At Among Friends, we strive to provide affordable tools and resources to support healthy relationships and healthy sexual development.
Choose from our different categories to provide education, skill-building, and innovative strategies regarding these critical topics for someone you support!
Being able to understand social-sexual behaviors is a crucial element of knowing how to respond to sexual behaviors and what strategies to recommend or use when creating a behavior plan. These tools are designed to gather, clarify, and provide insights regarding behaviors and behavioral context, and to guide a support team as they work to support a person with complex needs.
Being able to understand social-sexual behaviors is a crucial element of knowing how to respond to sexual behaviors and what strategies to recommend or use when creating a behavior plan. These tools are designed to gather, clarify, and provide insights regarding behaviors and behavioral context, and to guide a support team as they work to support a person with complex needs.
This deck includes 38 different types of common public and private locations and a template to “fill in” your own!
There are instructions for how to use this deck to help someone:
learn to identify public vs. private locations
learn about pro-social and problematic behaviors in different locations
learn where romantic or sexual activities can take place
Each printable deck comes with instructions for how it can be used independently to build different knowledge and skills, as well as how to combine decks for more complex learning.
Relationship Categories
Body Parts
Types of Touch
Public and Private Locations
Romantic and Sexual Activities
This deck includes 49 different types of touch and a template to “fill in” your own!
There are instructions for how to use this deck to help someone:
learn about healthy, safe, and/or legal touch
practice consent
learn about healthy boundaries
learn about abuse
Each printable deck comes with instructions for how it can be used independently to build different knowledge and skills, as well as how to combine decks for more complex learning.
Relationship Categories
Body Parts
Types of Touch
Public and Private Locations
Romantic and Sexual Activities
This deck includes 45 different external body parts and a template to “fill in” your own!
There are instructions for how to use this deck to help someone:
learn different body parts
learn the clinical names and/or slang terms for body parts
learn about abuse
learn about personal and professional boundaries
Each printable deck comes with instructions for how it can be used independently to build different knowledge and skills, as well as how to combine decks for more complex learning.
Relationship Categories
Body Parts
Types of Touch
Public and Private Locations
Romantic and Sexual Activities
This deck includes 52 different types of common relationships and a template to “fill in” your own!
There are instructions for how to use this deck to help someone:
learn about abuse
learn about giving/requesting personal information
learn about healthy communication
learn who can (and cannot) be a romantic or sexual partner
Each printable deck comes with instructions for how it can be used independently to build different knowledge and skills, as well as how to combine decks for more complex learning.
Relationship Categories
Body Parts
Types of Touch
Public and Private Locations
Romantic and Sexual Activities
Nurturing touch is a basic human need. This tool will help match the types of touch a supported person wants and the types of touch their professional staff are willing and able to offer.
This tool includes:
Basic information on the importance of nurturing, affectionate touch.
Physical, Psychological, and Social benefits of nurturing touch.
Reminders about what to do before offering caring forms of touch.
A Menu of Nurturing Touch options professionals can offer someone and instructions for how to use the menu.
Questions about things to consider regarding touch when supporting someone.
This guide is designed to be used by someone for their own education or by members of a support team to help them.
This tool is more than 30 pages and includes:
Definitions of key terms
Discussion of different opinions and values regarding masturbation
Guidelines for talking/asking about masturbation
Four extensive worksheets, each with reflection questions
Understanding the crisis cycle, and knowing how to respond at each stage of it, can dramatically improve your odds of helping someone de-escalate and avoid a crisis.
This tool includes:
An overview of the crisis cycle
An explanation of:
Baseline and proactive strategies
Escalation and intervention strategies
Recovery and de-escalation strategies
Stabilization and re-regulation strategies
Complete set of all 5 card decks… 35% discount
This set includes all 5 of our social-sexual card decks. Each printable deck comes with instructions for how it can be used independently to build different knowledge and skills, as well as how to combine decks for more complex learning.
Relationship Categories
Body Parts
Types of Touch
Public and Private Locations
Romantic and Sexual Activities
Instructions are included for multiple different ways to use these decks to help someone. Here are just a few:
to learn about abuse
to learn about pro-social, public behaviors
to learn about giving/requesting personal information
to learn about safe, healthy, and legal touch
to learn who can (and cannot) be a romantic or sexual partner
This deck includes 59 different romantic & sexual activities and a template to “fill in” your own!
There are instructions for how to use this deck to help someone:
learn about boundaries in different relationships
learn about abuse
learn the difference between romantic, sensual, and sexual activities
learn about consent
Each printable deck comes with instructions for how it can be used independently to build different knowledge and skills, as well as how to combine decks for more complex learning.
Relationship Categories
Body Parts
Types of Touch
Public and Private Locations
Romantic and Sexual Activities
This 45 min. training video is for any current or new staff members to learn how to work with people to help them build the life they want for themselves - emphasizing self-determination and quality of life.
The video covers the following:
an overview of what disabilities and disorders are and how they develop
what self-determination is and why it’s important
balancing safety and empowerment
examples of behaviors and how to respond to them while centering self-determination (examples include: health, safety, legal issues, and social-sexual behaviors)
Once you purchase this video, you’ll be able to insert the link into your organization’s training materials to help your staff feel more confident and competent in addressing behaviors that can feel difficult or uncomfortable, helping decrease staff turnover!
This short, 7 min. video is designed to help anyone thinking about taking a job supporting people with disabilities and disorders to decide if this field of work is right for them - BEFORE they engage in the application, interviewing, and training processes. It outlines some of the amazing benefits of working with people with complex needs, as well as sharing some of the challenges. This video will help your organization save time, money, and lead to increased employee retention.
Once you purchase this video, you’ll receive a link you can put on your website and in your social media to help you find qualified, committed additional members of your team!
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