Healthy Sexuality

Resources To Educate Teens About Sexuality And Sexual Health

Vancouver Coastal Health is proud to offer teachers, school counselors, youth workers, and community health nurses this resource to support healthy adolescent development in our communities. The resource was developed in collaboration with high school students during the Parkgate Youth Sexual Health Project.

As teens move through their adolescence, romantic relationships become increasingly important. Adolescence is an important time to help teens develop healthy relationship skills. This module provides a foundation for understanding what healthy relationships look like.

Participants will:

In 1999, lesbians were identified as an underserved minority by the Institute of Medicine. Some health issues for lesbians are different from those of heterosexual women, and clinicians need to be aware of these differences in order to provide culturally-appropriate care, since at least 5% of their female patients are lesbian.

This website page is a  special collection and it's purpose is to provide resources and an introduction to reproductive justice, focusing particularly on the connections between the elimination of reproductive oppression and domestic and sexual violence.

Girls Action compiled these ressources in preparation for our Northern Light program, that took place the summer of 2008, in Whithorse Yukon. In the resource compilation you will find lists of community organizations, health centres, information and crisis lines, women’s shelters, youth groups, etc. They are organized by region.

Here is a list of recommended books on themes of disability (cognitive and physical), sexuality and sexual health.

In this article is summarize some of the main questions and concerns that need to be addressed before there is a full-scale rollout of an HPV vaccination program.

Canadians for Choice supports and worksd towards preventing unwanted pregnancies, promoting contraception, educating women, men and youth and ensuring families have the necessary resources to raise healthy, happy children.

This is a zine created by the Generation Five groupe and is meant to promote safe, positive and pleasurable sexuality.

 A groundbreaking study sheds light on a form of abuse in which men use coercion and birth control sabotage to cause their partners to become pregnant against their wills. The study, published in the January 2010 issue of Contraception, finds this kind of reproductive control to be especially common in relationships in which women experience physical or sexual partner violence.