Sexual Health in the Community
Duration: 3 hours
Recommended for: Youth and community workers, social workers, teachers, safeguarding teams.
Overview of session:
Everyone has a right to safe, confidential, accessible healthcare. This training provides professionals who work in the community with the skills to have practical and inclusive conversations about sexual health to support young people. By the end of the training, you will have a better understanding of sexual health policy and confidentiality guidelines. You will also take away technical knowledge, while being able to advise young people and signpost them to the correct agencies.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the session, you will be able to:
• Understand the importance and characteristics of a sex positive and inclusive approach to sexual health.
• Feel confident to talk about a range of contraceptive methods with young people and signpost them to appropriate services.
• Tell young people about the most common STIs, their symptoms, testing and treatment, signpost to services, and counter common myths and challenge STI stigma.
• Explain the benefits of barrier methods, tell young people about condom distribution schemes and carry out a condom demonstration.
• Recognise important safeguarding issues related to young people’s sexual health and wellbeing and be able to take a multiagency approach to keeping young people safe.
This training will be facilitated by Brook and delivered online via Zoom. You will be sent joining links/details nearer the time.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact bucks@brook.org.uk
