Sexuality Education
Our team of trained educators will visit your class, group, or organization to teach youth, ages 11 to 19, parents or adults about healthy sexuality and responsible decision-making. We can provide workshops on several topics, covering no more than two (2) topics per one-hour session. Some of our workshop topics are listed below.
Workshop Topics:
- Male & Female Anatomy & Physiology
- Puberty
- Menstruation
- Abstinence & Other Forms of Birth Control
- HIV/AIDS & Other Sexually Transmitted
- Communication & Dating Skills
- Sexual Decision-Making
- Self-esteem
- Health & Human Sexuality
- Violence Prevention & Conflict Resolution
- Planned Parenthood Services
Responsible Sex Education:
Planned Parenthood Helps Parents Teach Their Children How to Make Responsible Choices about Sex.
- Most parents want to teach their values to their children and want to be their children's main source of information about sex, but most parents want help.
- Planned Parenthood, like most Americans, supports responsible sex education in the schools to complement what parents can do at home because it is in the best interest of children.
- Americans know that keeping children ignorant about sex hurts them. Teaching children about abstinence AND safer sex sends teens a message of sexual responsibility.
When Teens are Given Honest Information, They Make Responsible Choices.
- Schools can help all students with a balanced approach that teaches abstinence along with facts about contraception.
- In recent years, condom use has risen and the rate of teen sexual activity has dropped. The result is a welcome decrease in teen pregnancy and teen births.
- 80% of the decline in teen pregnancy is a result of more effective contraceptive use and about 20% is a result of delayed sexual activity.
Most Americans Believe Responsible Sex Education is Important.
- Elected officials opposed to sex education are out of touch with the views of the vast majority of Americans. According to the most recent polling, 84% of voters support required sex education in school. Only 19% support "abstinence-only" education.
- Recent declines in rates of pregnancies and abortions are directly linked to effective programs like America's family planning program, Title X, and to medically accurate, responsible sex education.
- Programs teaching about abstinence, safer sex and responsible decision-making are the most effective. Abstinence-only programs actually are dishonest and harmful.
- When it comes to information about sex and birth control, the most recent polling data show that 57% of teens say 'adults tell teenagers things when it's too late.' Almost half say they don't have enough information about how to use or where to get birth control.
Fewer than 3% of parents choose not to allow their children to receive responsible sex education in school, when given the option.
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