Are you a passionate educator in the field of sexuality and sexual health? Are you interested in meeting and networking with other people who are committed to matters of reproductive and social justice? Do you want an opportunity to share your own knowledge and resources with others in your field?
If so, this is the perfect place for you! Please join PASHI, AccessMatters, and the Widener University Center for Human Sexuality Studies for our Sexual Health Educators Networking Event!
This event is for anyone interested in sexual health across the lifespan. This includes sexual health educators, social workers, sex therapists, or people who are not working in the field, but have an interest in sexual health and reproductive justice.
Attendance is FREE. If you would like to support the event and the work of the sponsoring organizations, there is an option to provide a donation when you register.
What we are bringing:
- A commitment to connecting individuals and organizations that share a common interest in and passion for sexual health education.
- Non-alcoholic drinks, wine, beer, and hors d’oeuvres!
- A theater-based performance about adolescent sexual health that demonstrates how theater can be used as a tool in sexual health education.
- An opportunity to get involved in local education and advocacy efforts around sex education in Pennsylvania
- A desire to learn more about you and the important work that you do!
What you can bring:
- Your experience, ideas, energy, and passion for comprehensive sexual health education
- Any resources or informational pamphlets that you would like us to table
- Your excitement to share with and learn from other educators!
This is a networking event and will mostly be social. Please bring business cards and your dazzling personality as you connect with others working to make Philadelphia a city with amazing sexual health programs and services.
Who are we and what do we do? (More about the sponsoring organizations)
Philadelphia Area Sexual Health Initiative (PASHI) is an initiative of Public Health Management Corporation that works to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes for youth and adults in the Greater Philadelphia region. PASHI’s mission is to provide innovative, comprehensive, sex-positive, and anti-oppressive health education across the lifespan. PASHI takes a holistic approach to its work and affirms that sexuality is inclusive of the mind, body and spirit. For more information, visit: www.RealRapPhilly.org.
Public Health Management Corporation is a public health nonprofit that strives to build healthier communities and improve health outcomes through education, promotion, research, planning, and direct services. For more information, visit: https://www.phmc.org/site/about-us
AccessMatters is a non-profit organization with a mission to protect, expand, and enhance equitable access to sexual and reproductive health care and information for all people. They do that through developing, implementing, and evaluating innovative programs in the areas of family planning, HIV and STD prevention and testing, breast and cervical cancer screening and prevention, adolescent sexual health, maternal-child health, and health equity. Learn more about them here: https://www.accessmatters.org/what-we-do/about-us/
Widener University’s Center for Human Sexuality Studies (CHSS) offers a variety of graduate degrees in human sexuality studies including one of the only doctorate degrees in the field offered at a fully accredited university in the United States. Our graduates are leaders in the field of human sexuality who take on leadership roles worldwide as clinicians, educators, and sexuality researchers. To learn more about CHSS and to keep current in local and national events in the field of sexual health visit: http://sites.widener.edu/chss/