Do you know a lot of people? I sure do! For most of those people though we have to ask ourselves, how well do we really know them? I hear…
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The Respect Yourself program created this handout to help people out. Sometimes it can be hard to tell when someone is a true friend, and when they may just be…
The Respect Yourself program recently did a presentation for a local People First chapter about boundaries we should have with staff. There were more than a few people that disagreed…
Not so much in the land of social services… I should rephrase that. In our classes when we bring up the question, what is a stranger? The pat answer of…
To continue our conversation on different relationships, we're going to talk about what a stranger REALLY is. Let me guess- when you were growing up you were taught things like,…
In our Me and You classes we talk about the different relationships we may have in our lives. I'm going to talk about some of those relationships in the next…
Some FACTS about Sexual Assault/Abuse and Developmental Disability… The risk of being physically or sexually assaulted for adults with developmental disabilities is likely 4 to 10 times as high as…
Sexuality is often confused with the acts around having sex or intercourse itself. Not always so! Sexuality is a natural part of being human for everyone, part of our “animal”…
Last week we talked about what self-esteem is. Self-esteem is how you feel about yourself. If you have good self-esteem, you usually feel good about being you. If you have…
One thing that we talk about a LOT in both of our series is self-esteem. But what is it and how does it effect us? Self-esteem is how we feel…