Community Sex Ed Classes
I offer community sexuality education classes using the Our Whole Lives sexuality curriculum to both youth and adults in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. See below for my upcoming classes!
OWL for 7th & 8th grade 25-week program (in-person, Durham) with Celena Urquia
Fall 2024 - $450 - Mondays, 5-6:30pm - Sign up & learn more HERE
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OWL for 5th & 6th grade 11-week program (in-person, Durham) with Celena Urquia
Fall 2024 - $250 - Wednesdays, 4:30-5:45pm - Sign up & learn more HERE
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OWL Summer Camp! For rising 8th/9th graders (in-person, Chapel Hill)
July 14-18, 2025, 9am-3:30pm - $400 - More info coming soon!
Parents are children’s primary sexuality educators yet we were often not educated in sexuality topics ourselves. By attending one of my parent workshops, gain the skills and content you need to begin discussing consent, bodily autonomy, healthy relationships, and sexual health with your kids in age appropriate ways.
Navigating a Porn-Saturated World (June 2024, online)
For parents of late elementary, middle, or high school youth, join me as we chat about how to support our kids in safely navigating a porn-saturated world. We’ll share concerns, discuss the importance of media literacy and how to help our kids develop it, and learn about ways to have conversations with your young person about media and pornography to promote healthy sexuality.
June 23, 2024, 3-4:30pm - $35/household - Sign up HERE
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Being a Supportive Sex Ed Adult (July 2024, online)
Unsure how to explain how babies are made to your little one or how to bring up the topic of safe sex with your teen? Unfortunately, we can’t rely on our schools to ensure our kids are getting healthy, affirming, age-appropriate information about their sexual and reproductive health so we as parents need to step up. Join me to learn some tips for becoming an askable adult to support your kid’s sex education and how to advocate for quality sex ed at your child’s school. Designed for North Carolina parents.
July 14, 2024, 3-4:30pm - $35/household - Sign up HERE
Parent Workshops
Are you or your school unsure how to meet the state health standards related to sexuality education? I offer K-12 sexuality education workshops for schools wanting to ensure their students are getting quality, accurate, and inclusive sexual health knowledge and skills. Hire me to today to fulfill your sexual health standards!
Has your school or community center been struggling with students not respecting each other’s boundaries? How to address puberty? Unintended pregnancies? If you’re wanting a more tailored, wholistic approach to addressing your community’s sexual health needs, I design and launch sex ed programs catered to those needs, conducting backend research of social, cultural, or country-specific contexts, identifying or designing a curriculum that would best suit your students, implementing teacher trainings, providing ongoing programmatic support, and developing monitoring and evaluation tools and analysis. Reach out to get started today!
See my Projects page to read about the sexual health programs I launched in Rwanda and the Dominican Republic, as well my work with Montessori schools to launch school-wide, age-appropriate sex ed programs.
Program Development & Support
Curriculum Review & Development
I write, review, update, and tailor sexual and reproductive health curricula for a variety of target groups, including but not limited to youth, adults, communities in developing countries, LGBTQ+ folks, refugees, and more. I specialize in participatory teaching methods and use a trauma-informed, equity-focused lens. I also write curricula for active listening/communication techniques and team-building.
Previous projects include writing a sexual and reproductive health manual for a Rwandan youth center and updating a chaplaincy training manual for young adults. Visit my Resources page to download samples.
Training & Education Workshops
I offer single or multi-day training workshops to educate groups on reproductive health issues and/or train teachers or other professionals in sexual and reproductive health content. Workshops can be catered to youth, young adults, or adults and can occur at schools, after-school programs, or workplaces, among others. Sample topics include menstruation, healthy communication, HIV and STI (sexually transmitted infection) prevention, consent, and women’s health. Trainings can include teacher trainings for how to teach sex ed to students or workshops for medical professionals on how to address sexuality topics with patients.
Previous projects include developing a women’s health training for refugee women in Indianapolis and delivering a teacher training to local facilitators in Rwanda. See my Projects page for additional details.
