Right4me
The right people, knowledge, and options for your best life
Right4me
Right4me is a Canberra-based service for people who are autistic and/or have intellectual disability who want to build better relationships!
Disabled people have the same rights as everyone in our community to have fulfilling relationships (whether romantic, professional, platonic, or otherwise); to understand their bodies and feelings; and to be safe, happy, and connected. It can be difficult to get the right information, develop the right skills and find the right environments to succeed in this. That's where Right4me comes in!
Right4me offers individually tailored support to build your knowledge, skills, and confidence around self and relationships so that you can live your best life!
Our approach
Right4me has two main focus areas.
If it's to do with relationships, we can talk about it! Understanding respectful relationships, understanding dating, exploring your identity and feelings, LGBTQIA+ issues and relationships, sex, consent, public and private, puberty, contraception, you name it! Right4me's Relationship and Sexuality Education is rights-based, holistic, and LGBTQIA+ inclusive.
Right4me also offers Skills and Capacity Building for Education, Employment, or improved Quality of Life. We works in a way that supports your neurodivergent identity. Click through to find out more!
Our Services
The right people, knowledge, and options for YOUR best life
Strengths Profile
If you're amazing and you know it, clap your hands! Clients are supported to develop a Life Vision, set short- and long-term goals, and receive a personalised Strengths and Supports Profile that highlights just how awesome they are as a jumping off point for personal development.
Relationship & Sexuality Education
Did you know relationship and sexuality education (RSE)
for people with disability is a human right? Our RSE is rights-based, holistic, and inclusive of all orientations and identities. We tailor an education package to your needs and interests, with topics including respect and consent; understanding dating; exploring identity and feelings; protective behaviours; puberty; contraception; sexualised behaviours of concern, and more.
Capacity Building for School, Work & Life
With a background in both Education and Community Development, Tess is passionate about building on your existing strengths to build your skills and capacity. We create an inclusion plan that includes 1:1 work to develop your own skills and understanding; and where invited, can advise, support and/or train your workplace, school, or other setting to build their inclusion capacity, too.
Passport to Inclusion
A simple but powerful tool that fits in your wallet AND opens your world. We get to know you - the whole you - and then we squish what we've learnt into your passport. Share it with employers, teachers, whoever you like - it's a shortcut to knowing your interests, sensory preferences, communication needs, strategies that support you to feel safe, and more. You do you, babe! Leave the burden of explaining for the 500th time to us.
And there's more to come!
"We're going to need a bigger pipeline!" because there's SO much more coming your way!
Small group programs, dating events, professional development workshops for teachers and others, webinars and resources, and who knows what else!
To ensure you're first to hear about it, join our mailing list today. Don't worry, we don't email often, just when we have something important to share!
About Tess
Tess Yvanovich is an experienced educator, community development practitioner, and facilitator. She's taught students with disabilities in Canberra, in both mainstream and specialist settings; coached teachers in Rwanda; delivered capacity building programs for Canberra's multicultural community; co-facilitated a weekly social support group for gender and sexuality diverse young people aged 12-25; and supported the national rollout of a program to include students with disabilities in mainstream Rwandan schools.
In 2023, Tess was appointed to the ACT Disability Reference Group (DRG), the body that advises the ACT Government and Minister for Disability on disability inclusion issues. She also sits on the government's Disability Education Reference Group as the DRG's representative.
Tess is passionate about people with disabilities having the same opportunities as anyone else, and being able to fully participate as active, valued members of our community.
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