How to get consent.
How to give consent.
How to practice consent.
Consent skill-building
Comprehensive Consent goes beyond what consent is and isn’t.
We build students’ consent skills and give them real-world practice in navigating interpersonal interactions.
By empowering young people in their body rights and developing their social-emotional consent skills, Comprehensive Consent’s mission is to help nurture a generation of students who embody consent values and who are guided by their commitment to mutual respect for all people.
Elementary School
For elementary schoolers, Comprehensive Consent focuses on skill-building. When a student has consent skills, they can reliably and confidently tune in to their body’s cues, ask for permission, communicate their boundaries and interests, handle rejection with grace, and take accountability for their missteps.
Introducing consent and body boundaries to kids as social-emotional skills allows them to practice consent when the stakes are low so that they’re prepared when the stakes are high. This allows them to internalize consent as a value that supports kindness and respect, rather than an awkward or intimidating legality that they have to get right.
Middle & High School
As kids begin puberty, schools and parents tend to focus on consent in terms of protecting against sexual violence and the legal consequences of consent violations.
While these are essential learnings, knowing the laws around consent and “how to get consent” hasn't been effective in reducing sexual violence and increasing consent practices.
At the middle and high school level, Comprehensive Consent builds students’ social-emotional consent skills by using research-informed methods to give tweens and teens the space to explore their own perspectives on consent practices.
This allows students to think critically and self-generate answers on how to treat themselves and others.
College and University
You’re likely here because you want to provide your current students or incoming freshmen with the knowledge and skills for safe sexual interactions.
You want your students to have access to consent programming that’s engaging, relevant to their lives, and improves their ability to make safe, smart, and thoughtful decisions, now and in the future. We want that, too, and we’re here to help.