Young Women Know
Young Women Know
Young Women Know is designed to tackle unhealthy relationships and peer sexual abuse through peer-led campaigns.
Young Women Know is delivered by The Young Women’s Movement.
In partnership with Dundee City Council, Perth and Kinross Council and Angus Council and NSPCC Scotland, we worked with young women to create resources around healthy relationships, safe spaces and consent.
We are now working with a group of young women aged 16-18 from across Scotland who have become National Champions that will support the design and delivery of the national Young Women Know campaign.
Sheila McKechnie Award
Resources for young people
Consent for young people
Resources to help young people understand what consent is, on and offline, and where to go for help if needed
Resources for professionals
Video Resources
The focus of this year’s work was to support four groups of young women, aged 16-18 in schools and community settings, to explore prevention-based content including online safety, consent and reporting, AI imagery and videography and online misogyny.
They were supported by us at The Young Women’s Movement and a young woman content creator to develop and co-design TikTok and YouTube style videos for a social media campaign. They are intended as ‘conversation starters’ for practitioners to introduce discussion around VAWG prevention in an online space – we want these to be the starting point for deeper conversations with young people.
They are also for young women too. In an increasingly online world, they felt that young women needed to better understand how the topics of healthy relationships, consent and safety operate in online contexts. The videos are split across four main themes and seek to empower us to reject all forms of online violence against women and girls.
Online comments don’t stay online
AI can be dangerous
We need to challenge misogyny online
How to stay safe online
Brave Lassies Blether Videos
This video series was made as part of the local Young Women Know campaign, Brave Lassies Blether. Young women asked support organisations about how young people can access their services.
Accessing Support:
Hear Me
Accessing Support:
LGBT Youth Scotland
Accessing Support:
Childline (NSPCC Scotland)
Accessing Support:
Rape Crisis Scotland
Accessing Support:
Sandyford
Printable poster
Download and print an A3 poster to display in your school, workplace or other setting to direct people to the Young Women Know resources.
Local campaigns
Through Young Women Know, we worked with three local campaign groups of young women aged 16-18 to develop campaigns and create toolkits to support young people in their understanding of healthy relationships, consent and safe spaces.
Find out more about the three campaigns:
