Sexual health for youth
Learning about our bodies, healthy relationships, puberty, and sexuality is part of growing up.
General sexual health information and resources:
- AboutKidsHealth
- Body image:
- Home | SmartSex Resource
- Home - Teen Health Source
- Puberty:
- Scarleteen | Sex Education For The Real World
- Sexual Health (bcchildrens.ca)
- Sex & U (sexandu.ca)
- Contraception (TODO - CREATE PAGE/SECTION)
- Gender Resources (bcchildrens.ca)
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- SOGI 1 2 3 (sogieducation.org)
Navigating sex & sexual health:
- Age of Consent to Sexual Activity (justice.gc.ca)
- Consent
- Driver's Ed for the Sexual Superhighway: Navigating Consent | Scarleteen
- Ready or Not? The Scarleteen Sex Readiness Checklist | Scarleteen
- Sex - Options for Sexual Health (Decision making, intimacy & relationships, Talking to your Partner about Sex)
- Sexual Wellness
- The Infants Act, Mature Minor Consent and Immunization | HealthLink BC
Online safety (social media, sexting, pornography)
- Culture Reframed
- Home – Cybertip.ca
- Home – protectchildren.ca
- NeedHelpNow.ca – Home
- Online Safety – Sex & U (sexandu.ca)
- Stop Sextortion - Yup. It's a thing.
- Safer Schools Together
Get help:
- Clinic Finder - Options for Sexual Health
- Kids Help Phone
- KUU-US Indigenous Crisis Line
- Physical and Sexual Healthcare - Foundry - (foundrybc.ca)
- Virtual Clinic | Northern Health
- 1-800-739-7367 Sex Sense Line
For families/caregivers & teachers:
- Gender Resources (bcchildrens.ca)
- Home | SIECCAN - Sexual Information and Education Council of Canada
- School and youth health | Northern Health
- Parents Whose Children Identify as Transgender: Guide| CMHA York Region & South Simcoe (cmha-yr.on.ca)
- Teaching Older Children and Teens About Consent | HealthLink BC