The Josephine And Jack Project
Josephine & Jack are life-size cloth figures who we use in workshops with adults and young people with learning disabilities to discuss issues like health and well- being using storytelling and role-play.
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People with learning disabilities have the same right to choices about life and love as the rest of us – the issue is how to make sure that those choices can be made safely and with the information we all need.
Josephine & Jack are life-size anatomically accurate cloth figures who we use in workshops and one-to-one work with adults and young people with learning disabilities to discuss a range of issues such as health, well- being, relationships, sex and sexuality using storytelling, games and role-play in small groups.
Josephine was originally developed in 2004 by a group of women with learning disabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne. With the support of staff at arts organisation Them Wifies, they
created Josephine: a unique, life size anatomically accurate cloth woman, to be used to explore these topics. Jack, our male character, arrived in 2011. A user led approach is still at the heart of what we do.
Them Wifies closed in 2015 but since launching as an independent charity in September 2016, we have directly supported 450 individuals on 50 courses and have licensed out six Josephine and Jack figures across the UK and reaching over 1,000 people with learning disabilities overall.