The Facts... without the Lecture
B4uDecide.ie is closing down at the end of May 2024.
Alternative sources of relationships and sexuality information and resources:
- For 16-25 year olds: SpunOut.ie is an information provision website, including relationships and sexuality issues.
- For 17+ year olds: Sexualwellbeing.ie is the HSE website that provides information and resources on a wide range of information such as consent, contraception, sexual transmitted infections, vaccinations and unplanned pregnancy
- For parents: The HSE’s ‘Making the ‘Big Talk’ many small talks’ series of booklets to help parents and children talk about relationships and sexuality is available online, and to order free of charge from healthpromotion.ie. HSE funded RSE workshops are available at npc.ie and ifpa.ie
- For teachers: Junior Cycle SPHE Resources are available to support the new 2023 SPHE specification , including the Relationship and Sexuality strand.
- For youthworkers: HSE funded training on relationship and sexuality issues is available at REAL U | Foroige and Tailored Training Courses – National Youth Council of Ireland
What’s important to you?
Here are some things that people believe but you may have some of your own too:
- It’s important to be true to yourself.
- It’s always better to be honest.
- If I expect other people to respect me, I have to start with respecting myself.
- I should treat others as I would like to be treated myself.
- I am responsible for my own actions.
- It’s not good to intentionally hurt someone’s feelings.
- I should always think before I act.
- It is good to care for others.
- It is good to have your own opinions and to allow others to have their own opinions too.
- It is good to give time to build trust with people and to be trusted by people.
Before you make big decisions in your life, think about what’s important to you. If you act against what you believe you might wish you hadn’t.