Sexual Health Week
7-13 September 2026
It's Your Right

Sexual Health Week is the perfect excuse to host an event as part of your group or organisation.

It can be super simple or a creative extravaganza.

Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Host a morning tea where you chat about respectful relationships and sexual health facts.
• Run a trivia session with myth-busting questions about STIs, consent, and contraception.
• Set up a ‘Did You Know?’ poster wall with fast facts and QR codes to trusted resources.
• Create a youth scavenger hunt or quiz focused on safety, respect, and sexual health knowledge.
• Share a daily sexual health fact on your social media during the week.
• Include a quick myth vs fact section in your next newsletter or team update.
• Hand out ‘knowledge kits’ with resources, condoms, and helpful links at your workplace or school.
• Display SHW posters and brochures in shared spaces like kitchens, foyers or bathrooms.
• Invite a speaker or show a short video for a lunchtime info session on a sexual health topic.
• Host an event inviting people to share “one thing they wish they’d learned earlier” about sexual health.

Make sure to tag SHINE SA in your event promotion! A Campaign Toolkit will be available soon with posters and social media tiles.

See more information on our Community Grants Program below!

Celebrate Sexual Health Week with us!

Our Toolkit will be available soon, please contact marketing@shinesa.org.au.

Suggested captions include:

• Access to accurate, inclusive sexual and reproductive health information is a human right. This Sexual Health Week (7-13 September), join us in exploring how our rights, relationships and health are shaped by having access to the right information.

• Everyone deserves the right to healthcare without judgment, accurate information and to make choices about their own body. Because sexual health rights are human rights.

• It’s Sexual Health Week (7–13 September), this year’s theme, ‘It’s Your Right’ is a reminder that clear, inclusive and accessible information can help people feel confident and empowered when they make decisions about their bodies, their health, and their relationships.

• Everyone has the right to feel proud of who they are. Everyone belongs in sexual health conversations. Learn how you can get involved in the conversation this Sexual Health Week (7-13 September).

• Information about sexual health and relationships that actually works for you? Love that. This Sexual Health Week’s (7–13 September) theme is, ‘It’s Your Right,’ and it’s all about your right to clear, inclusive sexual health information that can help you feel confident when making decisions about your sexual health and relationship wellbeing.

• Your body, your choices, your rights. Join SHINE SA this Sexual Health Week (7-13 September) as we explore how our rights shape our relationships, health and wellbeing.

SHINE SA wants to support youth and community sector organisations/groups to get involved in this year’s Sexual Health Week. Be a part of raising awareness of sexual health and creating destigmatising conversations.

SHINE SA will provide five successful organisations with a $2,000 grant (inc gst) to host an event and where appropriate can provide resources (such as posters, Fact Sheets) and information.

Selection Criteria 

Grant recipients are chosen by SHINE SA.

We’re looking for events that:

• target 18–30-year-olds.
• clearly support this year’s theme, ‘The More You Know.
• include inclusive and accurate sexual health messaging.
• focus on young people and/or our priority communities including culturally and linguistically diverse people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+ people, people living with a disability, or people living in economically marginalised areas.
• empower young people to be involved and engage in sexual health and relationship wellbeing.
• have realistic goals and can be achieved with the grant funds.

Community grant information.