Webinar: Leading Sexuality Education Groups with Sexually Abusive Youth:

Streetwise to Sex-Wise, the NEW Third Edition

NEARI Webinar 5/18/17

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Learning Objectives:

Participants will:

1. Learn the rationale for teaching healthy sexuality groups to youth with sexual behavior problems.

2. Learn a methodology for leading sexuality education groups.

3. Learn innovative strategies for teaching about healthy sexuality with youth with sexual behavior problems.

  1. 69 Percent of Planned Parenthood educators in the US reported using Streetwise to Sex-Wise
  2. Mainstream public schools are settings where Streetwise is most often used.
  3. The first edition of Streetwise was published in the early 1990s.
  4. “Sexual Health Issues for Youth Involved in Commercial Sexual Exploitation” is one of the Profiles of Selected High Risk Populations covered in Streetwise.
  5. Streetwise is a pregnancy prevention and HIV curriculum for youth.
  6. The Streetwise methodology is meant to engage non-traditional learners who tend not to learn well in regular academic settings.
  7. A professional using the Streetwise curriculum must be an experienced sexuality educator before they can teach the lessons.
  8. A core principle of Streetwise is that a positive approach to sexuality education is the best approach.
  9. The pornography lesson in Streetwise aims, in part, to help participants to determine what kinds of information about sexuality can and cannot be learned accurately from pornography.
  10. The lesson on consent is a new lesson in the third edition of Streetwise.

Qualifications

Dr. Steven Brown authored Streetwise to Sex-Wise: Sexuality Education for High Risk Youth, now in it’s third edition, which is used internationally by professionals teaching sexuality education for high risk youth. He is a long-time Sexuality Educator/Trainer. I have been training professionals how to teach sexuality educator for 25 years.

  • Brown, S. & Tavener, W. (2001). Streetwise to Sex-wise: Sexuality Education for High Risk Youth, (2nd ed.) Morristown, NJ: Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey.
  • Brown, S. & Schwartz, C. (2006). Promoting Healthy Sexuality in Sexually Abusive Youth. In R. Longo & D. Prescott (Eds.) Current Perspectives in the Treatment of Sexually Aggressive Youth. Holyoke, MA: NEARI Press.
  • Brown, S. (October/November, 2000). Healthy sexuality and the treatment of sexually abusive youth. SIECUS Report, 29 (1), pp. 40-46.

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