Wellbeing in Sexual Health
Virtual College
Summary
Overview
Sexual Health is an important part of physical and mental health. Essential elements of good sexual health are equitable relationships and sexual fulfillment with access to information and services to avoid the risk of uninitiated pregnancy, illness or disease.
This module aims to equip people working with young people or their families to understand the pressures and issues faced by young people, it covers both national and local issues, with sections customised for specific local (geographical) areas.
This module covers national issues, but also has specific information for the Blackpool region (any organisations in other regions who would like a locally focused version for their area – please contact us to discuss).
This course aims to help learners to understand where to signpost young people who have questions about their sexual health, to share decision making where the sexual health of a young person is an issue and to make sure you know your role and how it is affected by the policies in place.
On completion of this course learners will:
- Be aware of the sexual health situation locally and nationally
- Understand aspects of confidentiality and the law
- Recognise issues relating to teenage pregnancy
- Be aware of media influences
- Understand what prevention work is happening locally
- Know what services are available locally
- Understand your role in supporting young people to stay healthy and safe
CPD
Description
Lesson Plan
Areas covered include:
- Introduction and Learning Objectives
- Statistics confidentiality and the law
- Relationships and sexual health
- What are we doing and what can we do
Accreditation
The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.
Certification
On completion of this course you will be able to download a Virtual College certificate.
Duration
Approximately 1 - 2 hours. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly you can study and absorb the material. You can proceed as quickly or slowly as you like.
Target Audience
This module is targeted primarily at people who work with children, young people or their families. Please be aware that this training content deals with a potentially disturbing subject matter and material and images used may be of a graphic nature. The module carries links to help lines and national support agencies that can be contacted should you feel the need to talk about the subject to someone other than your colleagues or manager.
Entry Requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
How it Works
What
This is an online course, all the training will be taken through your browser window. There will be no face-to-face sessions with instructors nor will you receive any training material through the post. If you wish you may print out any page of the training material and may also print the notes you took during the training.
You can also revisit the training material at any time, even after you have completed the course.
How
The material for this course has been broken down into several smaller lessons, each lesson dealing with a specific area of the overall subject.
The lesson consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk you through the lesson material at a pace that suits you. Pages may also include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help you keep in touch and interested in the material.
Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be PAUSED and RESUMED at any stage. When all lessons in the course have been completed our system will realise and automatically record that you have successfully completed the course
When
The course is self-paced so you decide how fast or slow the training goes. You can complete the course in stages revisiting the training at any time.
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