This lesson is designed to help students learn to access health care on their own.
This lesson reviews the basics of safer sex practices and contraception. It also introduces several laws in Oregon that revolve around consent, reproductive and sexual health access, medical consent, and more.
Coursework examines important issues facing the youth of today and discusses sexual assault, sexual violence, sex trafficking, and the importance of advocating for self and for others. The coursework is inclusive to all genders/races/ethnicities/abilities and makes the point that sexual violence does not discriminate. This is meant to be an open, discussion-based seminar to ask important questions and learn about safety for yourself and others from sexual violence. Learn about your resources and your rights as an individual to help serve yourself and your community. Students will complete a community project that contributes to student volunteer hours. This is meant to help them immerse into the content they learn within the scope of this course, as well as foster empathy and civic engagement within students to become passionate and upstanding individuals for their communities.