Sexuality Education Program

Lurie Children's Personal Health and Safety (PHS) and Sexual Health Education (SHE) Programs support students, parents/caregivers, and school staff by facilitating thoughtful, culturally responsive, trauma-informed and LGBTQ+ inclusive conversations. All content is consistent with CPS Sexual Health Education Policy, the Keeping Youth Safe & Healthy Act, Erin’s Law, and National Sexuality Education Standards.

Topic areas include:

Consent
Personal safety
Digital safety
Healthy relationships
Gender
Puberty
Reproductive and sexual health

All programming is available in English and Spanish with a focus on 3rd-12th grade classrooms, staff, and caregiver spaces.

Types of Programming

Please reach out for programing tailored to your school community. Caregivers have the opportunity to review the scope and sequence of materials and may opt-out their own student from programming. Please reach out at least six months in advance of student programing needs to ensure we have capacity.

Our staff provide tailored developmentally appropriate sessions to fit the needs of all students.

LGBTQ Centered/GSA Workshops

We offer age-appropriate workshops tailored to the needs of LGBTQ youth groups focusing on consent, communication, sexual health & HIV.

Parents and family members are their children’s first teachers. Our staff provides adults an opportunity to explore and learn about the range of topics covered in comprehensive sexuality education. We talk about ways to respond to challenging questions. We provide tools and resources to ensure that adults are equipped to provide ongoing affirming support to the children and young people in their lives. These sessions are conversational, prioritizing community and family needs. These sessions support the need for each young person to have a team of informed and supportive adults at home, at school and in their communities.

Our team knows the importance of supporting teachers and school staff in becoming comfortable and confident in facilitating sexuality education conversations. Through our school professional development offerings, we prepare staff to provide accurate and developmentally appropriate responses to challenging questions. Professional development (PD) sessions can focus on formal sexual health education facilitators or general school personnel who may be responding to sexuality education topics that arise outside of formal curriculum.

Our Inclusive & Welcoming Schools Trainings are an excellent complement to Sexuality Education training.