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Teaching Sex-Ed: Healthy Relationships and Consent

November 2, 2023 @ 10:00 am. - 11:30 am.

This webinar will discuss the importance of teaching healthy relationships and consent as part of comprehensive sexual health education. Claire 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.

Organizer

Jasmin Ogren
Phone:
306-651-4308
Email:
jogren@skprevention.ca

Presenter

Claire Crooks
About:

Claire Crooks is a clinical psychologist and professor at the Faculty of Education (Western University). She is the Director of the Centre for School Mental Health, where she and her team develop, implement, and evaluate mental health promotion and violence prevention programs in a range of school and community settings. Claire’s research looks at the gaps between science, practice, and policy related to the healthy development of children and youth. Claire also co-directs the School Mental Health Ontario Innovation and Scale-Up Lab, which seeks to examine and advance evidence-based and implementation-sensitive approaches within school mental health and mobilize research and practice evidence to enhance the quality, consistency, scalability, and sustainability of mental health approaches in Ontario schools. Claire has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and provided testimony to various provincial and federal bodies on policy matters related to family violence, substance use, and mental health.

For more about Claire’s research projects, visit: www.csmh.uwo.ca/research/index.html.

Organizer

Jasmin Ogren
Phone:
306-651-4308
Email:
jogren@skprevention.ca
Saskatchewan Prevention Institute