Traffic Lights® is a globally recognised program and framework for professionals to recognise sexual behaviours in children and young people. The program provides professionals with a framework that is age and developmentally appropriate, positive, and protective.
Traffic Lights® can be used by a wide variety of professionals, including schools, early childhood education and care centres, health professionals, social workers, and psychologists.
The way adults interpret sexual behaviours affects how they respond to, support and protect children and young people. This training will help participants to:
- Understand sexual development as a typical aspect of childhood and adolescence.
- Use Traffic Lights® to identify the characteristics of healthy sexual behaviours as well as those which are concerning, problematic or harmful.
- Ask pertinent questions to understand why behaviours are occurring.
- Develop practical response strategies guided by the needs of those involved.
- Apply best practice approaches to responding to sexual risk, sexual abuse disclosure or signs of sexual abuse.
- Promote healthy sexual development within their workplace.