Archive for the ‘Respect Yourself’ Category
What is a boyfriend or girlfriend?
Boyfriends and girlfriends have ROMANTIC feelings for each other. Remember, ROMANTIC feelings are different than friendly feelings. Boyfriends and girlfriends have known each other for a while, before making a commitment. It may take weeksRead More
What is dating?
Dating is when two people start spending time together doing activities and getting to know each other. Dating can help you DECIDE if you want to be a boyfriend or girlfriend to that person. ThisRead More
Sweethearts!
We wanted to talk about what a sweetheart REALLY is today. A sweetheart is a type of close and personal relationship, which is the relationship we have with the people we are CLOSEST to. SweetheartsRead More
Casual Relationships
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 a lot of people talkRead More
Friend Questions
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 a casual or working relationship.Read More
Are staff our true friends? NO.
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 when we said NO, staffRead More
Strangers from a staff perspective…
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 course is, “someone you haveRead More
Do you know what a stranger REALLY is?
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, “NEVER talk to strangers”, “strangersRead More
What a TRUE Friend Is…
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 few weeks. So let’s startRead More
Sexual assualt and abuse
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 it is for other adultsRead More