Let’s Talk About Sexual Health: Youth Focus

Course topics include:

• What is sexual health?
• Values, attitudes, and beliefs
• Aboriginal health
• Puberty
• The menstrual cycle
• Reproduction
• Contraception
• Pregnancy
• Respecting difference
• Sexual and gender diversity
• Healthy and unhealthy relationships
• Intimate partner violence
• Consent
• Sexting and pornography
• STIs and safer sex behaviours
• Services and support.

On completion of the course, you will have:

• the confidence to work with clients around relationships and sexual health
• an understanding of how values and beliefs may influence your practice and your clients’ responses to relationships and sexual health
• accurate and inclusive vocabulary about sexual health, gender, sexuality, anatomy, and relationships to use when working with your clients
• practical skills and knowledge to support clients with relationships and sexual health
• exposure to resources and ideas on how to use them effectively with clients to learn about relationships and sexual health.

This course is suitable for youth and community workers, counsellors, foster care workers, and anyone who works with young people.

Our Aboriginal Focus course is also available for those who work with Aboriginal young people.

• Certificate of Attendance