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Educating About Abortion - Second Edition
by Peggy Brick and Bill Taverner

Educating about Abortion has educator-friendly lesson plans, complete with worksheets and handouts. The lessons are designed to actively engage individuals, to help them learn the facts, clarify their values, find resources, and make informed choices.

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Enseñando el Sexo Suguro
por Peggy Brick y Colegas; Traduccion por Adolfo Valiente Ballina

Enseñando el Sexo Seguro es una traducción de Teaching Safer Sex por Peggy Brick. Como la versión en inglés, las lecciones de Enseñando el Sexo Seguro envuelve activamente a los participantes, permitiendoles a enfocarse en el conocimiento, los actitudes y las habilidades que se necesita para practicar el sexo seguro.

Las caracteristicas del manual:
  • 22 lecciones interactivas, preparadas para usar
  • Más de 30 hojas de trabajo y papeles informaticas
  • Estrategias clasicas como "¡No la Pases!" y "Alineación para el Uso del Condón"
  • Tabla de Opciones Anticonceptivos
  • Como Hacer Uso de la Dramatización
Este manual fue traducido por Adolfo Ballina Valiente de la Fundación Mexicana para la Planeación Familiar (MEXFAM). Fue revisado por educadores prominentes de la sexualidad de diferentes nacionalidades Hispanas y miembros del Center For Family Life Education.

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Making Sense of Abstinence
Lessons for Comprehensive Sex Education
by Bill Taverner and Sue Montfort

"Making Sense of Abstinence succeeds brilliantly in making the topic of abstinence intelligent, thought-provoking, imaginative, respectful, and downright engaging. These lessons provide educators a much-needed opportunity to teach, not preach.

"Students will deeply appreciate the authors' willingness to be honest with them and to provide them with accurate and balanced information. They will learn that there is a long continuum of behaviors between "saying no" and "doing it" that will keep them safe, not sorry. Educators will feel more secure about teaching tough topics such as oral sex, masturbation and outercourse, when they see they are allied with discussion about personal values, decision-making and communication.

"The authors direct their lessons at educators of comprehensive sex education. But, some could surely fit into an abstinence-only program, offering a sliver of common ground upon which those with differing viewpoints about the content of sex education can stand. Let's salute Taverner and Montfort for this important effort to help all our teens get the complete information and protective skills they need and deserve to make smart, safe decisions."

–Susan N. Wilson, Former Executive Coordinator, Network for Family Life Education

16 LESSONS
  • MAKING SENSE OF ABSTINENCE
  • SO WHAT'S AN ABSTINENCE, ANYWAY?
  • THE ABSTINENCE LINEUP: So Much More than Just Say No
  • WHAT'S YOUR TAKE? Examining Opinions about Abstinence
  • HEY, MOM? HEY, DAD? (HEY…GRAM?) Can We Talk about Abstinence?
  • JUST SAY KNOW: Navigating Mixed Messages about "Sex"
  • EVERYONE DESERVES RESPECT: Looking at Abstinence and Stereotypes
  • MASTURBATION: A Touchy Subject
  • FIGURING OUT OUTERCOURSE
  • ORAL SEX AND ABSTINENCE: Examining the Role of Intimacy in Sexual Decisions
  • HANDLING HORNY: Savvy About Sexual Response
  • IS THE SLOPE THAT SLIPPERY?
  • READY OR NOT? Deciding about Sexual Behaviors
  • SAYING YES, SAYING NO
  • ABC...EASY AS 123?
  • SOME DAY: Making the Transition from Sexual Abstinence
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Positive Encounters
Supporting Healthy Contraceptive And Safer Sex Decisions
by Amy Vogelaar

"Positive encounters" are brief interactions between an advocate and a young person, which may or may not be part of an ongoing relationship. The interactions or encounters are characterized by honest and respectful communication about sexuality. These one-to-one interactions provide opportunities for an advocate to support a young person in making healthy decisions regarding all aspects of their sexual health. This resource is an essential reference for professionals who engage young people in one-to-one settings.

If you are a trainer, you will also be interested in the Positive Encounters workshop guide, with step-by-step procedures for facilitating a workshop to teach about Positive Encounters.

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Positive Images - Third Edition
Teaching Abstinence, Contraception, and Sexual Health
by Peggy Brick and Bill Taverner

This popular manual features 29 lessons for teaching about abstinence, contraception, and other aspects of sexual health. Useful for middle and high schools, colleges, church groups and youth-serving agencies.

Helps students:
  • Assess whether they are at risk for an unplanned pregnancy or sexually transmitted infection.
  • Build decision-making and communication skills.
  • Develop the ability to work with a partner to assume responsibility for contraception, safer sex, or abstinence.
Positive Images has:
  • 29 ready-to-use lessons
  • Contraceptive Options Chart
  • Over 50 handouts and interactive worksheets
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Streetwise to Sex-wise
Sexuality Education for High-Risk Youth - Second Edition
by Steve Brown and Bill Taverner

Streetwise to Sex-Wise provides an easy-to-use yet comprehensive model for a basic series on human sexuality for high-risk teens. It applies a "state-of-the-art" methodology of sexuality education to teens in non-traditional settings who often have limited academic skills and are resistant to classroom-based learning.

Lessons are divided into a series for older teens (ages 14-19) and a series for pre-teens and young teens (ages 9-13). All are simple, concrete and actively involve group members in the learning process. They extend beyond mere factual information and address attitudes, values, and skills, an approach that experts find is more likely to lead to positive behavior change in young people.

In addition, Streetwise to Sex-Wise provides background information on teaching education to high-risk teens, including profiles of the sexual-health concerns of four specific high-risk populations. This manual also includes a resource section of books, audio-visuals, and other teaching tools especially appropriate for high-risk youth.

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Teaching Safer Sex - Sold Out
Second Edition
by Peggy Brick and Colleagues

Helps people of all ages assess and reduce risky behavior. Focuses on the attitudes, values and skills needed to practice safer sex.

NEW EDITION COMING SOON!!!

Bodies, Birth & Babies

Sexuality Education in Early Childhood Programs

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Healthy Foundations

A step-by-step guide to help early childhood programs develop a sexuality policy

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Healthy Foundations: The Teacher's Manual

A practical guide to understanding and responding to young children's questions about sexuality

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New Methods for Puberty Education
by Carolyn Cooperman and Chuck Rhoades

30 classic lessons for teaching about all aspects of puberty, for grades 4-9

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