Human Sexuality and Health Committee

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Sex Ed. Committee Update

Sex Ed. Committee members meet on June 24^th at Wolf Creek from 12:30 to 1:00.

Members present were:  Sheryl Palmquist, Tracy Quarnstrom, Stacy Bender and our new member Taran Warren.

Discussion Points were as follows:

·         The MOAPPP (Minnesota Organization On Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention And Parenting) Conference that was attended by Sheryl Palmquist and Tracy Quarnstrom on May 7-8, 2009.    We renewed Wolf Creek’s Organizational Membership for the 2009-2010 year until May.  We also discussed the sessions that were attended and the what and how the committee would like to move forward with some of the information and resources that we learned about.

·         We would like to campaign or recruit some parent advisors to sit on the Sex Ed. Committee.  The committee will be doing this over the summer months and asking parents at open house nights if interested.

·         The committee would like to look at Wolf Creek’s Health I & II courses and to see all the standards that are covered in those courses and how much of the courses cover sexual health in youth.  From there we would also like to look at how we are framing the messages about this topic and how we teach sexual health and the methods that are being used to teach students this most needed information on youth development and all the choices that are involved with ones sexual health.

·         The committee also briefly discussed the opportunity to make another class that would be an elective course that would go deeper then Health I & II on the topic of Sex Ed. and the changes and all the choices that come with sexual health for a person.  The idea was to title this course Personal Awareness.

·         Pass out copies of 2009 MN Adolescent Sexual Health Report from MOAPPP and the What do parents think about sex education? Report from the University of MN – Division of Adolescent Health & Medicine.

 

 

Next meeting is yet to be determined.