It's That Easy! The Caring Adult's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children
If you work with parents of children ages 0-18, you are in a unique position to support them in their role as sexuality educators for their children. Considering that not all parents are comfortable talking about the birds and the bees, it can be a parent educator's job to answer the difficult questions and help guide the way. To make your job a little easier, MOAPPP worked with a group of experienced parent educators and community partners* to develop It's That Easy! The Caring Adult's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children.
This two-day interactive training, lead by experienced parent educators, offers tools and techniques for parent educators to use with parents. Through experiential learning, participants explore the theories, research, and best practices that promote healthy sexual development. Specifically, the following core components or topic areas are addressed:
- attachment
- parent-child connectedness
- child and adolescent development
- sexual violence prevention
- cultural values, morals and beliefs
- media and popular culture
Participants leave the training with an increased understanding of the fundamentals of these topic areas and how they relate to raising sexually healthy children. In addition, each participant receives the It's That Easy resource manual. This comprehensive guide includes sample activities, lesson plans and valuable resources to help educators work with parents in your own community. Learn more at www.itsthateasy.org.
Training Dates and Details
September 27-28, 2010
It's That Easy! Parent Educator Training
8:45 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Center for Families
3333 North Fourth Street, Minneapolis
If you work with parents/caregivers of children aged birth to 18, you are in a unique position to support them in their critical role as sexuality educators for their children. However, sexuality is not always easy to discuss. Come learn tools and techniques to engage parents/caregivers in developmentally appropriate approaches to raising sexually healthy children. Participants receive the It's That Easy! resource manual, a comprehensive guide designed to help you work with parents in your community. For more information and to register, see the flyer and registration form (PDF). Click here to register online. Questions? Contact Jocelyn at 651-644-1447 x 19, jocelyn@moappp.org.
This training is designed to equip professionals working directly with parents/caregiver, with information and strategies to assist parents/caregiver in raising sexually healthy children. This is not a training of trainers' event.
It's That Easy Parent Educator Network - Coming soon!
MOAPPP is growing a network of parent educators that are ready to help parents make talking about sex a little easier. Soon we will host an interactive website which will enable It’s That Easy educators to network and share resources. MOAPPP invites you to join the movement and join us in believing that It is That Easy to raise healthy children.
For more information on It’s That Easy, contact Jocelyn Broyles at 651-644-1447 x 19, jocelyn@moappp.org, or visit www.itsthateasy.org.
*Special acknowledgements to our partners for their dedication to the It's That Easy project: Healthy Youth Development–Prevention Research Center-U of MN, Health Start/West Side Community Health Services, Saint Paul-Ramsey County Department of Public Health, Sexual Violence Prevention Program-MN Department of Health, Teen Age Medical Service, West Suburban Teen Clinic, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota International Health Volunteers.