Our presentations include:

• Reproductive health care for men and women including birth control options for both genders
• Mid-life and later-life sexuality
• Adolescent development and Puberty issues
• Comprehensive Sexuality Education Curriculum for School Systems
• Talking to children and youth about sexuality
• Sexuality and Celibacy
• Making sense of abstinence and where it fits in your life
• Contraception and sexually transmitted infections
• Developmentally Disabled individuals and their sexual development
• Including education for care takers, families and partners
• Relationship dynamics and sexual pleasure  
• Rights, Respect and Responsibility: European Approaches to Adolescent Sexuality
• Sexual Ethics
• Rights, Respect and Responsibility: European Approaches to Adolescent Sexuality. Read details on this one below.

Post Cards from Paris

Presented by European Study Tour 2002 Participant:
Cherie Seitz, MA, CFLE
Planned Parenthood of South Central Michigan

Rights. Respect. Responsibility is a national campaign giving voice to a new vision of adolescent sexual health. These core values underpin Planned Parenthood’s and Advocates for Youth’s vision of a society where adolescents are valued, public health policy is driven by scientific research, and sexuality is viewed as a normal and healthy part of being human.

This vision is informed by lessons learned during the Advocates for Youth annual study tours that explore how Germany, France, and the Netherlands achieved significant reductions in teen pregnancies, births, abortions, and STIs. In these countries, governments and society view accurate information and confidential sexual health services, not merely as a need of youth, but as their right. Addressing youth's right to information and services, in turn, depends upon society's accepting adolescents' sexual development as normal and healthy. The Dutch, Germans, and French spend far less time and effort than Americans in trying to prevent young people from having sex and more time and effort in educating and empowering young people to behave responsibly when they eventually decide to have sex.