The Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education, developed by a national task force of experts in the fields of adolescent development, health care, and education, provide a framework of the key concepts topics, and messages that all sexuality education programs would ideally include.
Teaching sexual communication skills is an important component of sex education. Without the ability to communicate about sexual health, young people are not able to make and follow through on healthy decisions and may be put at risk of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Classroom settings are limited in their ability to illustrate what healthy communication between partners looks like in real-life situations.
This is the 27th NCSH quarterly social media campaign, which includes sample sexual health content that you can use and/or adapt for your digital and social media channels. We hope you will share this campaign with social media staff within your organization. We have formatted this content for Twitter, but it can be adapted for Facebook as well. Our theme for this campaign is telehealth for sexual health. It includes tweets relating to telehealth for sexual health care generally, and telehealth for birth control, HIV prevention and care, and STI care.
A patchwork of laws relating to sex education exist across the country, with varying requirements. In some states, this has meant a lack of access to sex education or certain components of sex education, and in many other states no access to comprehensive sexuality education for young people. In response to the lack of uniformity in laws and policies regarding sex education across the nation, the following series of tables has been developed to assist with clarifying the state of sex education, HIV/STI instruction, and healthy relationships instruction in the United States.
These colorful graphics provide easy-to-digest information on a variety of sexual health topics which you can share via social media, including instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
This document examines the different levels of risk for spreading the COVID-19 virus with partners within your home, and how can you can lower your potential risk of spreading or acquiring the virus.
This manual is a comprehensive guide to help teen pregnancy prevention program managers employ science-based approaches as they (1) plan and set goals for prevention programs, (2) develop and conduct process and outcome evaluations of programs, and (3) learn ways to improve and sustain programs that are reaching outcomes.
This information sheet provides information and guidelines for talking with young people with disabilities about their sexuality and sexual health. Selected recommended resources for educators are included.
