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Please see the following list of online resources, including fact sheets, reports, activities, and guidelines related to sexual and reproductive health, harm reduction, and trauma-informed care:

Teen Talk is a SERC program focusing on youth health education. We provide services for youth from a harm reduction, prevention education perspective. We focus on sexuality, reproductive health, body image, substance use awareness, mental health, issues of diversity, and anti-violence issues. We adhere to the belief that by providing youth with accurate, non-judgmental information they can make healthier decisions and choices for themselves!

Sexual, Reproductive, and Human Rights

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Fact Sheets

Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights

Manitoba Human Rights Code

Websites

Manitoba Human Rights Commission

What are Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights?

Reproductive Justice: Sister Song – Women of Color Reproductive Justice Coalition

Based on a human rights framework, Reproductive Justice concentrates on access, not just choice and not just abortion.

Harm Reduction

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Guides

Discussing Sexual Health, Harm Reduction and STBBIs (Canadian Public Health Association)

Guide for health care providers and community workers doing health assessments in a way that reduces stigma.

Websites

Manitoba Harm Reduction Network

General Sexuality Resources

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Websites

Amaze.org

Videos on various sexuality topics available in multiple languages. Also resources for educators and parents/guardians.

Sexuality Wheel

Similar to a medicine wheel, the sexuality wheel is a tool that can be used to start conversations. Use it to broaden the definition of sexuality or discuss each section alone.

Everybody Curious

Canadian-based web series of sexual education topics for middle and high school aged youth.

Native Youth Sexual Health Network

Organization by and for Indigenous youth working on issues around sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice across Turtle Island (Canada & USA)

Sex & U

Many fact sheets on sexual and reproductive health topics

Sex Fluent

Website for teens and young adults on many different sexuality topics as well as substance use. Created by the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research.

Teaching Sexuality Education

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Canadian Best Practices

Questions and Answers: Sexual Health Education in Schools and Other Settings (Updated 2020)

Responses to common myths about teaching sexuality education

Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education (SIECCAN 2019)

Theory and best practice on teaching and evaluating sexuality education in Canada

Manitoba Curricular Resources

Guide to Support Manitoba Provincial Physical Education/Health Education for Grades K-8

Curricular outcomes and resources directly from the Province. Written in 1998, Updated in 2005

Guide to Support Manitoba Provincial Physical Education/Health Education for Grades 9-10

Curricular outcomes and resources directly from the Province. Written in 1998, Updated in 2005

Framework of Outcomes for Manitoba Curriculum for Senior Years Human Ecology

Curricular outcomes in Family Studies updated in 2018 to include sexual and gender identity as well as the sexuality wheel.

Activities and Facilitation Guides

Touch Talk – Virtual

Virtual version of Touch Talk activity to practice communication skills around sexual consent.

Teen Talk Service Provider Manual and Teen Talk Activities Binder

Teen Talk’s proven activities with facilitator notes, curricular outcomes and background information.

Beyond the Basics (Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights)

Theory and best practice on teaching sexuality education. Also includes many activities with facilitator notes. Sign up for their free online portal

MFNERC Middle Years Health Education from a First Nations Perspective

Guide with videos made by the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre

Guides for Parents & Guardians

Teaching Sexual Health – A resource for parents & guardians (Government of Alberta)

Information on starting age appropriate conversations about sexuality at home

Puberty

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Activities

Puberty Changes – Virtual

Virtual version of Puberty Changes activity to help facilitate discussions about common changes during puberty.

Fact Sheets

Puberty, including section for trans youth (Centre for Sexuality)

Guide on puberty including a section for transgender youth

Consent

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Activities

Touch Talk – Virtual

Virtual version of Touch Talk activity to practice communication skills around sexual consent.

Fact Sheets

Consent

Websites

Consent for Kids (Blue Seat Studios)

Appropriate for Grade 5 and below to talk about consent

Cycling Through Consent (Western University)

Longer video appropriate for all ages. Best for high school and post secondary students to discuss consent

STBBIs and Safer Sex

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Activities

Condom Line Up Game (Alberta Health Services)

Classroom activity where teams line up the order of instructions on how to use an external condom.

Fact Sheets

Safer Sex & STBBIs

Heads Up! Campaign Survey 2014 (WRHA)

Evaluation of the effects of the Heads Up! safer sex campaign on youth in Manitoba.

Websites

Let’s Talk About Lube

New York based Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Centre shares information about lube.

Sex Friendly Manitoba

Nine Circles answers questions about STBBIs.

CATIE: Canada’s source for HIV and hepatitis C information

Nine Circles: Manitoba’s HIV program

Order Form

“Need Condoms?” Condom ordering program

Birth Control and Reproduction

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Fact Sheets

Birth Control

Order Form

Birth Control Kit Order Form

Gender, Sexual and Relational Diversity Inclusion
(2STLGBQ+)

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Guides

Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Students in Manitoba Schools (Province of Manitoba)

Information and tools to create a welcoming environment for transgender and gender diverse students.

Creating Authentic Spaces (The 519)

Set of infographics and creating a welcoming environment for transgender people with an accompanying toolkit.

Gender and Sexuality Galaxies (Action Canada)

Graphic going beyond spectrums and showing identity as galaxies. Includes some vocabulary and definition suggestions.

Gender Unicorn (Trans Student Educational Resources)

Graphic to visual explore sex, gender and attraction. Available in 15 languages.

Activities

My Gender Journey (Gender Spectrum)

A resource for service providers and individuals to explore their own gendered experience and how it impacts their professional work.

Websites

Two-Spirited People of Manitoba

Manitoba organization keeping Two Spirit history and culture in Manitoba.

Two Spirit Directory (National Confederacy of Two-Spirit Organizations, 2013)

Resource directory of Two Spirit organizations with a youth section provided by Native Youth Sexual Health Network.

Two Spirit Michif Local (Manitoba)

For 2SLGBTQ+ Métis citizens looking for belonging, family and friends, support, and a safe space.

2 Spirits in Motion Society (2SiMS-National)

2SiMS is a National organization for and by 2 Spirit Peoples across Turtle Island.

Family Acceptance Project

Research, policy, education, and tools to support families with 2SLGBTQ+ children.

Rainbow Resource Centre

Serving Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario’s 2SLGBTQ+ community through education, support, and resources. Including programs for youth and older adults.