ARCSHS
City Campus
La Trobe University
215 Franklin St
Melbourne
Victoria 3000
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 3 92855382
Fax: +61 3 92855220
Email: ssay
@latrobe.edu.au
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Same Sex Attracted Youth (SSAY) website
For same sex attracted young people, workers, families and friends.
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Welcome to the SSAY website. This website is for same sex attracted and transgender young people, your friends and families and for people who work with you in schools and in the community. The website is the initiative of researchers at The Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society (ARCSHS), at La Trobe University. It is funded by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation. We want to keep you up to date with our current research and the ways that we are using the research to bring about change, particularly to reduce homophobia. This might be in the form of reports, journal articles, booklets, posters, briefings and conferences many of which can be downloaded from this website. |
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Beyond Homophobia Blueprint!!
The Beyond Homophobia Policy Blueprint was launched on April 20th 2010 at the Ftizroy Town Hall reading room.
The aim of this project is to map a way forward -'beyond homophobia'- for those who work with same sex attracted and transgender young people in Victoria. Over the past year we have been busy at work on the project.
We are now moving into the Implementation Phase. For more information see the project webpage.
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NEWS FLASH!!
We are delighted to announce that The Buckland Foundation has very generously provided a further grant for this work. |
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| POSH Interviews - funded by Vic Health |
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25 same sex attracted young Victorians aged between 16 - 21 years, have been interviewed for this research every 6 months for two years. Over the years we have carried out a lot of research with same sex attracted young people but mostly it has been in 'one off' encounters and we have found that we really do not know enough about 'what happened next'. This project has stopped accepting new participants. A report should be out by end 2010. |
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| NEW!! - Young people's stories. |
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Read the stories of other same sex attracted young people or send us your story to publish on our website. All stories have identifying information removed. |
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| Homophobic bullying |
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Is homophobic bullying different from other forms of bullying?
We think YES -
Can it be covered by a generalised school code of conduct?
We think NO - click to see why.
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| NEW Report - "This group gave me a family" evaluation of support groups for SSAY |
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This report looks at the health impacts of belonging to a support group f20 January, 2011t a survey about their health and well being at Time 1 when they were new to the group and Time 2 four months later. Belonging to a group was associated with improved feelings about sexuality and life itself. Other benefits are also documented in this report. |
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| NEW resource - The POSH booklet |
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The message of this booklet is 'Homophobia - you don't have to wear it'. Over the last 10 years, 1000s of same sex attracted young people have written to us about damaging beliefs about homosexuality and how they have outsmarted those beliefs. The booklet looks at the beliefs, where they come from, ways to outsmart them and useful links. The POSH booklet can be downloaded here or ring Mel at ARCSHS on 92855382 or m.hales@latrobe.edu.au We'd love feedback on the booklet - Please tell us what you think of it. |
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