Rights-Based, Medically Accurate, Trauma-Informed, and Culturally Sensitive

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Safe, Healthy, Legal, and Situationally Appropriate

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Positive, Proactive, Preventative, and Person-Centered

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Rights-Based, Medically Accurate, Trauma-Informed, and Culturally Sensitive ~ Safe, Healthy, Legal, and Situationally Appropriate ~ Positive, Proactive, Preventative, and Person-Centered ~

Pioneers in Person-Centered Social-Sexual Support Services

Innovative Solutions to Social and Sexual Concerns for People with Complex Needs

Dear Case Management Entities,

With more than 15 years of experience, we can help you LEVEL UP your client options!

  • Home and Community Based Services

  • Self-Determination & Person-Centered

  • Supported Decision-Making

Preview our NEW 7 min. video available for purchase now!

Introductory price of only $20 in our tool market!

Get it before the cost goes up!!! Offer ends 12/31/2025.

Get started with Positive Behavior Support Services today!

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Hey Friends!

  • Dec. 2025 - We’ve recorded two new videos aimed at helping organizations like yours attract and retain employees, prioritize self-determination, and improve peoples’ overall quality of life! You can find them in our tool market!

  • Dec. 2025 - We’re preparing to hire even more positive support professionals in Washington

  • Dec. 2025 - Shanya just received notice that her proposal was accepted for the 2026 START National Training Institute (SNTI) Conference in May!

  • Dec. 2025 - Our agency is upgrading several of it’s systems for 2026! We hope this will make our processes more efficient and easier for everyone!

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Our Mission

Our mission is to help anyone who cares for someone with complex needs to understand their social-sexual behaviors within an ecological framework and offer innovative strategies, skills and solutions. 

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Our Expertise

Our specialty is helping people with everything related to:

  • Bodies - body parts, bodily functions, body image

  • Gender - exploring gender identity / expression, transitioning

  • Sexuality - orientation, self-pleasuring, activities, risky behaviors

  • Relationships - friendship, dating, partnership, breaking up

  • Communication - boundaries and consent

  • Rights - self determination and supported decision-making

  • Trauma - sexual trauma, sexually maladaptive behaviors, trauma-informed care

  • And Other Related Topics – such as: sexuality and technology, healthy sexual development, safety and legalities…and much, much, more!!!

“I will use what I learned with the individuals I support as a behavior professional. I am excited to have conversations with individuals and their caregivers/supports around building a structure for healthy human needs!”

— Participant in “It’s Not Just About Saying ‘No” at the FACT Summit 2024

The latest from our Blog...
Adaptive Sexual Aids: Supporting Pleasure, Access & Intimacy for People with Disabilities
Adaptive Sexual Aids: Supporting Pleasure, Access & Intimacy for People with Disabilities

Adaptive sexual aids provide meaningful pathways to greater access, autonomy, pleasure and relational intimacy for people with disabilities. They are not simply “nice extras” but can be integral to fulfilling sexual lives.

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Objectophilia - What is it?, Where does it come from?, and how should you respond?
Objectophilia - What is it?, Where does it come from?, and how should you respond?

Objectophilia, or objectum-sexuality, is an emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to specific inanimate objects. If someone you support experiences objectophilia, then how you respond matters.

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Co-Regulation: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Practice It
Co-Regulation: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Practice It

If you’re in a supporting role—parent, caregiver, mentor, therapist or friend—practicing co-regulation can transform not just how you help someone in a moment, but how they learn to help themselves in many future moments.

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Let’s Talk About Disabled Sex and Joy
Let’s Talk About Disabled Sex and Joy

Sexuality doesn’t stop at the threshold of bodies labelled “disabled” — in fact, for many disabled people it opens up a whole new playbook of pleasure, creativity, adaptation and joy. Disabled sex can absolutely be joyful, playful, exploratory, raucous, tender, kinky — all of the above. It deserves its place in the conversation.

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