
Starting the Conversation Curriculum
Relation-Shift is proud to have contributed to these free materials! Three 40-minute lessons, including videos and conversation starters to teach 8th-12th graders about sexual bullying, consent, and healthy attitudes to prevent and respond to sexual violence and harassment.

Making Caring Common Parent & Educator Tool Kit
Two comprehensive guides created for parents and educators to start a discussion with young people about equality, healthy relationships, and gender discrimination. These toolboxes have great ideas with a host of meaningful tips to start the conversation.

Scarleteen Website and Forums
There are some things teens and tweens just feel too uncomfortable to talk to with family members or teachers. To fill the gap in the conversation, you can introduce Scarleteen to young people. This website is packed with safe, healthy advice that is moderated by health professionals.

PBS LEARNING MEDIA
PBS has hundreds of videos to open the minds of adults and kids- for example it has 26 videos about sexism and 306 videos on gender!

Futures Without Violence
Futures Without Violence is a national organization with extensive resources, materials and information for preventing and addressing relationship and sexual violence

PreventConnect
PreventConnect strives to advance the primary prevention of sexual assault and relationship violence by building a community of practice.

One Love
This foundation educates young people about the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships so they can seek help before an abusive relationship escalates to violence. Access their blogs, videos, and educational tools to empower youth in your life to identify and avoid abuse and learn how to love better.

Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance has hundreds of free resources for K-12 educators and practitioners who want to learn how to shape inclusive policies, empower vulnerable students, and help students explore identity, diversity, and social justice. Access texts, webinars, and lesson plans addressing gender and sexual identity, bullying and bias, race and ethnicity, and much more!

The Trevor Project
It is critical to include LGBTQ+ students in dialogue about sex and sexuality because they experience sexual violence at similar, often higher rates, than straight, cisgender youth. The Trevor Project provides free resources for both LGBTQ youth and allies to learn more about this community and how to support its members. In addition, you can access materials about crisis intervention and suicide prevention.

Amaze
Amaze has over a hundred humorous, educational, and age-appropriate sex education videos for young adults. In addition, adults can access free toolkits, lesson plans, and parent guides to help them build the skills to talk effectively, honestly, and positively about sex and sexuality with the youth in their life.

Go Ask Alice!
Go Ask Alice! is a renowned blog created and run by Columbia University health professionals and researchers with advanced degrees in public health, health education, medicine, counseling and more. Read medically-accurate and straight-forward articles answering questions about general health, sexual and reproductive health, relationships, and more!

White Ribbon Toolbox
The Start with Respect Campaign offers tips and guidance for teen men about how to build and have respectful relationships/sexual relationships with women.

Start Boston Strong
Start Strong Boston, a program of the Boston Public Health Commission, supports young people to end teen dating violence and to learn skills and strategies for healthy relationships. The website includes relationship communication strategies, a healthy relationship quiz, tools for thinking through break-ups, and activities to think through the misogynistic content of popular music lyrics.

The Representation Project
The Representation Project features resources such as quizzes that ask teens to assess how well fictional characters defy stereotypes and/ or act as positive role models, and conversation starters/activities for youth leaders and female athletes about the ways in which mainstream media shapes their beliefs about women and girls.

Youth Activist Prevention Toolkit
Youth Activist Prevention Toolkit, a project of the Florida Commission Against Domestic Violence’s Youth Advisory Board, is for students who wish to raise awareness about teen dating violence and prevent its occurrence in their schools and communities.

Confi.co
Confi provides a compilation of information on sensitive health topics, research, and facts. Young people can learn about healthy relationships, how to communicate about sex, consent, setting boundaries, etc…

Fight the New Drug
Fight the New Drug is a website about the effects of pornography, featuring guidelines for parents, and recovery programs for porn users.

Men Can Stop Rape
Men Can Stop Rape is a national nonprofit that strives to mobilize men and use their strength to create cultures free from violence, especially violence against women. They offer extensive handouts about healthy masculinity, racism and race, supporting survivors, what men can do, and more.

I am Courageous
I am Courageous encourages and teaches students how to use their voices to help end teen dating abuse through information sheets, tips, resource lists, and videos.

The Joyful Heart Foundation
The Joyful Heart Foundation is a leading national organization that strives to support survivors and educate society about sexual assault and rape, vicarious trauma, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect.

Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood provides educational programs and resources to enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality. They offer information spanning topics related to relationships, gender identity, sexual orientation, health and wellness, and birth control.

Sex, Etc.
Sex, Etc., a project of Answer at Rutgers, is a national newsletter and website that is written by teens, for teens. They offer comprehensive sex ed about sex, pregnancy, condoms, birth control, STIs, and relationships through stories, blogs, videos, and a glossary of nearly 400 terms your teen should know.

Love Is Respect
Love Is Respect provides support, information, and resources for young people who have questions or concerns about abuse in dating relationships. The website includes a variety of quizzes and visual graphics about dating violence, healthy relationships, and consent and features abuse resources especially for LGBTQ students. Free and confidential phone, live chat, and texting services are also available.

The Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN)
RAINN offers a wide range of information on sexual assault statistics, risk reduction, side effects, and legal issues. It also tells you how to recognize sexual assault and how to report it, providing links and resources with additional information. It even operates its own 24/7 sexual assault hotline.

Break The Cycle
Break the Cycle motivates and supports young people to speak out about dating abuse in their schools and communities. Features facts, infographics, and handouts for talking to teens about healthy relationships, consent, setting boundaries, using online dating apps, and other relationship realities.

GCAPP Parental Toolkit
GCAPP is a nonprofit organization that offers comprehensive sexual education and empowers youth to make healthy decisions related to their physical, mental, and sexual wellness. Their Parental Toolkit can help you navigate topics like sexting, sexuality, and cyberbullying with teens.

5 Love Languages
The 5 Love Languages, originally a 1992 book written by Gary Chapman, is now an accessible quiz you can take alone or with your kids, teens, and partner(s) to identify your “love language” or the way in which you express appreciation and experience love. These can include words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service and physical touch.

The Halls Series
The Halls tells the stories of three young men and their struggles sifting through relationships, trauma, masculinity, and their own identities.

Yes to Consent (YES!)
YES offers sex-positive and developmentally appropriate sexuality education for people of all ages. They have a podcast, What is Sex? answering critical questions about love and relationships as well as coloring books empowering kids to care for their bodies.

Six Minute Sex Ed
Sex educator, Kim Cavil created this podcast to empower families, educators, and youth to talk more about sex, relationships, and growing up together. Available on SoundCloud and Spotify, these bite-sized podcasts are great for beginners (check out level 1 episodes!) and advanced learners (check out level 2 episodes!).





























