Education for People with Disabilities

Sexual hygiene lessons discuss the concept of hygiene and how it relates to sexual health. Hygiene guidelines will focus on particular practices surrounding the reproductive systems, including the products one should use to take care of their bodies and the hygiene practices one should follow during menstruation.

Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology lessons introduce human reproductive systems using age-appropriate, medically accurate terms. Students will learn the names and functions of all body parts included in assigned-male, assigned-female, and intersex bodies.  

Students will learn that puberty is a time when bodies experience many physical and emotional changes. Bodies change from being child-like to becoming an adult, and these changes happen in stages that a person can predict and prepare for.  This session will review these changes and discuss how someone can adjust to and prepare for these changes.  

Healthy Relationships lessons focus on developing healthy peer and romantic relationships and include information on communication and boundaries. Through engaging activities and peer-to-peer dialogue students will learn how to identify healthy, unhealthy, and abusive behaviors, and support those in their lives in unhealthy or abusive relationships. 

Managing Sexual Feelings lessons focus on discussing how someone manages feelings in public and private spaces. Sexual expression is defined and students will explore different situations and ways to manage sexual feelings. Students will differentiate between feelings that can be expressed publicly and privately and how to respect boundaries pertaining to sexual expression.

Sexual Decision Making lessons introduce students to what the decision-making process is and what the process for making any kind of decision could look like. Through engaging activities and peer-to-peer dialogue students will understand why it’s important for people to think carefully when making the decision to be sexually active, and what some of the specific questions a person might want to ask/answer before making the decision to be sexually active.  

Consent lessons focus on exploring boundaries and developing strong communication skills. Through engaging activities and peer-to-peer dialogue, students will learn what consent is, why consent is important, and how to navigate consent with increasing nuance through the lifespan. 

Abuse Prevention lessons provides abuse intervention and prevention services, including information about internet safety. We offer an overview of child sexual abuse, providing students with information and resources to report and inform a trusted adult. The focus is to prevent and reduce the risk of abuse, whether that be physical, sexual, emotional, or via the internet. 

Students will learn the biology behind how pregnancies can happen using medically-accurate terms. This lesson will also review the different ways that a person can start a family and how the process of reproduction works.

Birth Control and Sexual Protection (BC/SP) lessons introduce students to the most common and accessible BC/SP methods. Through engaging activities and peer-to-peer dialogue students will learn how each method works, where to find reliable information for further learning, and how to access the methods in their community.  

Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) lessons introduce students to the most common sexually transmitted infections. Through engaging activities and peer-to-peer dialogue students will learn how STIs are transmitted and how to use abstinence and/or barrier methods to prevent transmission.