Boundaries and Personal Safety
This unit gives students strategies to stay safe and how to help prevent violence against them. We review bullying and define assault and abuse.
Decision-Making
Welcome to Decision-Making. This unit helps students learn how to make healthy and safe decisions in their lives.
Emotions
Welcome to Emotions. In this unit, students explore a wide range of emotions with a focus on happiness, anger, sadness and fear / anxiety. We want students to be able...
Friendships
This unit is all about making friends and sustaining existing friendships. Students learn about boundaries in friendships, managing conflicts, social dilemmas, peer pressure and red flags.
Fundamental Boundaries
In this unit students learn how to firmly set a boundary, how to get and give consent, and that they and others have the right to set boundaries for touch, their possessions, what people . . .
Healthy Relationships
In Healthy Relationships, students learn the five elements of a healthy relationship: Trust, Support, Communication, Respect, and Healthy Boundaries. These elements are explored in friendships . . .
I Matter
I Matter is the first main unit in the Whole Selves I curriculum. Students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, like all students, need guidance developing self-esteem...
Knowing Yourself
Throughout the Knowing Yourself unit, students will have an opportunity to further explore their personal interests, abilities, character, and feelings. This unit has compiled...
Navigating Sexual Relationships
In this unit we review enthusiastic consent, reproductive anatomy, and masturbation. We clarify what sex is, talk about sexual safety, birth control, STIs, and pregnancy. We teach that . . .
Puberty
Welcome to Puberty. This comprehensive unit consists of 12 lessons that teach students about their bodies, feelings, and thoughts as they . . .
Public and Private
In this unit, students learn the difference between public and private places, activities, and topics and that their whole body is private.
Romantic Relationships and Dating
In this unit students learn the steps of dating and that attraction is usually the first step. They learn about sexual orientation, red flags in romantic . . .
Self-Advocacy
Welcome to Self-Advocacy. In this unit, students learn to speak up for themselves. The meaning and importance of self-advocacy is taught first, before students learn specific steps that can help them . . .
Self-Care
In the Self-Care unit of Whole Selves I, students learn to take care of their physical, mental, and emotional health. The unit begins by teaching self-care of the body where students....
Setting the Tone
Welcome to Whole Selves: Setting the Tone! This unit is made up of four fun and engaging lessons that will serve as an introduction to the class. Here, your student(s) will preview...
Types of Relationships
In this unit, students explore and categorize the types of relationships in their lives. They also learn that each type of relationship comes with its own set of Boundaries.
What I’ve Learned
In this short unit, students spend time reviewing and reflecting on the many topics covered in Whole Selves.
What is Whole Selves II?
Welcome to Whole Selves℠ II! This unit is made up of four engaging lessons that serve as an introduction to the second part of the Whole Selves℠ curriculum. Here students will . . .