Sexuality Education Training for Parents of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Parents are often responsible for educating their children about sexuality, yet many parents may not be prepared to teach these topics. Sexuality education is critical for children with intellectual disabilities, who may be vulnerable to sexual abuse and sexual behavior outcomes. Families can learn to educate their child about sexuality.

Sex Ed

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SEA Change in Sex Education Through Community

Microskills Videos

A Powerful Technology for Sexuality Educator Training

FREE Sex Ed Networking Session

Creating Cultures of Consent

What Parents and Educators Need to Know

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Zoom Skills for Sexuality Educators

As sexual health professionals, we have critical content to share with our audiences! And given the many roles we juggle, we may not have received time, support, and strategies to amplify our facilitation skills, as it relates to preparing for and creating thought-provoking learning spaces. This lecture will dive into practical approaches to feel MORE than ready and set to facilitate!

Helping Doctors and Other Healthcare Providers Talk about Sex

Patients bring sexual health concerns to their doctor. Many medical professionals want to help their patients, but were not trained on how to have conversations about sex and sexuality. This lecture will address how to educate doctors to take an effective sexual history and address patient sexual health concerns.

Building Capacity for Sexual Consent

Discussions of consent are a vital part of sexuality education, and this is no different for people with disabilities. Protection from exploitation must be balanced against the right to sexual expression, with an emphasis on building a person’s capacity to give informed consent. This lecture will examine several models for determining sexual consent. Participants will apply consent criteria to several case studies and discuss strategies for improving a person’s consent abilities.

1:1 Sex Ed as the Foundation of Sex Coaching

Sex coaching is based on the foundation of competent 1:1 sex education. Using a humanistic sexological approach (with sample cases), this lecture presents how to apply the Britton MEBES© system to create comprehensive assessments of clients’ blockages then craft effective action steps toward resolution and healing for clients’ sexual fulfillment.

Wheel of Context for Sexuality Education

In our roles as sexuality educators, we often face opposing forces within the community. Wheel of context offers a framework for sexuality education given by activists, advocates, and practitioners on the ground. Informed by a global perspective, and anyone can customize it to their own setting.

Sex Points

Finally, An Easy Roadmap to a Biopsychosocial Model of Female Sexuality

It is essential for sex educators to have complete information about the physiological and medical components of women’s sexuality. This lecture, based on the new book Sex Points: Reclaim Your Sex Life with the Revolutionary Multipoint System, covers these areas clearly and provides proven behavioral and psychological insights that women, at every age, should know to feel empowered in their sex lives.

Sex Ed Jeopardy

The Sex Lives of College Students

Three Decades of Attitudes and Behaviors

This presentation will highlight the results of a human sexuality survey administered over the past 30 years to thousands of University of Maine college students. Responses by nearly 7,000 college students between the ages of 18-22 will be presented, including attitudes and behaviors, as well as trends over time.

The Science of Babies

Getting Early Childhood Sexuality Education Right

Adults in the US often misinterpret the spontaneous questions young kids ask about their origins as being about “sex,” when in reality children are simply wondering out loud about scientific ideas related to time, space, movement, and causation. As a result, parents and schools end up teaching even the most basic of concepts about human reproduction years after children are “ready.”

Sex Ed Lessons from COVID-19

Despite a multitude of challenges presented by the pandemic, sexuality educators have found innovative ways to reach youth and adults with information and skills needed to make healthy decisions about their sexual health, link them to services, and advocate on their behalf. This presentation summarizes tips and recommendations gathered from a survey of 51 sexuality educators.

Demystifying Surrogate Partner Therapy

Surrogate Partner Therapy. Many people have never heard of it. Even when someone has heard of it, it is often misrepresented and misunderstood. In this presentation, an experienced surrogate partner takes us beyond media portrayals, reviewing both the specifics of this modality and its healing potential.

Barriers to Sex Education

A Disability Perspective

People with disabilities face numerous barriers in their lifetime, including structural, social, and political. The phrase “nothing about us without us” truly  applies when addressing accessibility and sex education. By using a universal design model, presentations and materials become accessible to a broader audience, including those with and without disabilities.

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