Sexual health for youth
Learning about our bodies, healthy relationships, puberty, and sexuality is part of growing up.
General sexual health information and resources
Body image:
- Body modification – Sex & U
- Self-image – Sex & U
- SmartSex resource
- The human body – Sex & U
- Teen Health Source
Puberty:
- Contraception - Northern Health
- Gender resources - BC Childrens
- Puberty – Sex & U
- Scarleteen - Sex Education For The Real World
- Sex & U
- Sexual health - BC Childrens
- Sexual orientation and gender identity - Northern Health
- SOGI 1 2 3
Navigating sex and sexual health
- Age of consent to sexual activity - Government of Canada
- Consent - Northern Health
- Driver's Ed for the sexual superhighway: Navigating consent - Scarleteen
- Ready or not? The Scarleteen sex readiness checklist - Scarleteen
- Sex (Decision making, intimacy and relationships, talking to your partner about sex) - Options for Sexual Health
- Sexual wellness - Northern Health
- The Infants Act, Mature Minor Consent and Immunization - HealthLink BC
Online safety (social media, sexting, pornography)
- Culture Reframed
- Cybertip
- Need Help Now
- Online safety - Sex & U
- Protect Children
- Safer Schools Together
- Yup. It's a thing - Stop Sextortion
Get help
- Clinic finder - Options for Sexual Health
- Kids Help Phone
- KUU-US Indigenous Crisis Line
- Physical and sexual health care - Foundry
- Sex Sense Line 1-800-739-7367
- Virtual Clinic - Northern Health
For families/caregivers and teachers
- Gender resources - BC Childrens
- School and youth health - Northern Health
- Sexual Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN)
- Parents whose children identify as transgender: Guide - CMHA York Region & South Simcoe
- Teaching older children and teens about consent - HealthLink BC