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Conference materials from the 4th Annual Comprehensive Sexuality Education Conference held on Tuesday April 14, 2009 in Augusta, Maine A publication you need: The Simple FACTS of Life FACTS: A practical guide on healthy sexuality for parents, teachers, and caregivers. What is Family Life Education?Comprehensive Family Life Education provides accurate information about human sexuality, including growth and development, human reproduction, anatomy and physiology, abstinence, family life, pregnancy and parenthood, sexual orientation, contraception, sexual abuse, and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS. A comprehensive, age-appropriate Family Life Education program respects the diversity of values and beliefs represented in the community. Comprehensive Sexuality Education is intended to complement and augment the sexuality education that children receive from their parents. These programs are developed by local schools in each community to suit their specific needs. Comprehensive Family Life Education works. These programs, which include life skills, sexuality education, and abstinence are the most effective in delaying the onset of intercourse and increasing the use of reliable forms of contraception. Maine people support Family Life Education programs. The State of Maine Bureau of Health has promoted comprehensive Family Life Education since 1979. Community surveys consistently show that an overwhelming majority of Mainers want young people to receive the full range of information to keep them healthy and safe.Teaching only abstinence-until-marriage censors life-saving information and does not decrease sexual activity among adolescents. Comprehensive Family Life Education in the schools works. Evaluations of age-appropriate, abstinence-based, responsible sexuality education have shown that such programs work. Research shows that programs that focus on HIV prevention and teen pregnancy:
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Family Life EducatorsContact the Maine Family Planning Family Life Educator in your area.Sexuality Education Materials:ORDER ONLINE: Promoting Healthy Sexuality (PHS).You can place an online order for issues of PHS! The above link will take you to information about and how to order this respected and widely-used resource guide for educators. It is available four volumes: Grades K-3, Grades 4-6, Grades 7-8, and Grades 9-12. Parents Matter: The research and resources on this website provide practical talking points, useful facts, and valuable resources to help parents talk with their children about relationships, love, sex and abstinence. For more information, visit the Parents Matter website. Youth Risk Behavior Survey ResultsThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) monitors six categories of health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults, including sexual behavior. Go to the YRBS website and read the results. Compared with other states, Maine is doing well: --> Maine has the highest rate of oral contraceptive use among sexually active teens.--> More sexually active Maine teens are using condoms than ever before. --> Maine has one of the lowest teen pregnancy rates in the United States - the third lowest teen pregnancy rate for females of all races ages 15-19 in the nation. --> Maine experienced the sharpest decline in teen births during the 1990s. |
