Sexuality
Online Safety for Children and Teens: A Comprehensive Guide to Staying Safe Online
https://cyberinsureone.com/online-safety
Sexuality and People with Disabilities
Impact: Feature Issue on Sexuality and People with Intellectual, Developmental and Other
Disabilities (Spring/Summer 2010, Vol. 23, No. 2) focuses on what it means to affirm and
support sexuality as a part of the lives of individuals with disabilities. The article topics
range from sexuality education in the home and school, to personal stories of dating and
marriage, to legal and ethical issues for staff and agencies providing services for people with
disabilities. Published by the Institute on Community Integration.
http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/232/
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Healthy Bodies (guide to puberty for children with disabilities):
http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/healthybodies/ ---------------------------------
Sexuality education and students with disabilities.
This resource page addresses the development of sexuality. There's so much to know and consider on this subject-what sexuality is, its meaning in adolescent and adult life, and the responsibilities that go along with exploring and experiencing one's own sexuality.
http://nichcy.org/schools-administrators/sexed
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Free middle and elementary school-focused curricula for sexual violence prevention:
o Facilitating Active Child Empowerment (addressing risk factors, doesn’t directly discuss SA or DV) –
elementary aged youth
http://www.pcar.org/sites/default/files/resourcepdfs/facilitating_active_child_empowerment-_new_direction_new_beginning.pdf
o Sexual Harassment Prevention in the Schools: A Facilitator’s Manual and Curriculum for Grades 1 through 12
(Objectives and lessons provided for each grade
K-12 Sexual Harassment prevention curriculum – we mentioned how this focus might be a better way to get into younger grades
http://www.pcar.org/sites/default/files/resource-pdfs/sexual-harassment-prevention-in-schools-curriculum-manual.pdfo
Teens and Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence: Where to Start? (11-session middle school curriculum)
http://www.pcar.org/sites/default/files/resourcepdfs/teens_and_primary_prevention_of_sexual_violence-_where_to_start.pdf
Building Healthy Teen Relationships (curriculum, grades 6 – 8, DV focus)
http://idvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Healthy-Relationships.pdf
Shifting Boundaries (curriculum, 6th & 7th grade)
General Curriculum:
http://www.nij.gov/topics/crime/intimate-partner-violence/teen-datingviolence/documents/shifting-boundaries-all-schools.pdf
About: https://www.crimesolutions.gov/ProgramDetails.aspx?ID=226
Full Curriculum and Implementation Guide:
· https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/236175.pdf
Cyberbullying / Online Safety Training Materials
NetSmartz is a great resource!
Download any of the internet safety presentations below (for adults, tweens, and teens). If you click on the “view online” option for all the presentations, the next screen will show you an option below the slides to “download presenter’s guide.” To download materials you’ll need to create an account – the presenter’s guide is automatically downloaded with the slides. I recommend downloading in the power point file so you can add your agency info and other changes as needed.
http://www.netsmartz.org/Presentations
Healthy sexuality resources
Sex Ed Library § Lesson plans by topic, many topics directly relate to sexual assault prevention (about a third are freely accessible, as an FYI anything with the source of FLASH costs money)
http://www.sexedlibrary.org/index.cfm?pageId=722
Parent-Child Communication Basics seminar (this might be a great starting session for adults because it’s about communication in general with teens, but builds on this as a protective factor for prevention)
General info: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/1209?task=view
Facilitator’s manual: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/591?task=view
Newsletter handouts on healthy sexuality for parents by age /grade level of children from 3 years old to 12th grade (in English and Spanish) § http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/589?task=view
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A Curriculum for Teaching Sexual Health
http://www.autism-society.org/news/a-curriculum-for-teaching.html
The book Intimate Relationships and Sexual Health provides a curriculum that instructors can use to teach adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders and other social challenges. Specifically, the curriculum is targeted to people with average to high cognitive abilities.
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Gentle Teaching - a non-violent approach for helping people with special needs that focuses
on helping them to feel safe and valued.
www.globe-star.org/gt.html (FACETS 6-23-11 Hub)
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Safety Awareness for Empowerment
An eight-module curriculum to teach self-care and community safety skills to youth,
particularly those with cognitive disabilities. Includes handouts, graphics, a board
game.
Topics include staying home alone, safe relationships, avoiding victimization, sexuality,
first aid and self defense.
319-page training guide, now available on CD.
Cost is $10, including shipping and handling.
Found on Waisman site - Products and Publication
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/
* PIER has this curriculum and training. Call or e-mail [email protected]
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Adolescent Health Care Communication Project
A training opportunity for adolescents and physicians, to engage in open, honest
and medically accurate discussions about sexual health with their health care
providers.
The ultimate goal is to improve communication between providers and adolescent
patients, to improve the delivery of sexual and reproductive health care to all
young people in Wisconsin.
WAHCCP - has 2 workshops:
"Keepin' It Real with Your Doctor"
"Keeping It Real with Your Patients"
For more information: Amy Olejniczak
[email protected] 608-251-1309 www.wahccp.org
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From: Child Mind Institiute
http://www.childmind.org/en/search/?q=teens+and+sex&s=Search
Why Don't We Trust Teens About Sex? In the New York Times, KJ Dellantonia casts a suspicious eye on new numbers from the Centers for Disease Control indicating a significant decrease in the sexual activity of teenagers
Talking to Your Kids About...Porn Parents have always struggled with how to talk with their kids about sex, but in a world where pornography is a mouse click away, the conversation is more complicated than ...
Sexy Education When I was attending New York City public schools in the 80s and 90s, I thought that the sex education offered was pretty good—which is to say uncomfortable, frightening ...
Skins: MTV's New Hit Parent Nightmare Monday nights just got more provocative with the premier of MTV's newest teen drama, Skins. The controversial show is earning the ire of many parents due to its gratuitous ...
Bipolar Teens More Likely to Have Risky Sex Teens in the manic phase of bipolar disorder, which is marked by dramatic mood swings, are more sexually active, have more sexual partners and are more likely to have STDs ...
When to Worry About Your Kid Having Sex Like it or not, it's a sexy world. The media ensures that children and adolescents are exposed to sex earlier than ever; girls are going through puberty earlier; and ...
'Skins': the Good, the Bad and the Honest It's been called "the most dangerous program that has ever been foisted on your children!" That's a characteristic bit of overstatement from the conservative media watchdog Parents Television ...
Teens, Drinking and Drugs Talk to any group of teenagers and you are likely to hear about stress: the pressure to achieve academically, to get into a good college, to be well-rounded, to be ...
A Different Kind of Sex Talk With Teens Americans and Europeans talk about teen sexuality in different ways. While American parents, advertisers and public-service announcements tend to be cautionary, those in Europe are more matter of fact and ...
Teens and Sex Talking to teenagers about sex has to be the most potentially embarrassing challenge of parenting—for both parents and kids. As a result, there is very little conversation about it ...
https://cyberinsureone.com/online-safety
Sexuality and People with Disabilities
Impact: Feature Issue on Sexuality and People with Intellectual, Developmental and Other
Disabilities (Spring/Summer 2010, Vol. 23, No. 2) focuses on what it means to affirm and
support sexuality as a part of the lives of individuals with disabilities. The article topics
range from sexuality education in the home and school, to personal stories of dating and
marriage, to legal and ethical issues for staff and agencies providing services for people with
disabilities. Published by the Institute on Community Integration.
http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/232/
---------------------------------
Healthy Bodies (guide to puberty for children with disabilities):
http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/healthybodies/ ---------------------------------
Sexuality education and students with disabilities.
This resource page addresses the development of sexuality. There's so much to know and consider on this subject-what sexuality is, its meaning in adolescent and adult life, and the responsibilities that go along with exploring and experiencing one's own sexuality.
http://nichcy.org/schools-administrators/sexed
---------------------------------
Free middle and elementary school-focused curricula for sexual violence prevention:
o Facilitating Active Child Empowerment (addressing risk factors, doesn’t directly discuss SA or DV) –
elementary aged youth
http://www.pcar.org/sites/default/files/resourcepdfs/facilitating_active_child_empowerment-_new_direction_new_beginning.pdf
o Sexual Harassment Prevention in the Schools: A Facilitator’s Manual and Curriculum for Grades 1 through 12
(Objectives and lessons provided for each grade
K-12 Sexual Harassment prevention curriculum – we mentioned how this focus might be a better way to get into younger grades
http://www.pcar.org/sites/default/files/resource-pdfs/sexual-harassment-prevention-in-schools-curriculum-manual.pdfo
Teens and Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence: Where to Start? (11-session middle school curriculum)
http://www.pcar.org/sites/default/files/resourcepdfs/teens_and_primary_prevention_of_sexual_violence-_where_to_start.pdf
Building Healthy Teen Relationships (curriculum, grades 6 – 8, DV focus)
http://idvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Healthy-Relationships.pdf
Shifting Boundaries (curriculum, 6th & 7th grade)
General Curriculum:
http://www.nij.gov/topics/crime/intimate-partner-violence/teen-datingviolence/documents/shifting-boundaries-all-schools.pdf
About: https://www.crimesolutions.gov/ProgramDetails.aspx?ID=226
Full Curriculum and Implementation Guide:
· https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/236175.pdf
Cyberbullying / Online Safety Training Materials
NetSmartz is a great resource!
Download any of the internet safety presentations below (for adults, tweens, and teens). If you click on the “view online” option for all the presentations, the next screen will show you an option below the slides to “download presenter’s guide.” To download materials you’ll need to create an account – the presenter’s guide is automatically downloaded with the slides. I recommend downloading in the power point file so you can add your agency info and other changes as needed.
http://www.netsmartz.org/Presentations
Healthy sexuality resources
Sex Ed Library § Lesson plans by topic, many topics directly relate to sexual assault prevention (about a third are freely accessible, as an FYI anything with the source of FLASH costs money)
http://www.sexedlibrary.org/index.cfm?pageId=722
Parent-Child Communication Basics seminar (this might be a great starting session for adults because it’s about communication in general with teens, but builds on this as a protective factor for prevention)
General info: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/1209?task=view
Facilitator’s manual: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/591?task=view
Newsletter handouts on healthy sexuality for parents by age /grade level of children from 3 years old to 12th grade (in English and Spanish) § http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/589?task=view
---------------------------------
A Curriculum for Teaching Sexual Health
http://www.autism-society.org/news/a-curriculum-for-teaching.html
The book Intimate Relationships and Sexual Health provides a curriculum that instructors can use to teach adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders and other social challenges. Specifically, the curriculum is targeted to people with average to high cognitive abilities.
---------------------------------
Gentle Teaching - a non-violent approach for helping people with special needs that focuses
on helping them to feel safe and valued.
www.globe-star.org/gt.html (FACETS 6-23-11 Hub)
----------------------------------
Safety Awareness for Empowerment
An eight-module curriculum to teach self-care and community safety skills to youth,
particularly those with cognitive disabilities. Includes handouts, graphics, a board
game.
Topics include staying home alone, safe relationships, avoiding victimization, sexuality,
first aid and self defense.
319-page training guide, now available on CD.
Cost is $10, including shipping and handling.
Found on Waisman site - Products and Publication
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/
* PIER has this curriculum and training. Call or e-mail [email protected]
----------------------------------
Adolescent Health Care Communication Project
A training opportunity for adolescents and physicians, to engage in open, honest
and medically accurate discussions about sexual health with their health care
providers.
The ultimate goal is to improve communication between providers and adolescent
patients, to improve the delivery of sexual and reproductive health care to all
young people in Wisconsin.
WAHCCP - has 2 workshops:
"Keepin' It Real with Your Doctor"
"Keeping It Real with Your Patients"
For more information: Amy Olejniczak
[email protected] 608-251-1309 www.wahccp.org
----------------------------------
From: Child Mind Institiute
http://www.childmind.org/en/search/?q=teens+and+sex&s=Search
Why Don't We Trust Teens About Sex? In the New York Times, KJ Dellantonia casts a suspicious eye on new numbers from the Centers for Disease Control indicating a significant decrease in the sexual activity of teenagers
Talking to Your Kids About...Porn Parents have always struggled with how to talk with their kids about sex, but in a world where pornography is a mouse click away, the conversation is more complicated than ...
Sexy Education When I was attending New York City public schools in the 80s and 90s, I thought that the sex education offered was pretty good—which is to say uncomfortable, frightening ...
Skins: MTV's New Hit Parent Nightmare Monday nights just got more provocative with the premier of MTV's newest teen drama, Skins. The controversial show is earning the ire of many parents due to its gratuitous ...
Bipolar Teens More Likely to Have Risky Sex Teens in the manic phase of bipolar disorder, which is marked by dramatic mood swings, are more sexually active, have more sexual partners and are more likely to have STDs ...
When to Worry About Your Kid Having Sex Like it or not, it's a sexy world. The media ensures that children and adolescents are exposed to sex earlier than ever; girls are going through puberty earlier; and ...
'Skins': the Good, the Bad and the Honest It's been called "the most dangerous program that has ever been foisted on your children!" That's a characteristic bit of overstatement from the conservative media watchdog Parents Television ...
Teens, Drinking and Drugs Talk to any group of teenagers and you are likely to hear about stress: the pressure to achieve academically, to get into a good college, to be well-rounded, to be ...
A Different Kind of Sex Talk With Teens Americans and Europeans talk about teen sexuality in different ways. While American parents, advertisers and public-service announcements tend to be cautionary, those in Europe are more matter of fact and ...
Teens and Sex Talking to teenagers about sex has to be the most potentially embarrassing challenge of parenting—for both parents and kids. As a result, there is very little conversation about it ...
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You are encouraged to confirm all information with other sources and a physician. If you have health concerns, please call or see a qualified health care provider without delay. .
We do not endorse any treatments, providers, or product information in this site.
As with any program - we strongly encourage you to thoroughly check out references.