Upcoming Course in the Riverland

The FRESH course is coming to the Riverland (Take 2).

For all youthworkers, community health workers or others interested in addressing the sexual health needs of their client group the SHineSA sexual health course for workers is coming to you soon.

This three day course will cover such topics as:

• Sexuality & Sexual Health
• Sex & the Law
• Gender & Power
• Sexual Diversity
• Anatomy & Physiology
• Contraception
• Assessment option available.
• Pregnancy Options
• Sexual Violence
• Sexual Pleasure
• Safer Sex & Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Porn and young people

and  will be held at the Riverland Division of General Practice
3 Vaughan Court, Berri on 22–24 October (Mon–Wed)


Time: 9am – 5pm
Cost: $350

If you are working with young people at risk. If you are wondering how to support them as they make their way through adolescence. If you want to give yourself the skills and knowledge to address sexual health issues. This course will challenge your assumptions about the best way to do this.

For more information and to book your place contact:

Sharon Formosa on:

Tel: 8300 5317
Email: SHineSACourses@health.sa.gov.au
Webpage for enrolment info:
www.shinesa.org.au/go/workforce-development/the-fresh-course

Sexual Health Education - Its not just about what is happening here.

Don't forget that many young people want to know what is happening to other people in other parts of the world. Sexual Health and Relationships Education is not only about what happens in our own yard, but also what is happening in other parts of the world. Often examples like the one linked here will enhance the information that you deliver to young people.

"Peju Taofika and her three granddaughters inhabit a room in a typical apartment block known as a “Face Me, Face You” because whole families squeeze into 7-by-11-foot rooms along a narrow corridor. Up to 50 people share a kitchen, toilet and sink — though the pipes in the neighborhood often no longer carry water.
At Alapere Primary School, more than 100 students cram into most classrooms, two to a desk.
As graduates pour out of high schools and universities, Nigeria’s unemployment rate is nearly 50 percent for people in urban areas ages 15 to 24 — driving crime and discontent.

Across sub-Saharan Africa, alarmed governments have begun to act, often reversing longstanding policies that encouraged or accepted large families. Nigeria made contraceptives free last year, and officials are promoting smaller families as a key.
Nigeria, already the world’s sixth most populous nation with 167 million people, is a crucial test case, since its success or failure at bringing down birthrates will have outsize influence on the world’s population."

Go here to read more

great youtube video -sexual rights for all

Thanks to Patricia Weerakoon for putting this link on to our University of Sydney website.

EROTOPHOBIA

Have you ever heard this term ' erotophobia' before. It refers to our fear of teaching about pleasure in nour sexual health and relationships education. There is an argument that until we are able to discuss sex positive information, until we are able to eroticise our sexual health education we wont be fully providing our young people with enough knowledge, tools etc etc to make informed decisions regading thir own sexual health and relationships.

Here is an abstract from an article that outlines this thinking very well:

The pursuit of pleasure is one of the primary reasons people have sex; and sex is the most common way people contract HIV worldwide. Yet information about how to have (or deliver) pleasurable sex and stay healthy are largely missing from health resources and HIV prevention campaigns. Wendy Knerr and Anne Philpott explore how `erotophobia' in the health and development sectors is hindering effective safer sex promotion, and highlight best practices from The Global Mapping of Pleasure, 2nd Edition, a collection of case studies on pleasure and safer sex communication from countries and contexts around the world.Development (2009) 52, 95-100. doi:10.1057/dev.2008.79