Deadline: 25-Jul-2025
The SHINE SA wants to support your organisation or community group to get involved in Sexual Health Week!
SHINE SA can also support your organsation by providing resources (such as posters, condoms, Fact Sheets) and information.
Themes
- This year’s theme, The More You Know, highlights the importance of accurate sexual health knowledge and its impact on overall wellbeing. By promoting inclusive and accessible conversations about sexual health, we can reduce stigma, empower individuals to embrace sex positivity, and support informed decision-making about their sexual health and wellbeing. There are many topics that fit within this theme, including:
- Consent
- Safer sex
- Contraception (feeling confident about the choices that are available)
- Respectful relationships
- Communication.
- Each organisation can focus on a single topic or several, depending on their clients/community and what they feel will be most beneficial
What could an event look like?
- There are all types of events that can help start conversations around sexual health and relationship wellbeing. Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Host a workshop or morning tea where you chat about respectful relationships and sexual health facts.
- Run a trivia session with myth-busting questions about STIs, consent, and contraception.
- Create a youth scavenger hunt or quiz focused on safety, respect, and sexual health knowledge.
- Hand out ‘knowledge kits’ with resources, condoms, and helpful links at your workplace or school.
- Invite a speaker or show a short video for a lunchtime info session on a sexual health topic.
- Host an event inviting people to share “one thing they wish they’d learned earlier” about sexual health.
- Host an art workshop with a session on consent and communication in relationships.
Funding Information
- SHINE SA will provide five successful organisations with a $2,000 grant (inc gst) to host an event that raises awareness of sexual and reproductive health.
Eligibility Criteria
- Anyone with an ABN (South Australia only) can apply for a grant. This does not mean that everyone will be successful, as the number of grants is limited. Preference will be given to applicants that meet the following criteria:
- Targets 18–30 year old’s
- Broadens an understanding of sexual health and in particular safety, pleasure and respect.
- Empowers young people to participate.
- Priority will also be given to applicants working with young adults who are culturally and linguistically diverse, are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, LGBTIQA+, have a disability, or live in economically marginalized areas.
- Organizations must also agree to the following – The planned event will:
- Respect diversity and inclusion, including LGBTIQA+ inclusion
- Offer a positive and open view of relationships and sexuality
- Share evidence-based information and be contextually appropriate for the audience.
For more information, visit SHINE SA.