teaching tools for sexual education
Sexual education is political The topic of sexual education continues to be discussed controversially in the media and politics. As practitioners, we do not like to use sexual education as a tool for political gain or to moralize about its content. Even when the public discussion focuses on positive elements Read more…
What is street-based youth work about? Street-based youth work is focusing on education of vulnerable groups. These vulnerable groups include young people with multifactorial needs in the main areas of sociability. Street-based youth workers meet young people on the street to identify urgent needs in the economic, educational and cultural Read more…
As Youtube is the most popular search engine on the internet, it also offers some great content, that teens could use for sex educational purposes, as well as professionals, to gather more information about current topics.
Here we would like to introduce you some channels that we find very resourceful.
When it comes to consent, a lot of people think it is the same as a compromise. But in fact: It isn’t. Consent means, that two parties just want the same.
We’d like to give you a little overview and some consent 101 from sexual educators.
Sometimes explaining the topic of Sexual Education to policiy makers or representatives of media and non-governmental organizations can be rather challenging. Here we’d like to share two approaches for that matter.
Many teachers, parents and youth workers ask for guidelines that show age appropriate approaches to that topic. Therefore the WHO teamed up with the Federal Centre for Health Education in Germany (BZgA) and developed and published a framework for Standards for sexual education in Europe.
A magazine can be a low-treshold approach towards sexual education. Therefore we published one about every day heroines.
Seit vielen Jahren ist die Telefonberatung von Rat auf Draht unter der Nummer 147 in Österreich bekannt. Kostenlos und anonym können dort Kinder und Jugendliche – aber auch deren Eltern, Großeltern, Verwandte, Lehrkräfte und Bezugspersonen anrufen.
Mitterlweile bietet Rat auf Draht aber auch Online- und Chat-Beratung an.
Boys* and Culture of Care is a project that aims to raise awareness about male children and adolescents as potential victims and victims of sexualized violence. The project trys to improve the support victims receive from professionals in schools, youth welfare services, sport centres, etc.
It is very easy to find information about sex online. But it is hard to find reliable information about sexuality online – espacially for teenagers or that is accessible for everyone.