Sexual Health Ed and Centering Autonomy for Youth/Adults with SN

Schedule

Wed Apr 02 2025 at 09:00 am to 03:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Beban Park | Nanaimo, BC

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A full day workshop for (foster)parents, EAs, teachers, social workers, caregivers, and grandparents raising grandchildren.
About this Event

Sexual Health Education for Youth/Adults with Support Needs

In this workshop you will learn about...

1. What is sexuality?

2. The Circles of Sexuality

3. Messaging directed towards youth/adults with support needs

4. Why teach sexual health education to teens/adults with support needs?

5. Risk factors

6. Teaching to chronological age as opposed to cognitive age.

7. What teens/adults need to know and when

8. Modifying sexuality topics

9. Delivery methods

10. Resources, books, Apps, etc.

11. Troubleshooting sexual behaviours

Kerri Isham is a knowledgeable, experienced and passionate educator, coach and facilitator dedicated to excellence and committed to the empowerment of people of all ages. Her primary goal is to make exploring sexual health fun and meaningful, and to alleviate the shame and embarrassment sometimes associated with this topic.

Currently, she runs her own company called Power Up Education specializing in sexual health education for preschool to Grade 12. Her three main areas of focus are sexual abuse prevention, supporting children, youth and adults with support needs and the impact of pornography viewing on children and youth. Kerri completed the Sexual Health Educator’s Certification program in June 2011 with Options for Sexual Health in Vancouver


Centering Autonomy for Youth and Adults with Support Needs

  1. Exploration of concepts and paradigms
  2. Honoring different functional abilities and neurotypes
  3. Strategies and Tools
  4. Q+A and Resources

Jen is a multiply neurodivergent human with two twice-exceptional kiddos and a neurodivergent spouse. When they couldn't find "intervention" and respite supports that fit their family, they decided to use their former nursing and autism services backgrounds (as well as their lived AuDHD experience) to help families like their own.Though Jen is experienced in applied behaviour analysis, we don't use classic ABA intervention techniques in our work. Our philosophy of care leans heavily into Ross Greene's philosophy that "kids do well when they can". We rely a lot on (safe) natural consequences, risk mitigation, personal sensory-based care planning, and autonomy based supports wherever possible. We all have a right to enthusiastic, informed consent, bodily autonomy, and self-determination, regardless of our functional capacities or age.

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Where is it happening?

Beban Park, 2300 Bowen Road, Nanaimo, Canada

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Tickets

CAD 97.00

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