Have you wanted to provide sexual health information to the young people you work with, but aren't sure how to start?
That's exactly why we designed the Sex Education Professional Learning Series. This six-part series is made to give you the knowledge, skills, and confidence to incorporate sexual health content in your classrooms, community-based organization, health clinic, summer camp...where ever you are serving young people.
Example Curriculum
Module 1: Professional Disposition
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- Introduction (2:06)
- Notecatcher
- What are "values"? (0:15)
- Personal and universal values (2:14)
- Values clarification exercise
- How we express our values, pt. 1 (0:36)
- How we express our values, pt. 2 (1:30)
- Responding to students' value-based comments and questions (2:05)
- Values summary (0:56)
- Disclosure and professional boundaries (0:56)
- Professional boundaries handout
- Why disclosure is not helpful (2:17)
- Active and passive disclosure (2:31)
- Summary and closing (0:47)
- Evaluation
Module 2: Best Practices in Sex Education
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- Introduction (0:56)
- Notecatcher
- Inclusive and affirming learning environments (1:25)
- Techniques to establish an inclusive and affirming environment (1:32)
- Trauma-informed approaches (1:44)
- Strategies for applying a trauma-informed lens (4:50)
- Establishing rapport in the classroom
- Language (2:36)
- Types of challenging questions (1:31)
- Tips for responding to challenging questions (2:14)
- Skill building exercise and closing (1:08)
- Evaluation
Module 3: Key Content Area - Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships
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- Introduction (1:46)
- Notecatcher
- Transition to key content areas (1:09)
- Signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships (5:34)
- Feelings and communicating in relationships (2:51)
- Active listening: how to communicate effectively
- Communicating through technology (1:51)
- Helping students establish personal boundaries (2:34)
- Consent (1:06)
- Tea consent
- Teaching and modeling consent (0:47)
- Bodily autonomy (4:07)
- Being a trusted adult
- Consent scenarios (2:37)
- Policies related to sex trafficking and sexual abuse (1:12)
- Shared Google resource list
- Summary and closing (0:27)
- Evaluation
Module 4: Key Content Area - LGBQ+ and Transgender and Gender Expansive Identities
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- Introduction (4:20)
- Notecatcher
- The gender unicorn (2:23)
- Gender identity (4:00)
- Sexuality and sexual identities (2:09)
- Language skills building (4:38)
- LGBTQ discrimination (2:10)
- LGBTQ health disparities (3:58)
- Using sensitive and inclusive language, pt.1 (0:32)
- Using sensitive and inclusive language, pt.2 (1:15)
- Creating a safe space (3:26)
- Resources and support (2:02)
- Support skills building (4:43)
- Summary and closing (1:10)
- Evaluation
Module 5: Key Content Area - Puberty and Adolescent Development and Sexual and Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology
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- Introduction (2:01)
- Notecatcher
- Puberty 101 (3:17)
- Physical, social, and emotional changes of puberty (6:06)
- Maintaining healthy habits and adolescent development (6:25)
- Sexual and reproductive anatomy for those assigned male at birth (4:44)
- Sexual and reproductive anatomy for those assigned female at birth (4:49)
- Hymens and genital diversity (2:18)
- Importance of medically accurate language (1:46)
- Summary and closing (1:17)
- Evaluation
Module 6: Contraception, pregnancy, and reproduction and HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
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- Introduction (1:55)
- Notecatcher
- Pregnancy and reproduction (2:40)
- Pregnancy and reproduction continued
- Barrier birth control methods (5:50)
- Hormonal birth control methods (6:59)
- Emergency contraception (2:06)
- Behavioral birth control methods (1:31)
- Contraception quiz
- Contraception quiz (answers w/explanations)
- STIs and HIV (8:06)
- STI and HIV Testing (0:59)
- Medical advances in STI and HIV prevention (3:16)
- Youth friendly sexual health services (1:12)
- Shared Google resource list
- Summary and closing (1:07)
- Evaluation
Join us online
The Sex Education Professional Learning Series is made possible with generous funding from the Central Alabama Community Foundation. The six-part series is available entirely online, and you can work through it at your own pace. Each module is approximately one hour with lectures and personal activities. At the end of each module you will receive a certificate of completion, which you can use to obtain educator CEUs with your school.
