Two experiences from the

Netherlands:

1. Respect Limits &

2. Website ‘seksindepraktijk.nl’

Renske Thalia Poelma (CHOICE)

1. Respect Limits: Intervention for early and adequate guidance for JSO

Juvenile sex offenders (JSO)• Boys, 12-18 years (juvenile court)• First-offenders• No (other) acts of violence• No disorders or addictions and

sexual disfunctions

Goal• Prevention of relapse• Encourage to change behaviour, by:

recognizing and respecting limits developing a different attitude and

adequate skills

• Key focus: healthy sexual behaviour

Reasons for sexual offence(according to the participants in the mandatory educational programme of Rutgers WPF, Hoïng et al 2007)

Juvenile sex offenders in the Netherlands can be sentenced to• Prison

• Juvenile institution, most of the time including treatment

• Ambulant treatment• Community service

order (working or learning) Learning: educational training

programme (‘Respect limits’) Responsibility for guidance and

surveillance by Child Protection Board

Respect limits;The intervention

• Approved by the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice (Accreditation Panel, 2012)

the programme:• meets the established quality requirements• the programme could results in reducing re-offending of

youth offenders

• 10, 15 or 20 individual sessions of 90 minutes each (face-to-face with a certified trainer) the amount of sessions depends on:

• the level of education • personal risk factors

• Parents are involved invited to the first and last session 1-3 meetings

2. New! Seksindepraktijk.nlWebsite for professionals

Seksindepraktijk.nl

• Tries to activate professionals to take up the issue of sexuality at every relevant occasion:• General practitioners• Primary Health Care Nurses• Midwives• Sexual health counselors • Care providers in care for the elderly• Professionals in Youth Care and Child Health

Care• Managers of residential institutions for people

with a disability

• We do this in cooperation with the professionals associations of the addressed professionals

Seksindepraktijk.nl

• Offers information on sexuality during the lifeline from conception till death:• STI/HIV• Pregnancy• Contraception• Sexual violence• Sexual dysfunctions• Disease and disability• Sexual orientation• Gender diversity

More information• We have submitted a EU/Daphne

proposal ‘Wise Guys’, based on Respect Limits. • Involved partner countries: Spain, Ireland, Greece and

Poland. • Associate partners from Portugal, Slowakia and Spain.

• Respect limits / Wise Guysm.jonker@rutgerswpf.nl

• Seksindepraktijk.nlp.vanhaastrecht@rutgerswpf.nl