationships and sex education delivery.
One of our longest running partnerships is with Blue Sky Trust.
Blue Sky Trust was set up in 1992 as a Christian response to HIV, supporting hundreds of men, women and children living with, and affected by HIV, in North East England and North Cumbria.
