This webinar will discuss the importance of teaching healthy relationships and consent as part of comprehensive sexual health education. Centre for Sexuality will outline strategies to teach healthy communication and consent, and will explore methods to cultivate safe, supportive environments for learners. Trauma-informed approaches, as well as resources and activities, will be highlighted to support educators teaching healthy relationships and consent.
The Centre for Sexuality is a nationally recognized non-profit organization that provides comprehensive sexual health and healthy relationship education in schools, communities, and workplaces. They bring expertise and 49 years of experience in providing programs and services related to gender identity, sexual orientation, 2SLGBTQ+ inclusion, gender equity, sexuality, sexual health, healthy relationships, and consent. The Centre for Sexuality’s mandate is to use that expertise to build and deliver meaningful programs that change lives, communities, and systems.
Diana Wark is a social worker and has worked in the field of sexuality and sexual health for most of her career, which started in 1992. She has worked at the Centre for Sexuality since 2007 in several different roles. She is currently the Parent Programs Coordinator. Diana has a passion for supporting communities to have healthy relationships with the goal of supporting healthy sexuality across the lifespan.
Darren Silva is a Community Relationship and Sexual Health Educator. This role aligns with Darren’s passion for sexual health and prevention work within community spaces. Darren held a previous role at the Centre for Sexuality as a WiseGuyz Facilitator which took a specific focus with young men and how youth could build healthy understandings of masculinity with outcomes of violence prevention.
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