Join this grassroots campaign to visit principals and promote sex education in the 2009-2010 school year!
Planned Parenthood of New York City promotes comprehensive sex education in schools as an important way -- along with parental guidance -- to help young people to lead sexually healthy and responsible lives. We:
- assist schools in developing and delivering medically accurate, age-appropriate sex education curricula.
- bring to schools our "Taking Care of You" workshops which cover topics such as abstinence, contraception, prevention of sexually transmitted infections including HIV, sexual orientation, healthy relationships, and many other concerns.
- offer performances by our award-winning peer educators, the Teen Advocates, who perform interactive skits about the sexual and reproductive health issues that figure in teens' lives.
- conduct workshops from the Gurlz Talk and FELLAS series, which educate adolescents about healthy relationships, sexual responsibility, and pregnancy prevention.
- offer workshops led by our Adult Role Models -- community members trained to show parents, teachers, and other trusted adults how to talk with kids about sex in a comfortable and informed way.
- provide trainings that can help educators to hone their knowledge and skills for teaching about sexual and reproductive health.
- advocate for funding and legislation to support comprehensive sex education in New York schools.
To bring a workshop for a youth audience to your school, call (212) 965-4834.
To bring a workshop for an adult audience to your school, call (212) 274-7362.
To see what you can do to support and improve sex education in New York schools, inform yourself about the "We're Going to the Principal's Office" campaign or call (212) 274-7312.
For assistance with sex education curricula or for other inquiries, call (212) 274-7334.
