{"id":92062,"date":"2022-04-25T12:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=92062"},"modified":"2022-04-25T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:14:57","slug":"more-than-ever-parents-need-to-be-advocates-for-sexual-health-education-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/more-than-ever-parents-need-to-be-advocates-for-sexual-health-education-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"More than ever, parents need to be advocates for sexual health education, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">On February 25 of this year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/corteshealth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cortes Community Health Association<\/a> provided a free online workshop entitled \"How to talk to your kids about...\" The workshop was led by certified sexual health educator Kerri Isham who trains professionals, parents and caregivers in three main areas: creating a culture of child protection, sexual health education for children and youth and information regarding the long-term impacts of pornography.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Isham stresses the need for parents to advocate for sexual health education in schools, and to be vigilant about the safety of their children while they are online.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">After two years of COVID-19, where people have been spending more time online, she says our kids are at greater risk for sexual harm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Resources on sexual health is offered to parents and schools on Isham's website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerupeducation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powerup Education<\/a>, and upcoming webinars for youth have been set for the 2022-2023 school year. One webinar includes a seven-part teen series for youth 12 to 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Listen to the interview with Kerri Isham:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 25 of this year, the Cortes Community Health Association provided a free online workshop entitled &#8220;How to talk to your kids about&#8230;&#8221; The workshop was led by certified sexual health educator Kerri Isham who trains professionals, parents and caregivers in three main areas: creating a culture of child protection, sexual health education for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":92064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[221,223],"tags":[9873,314,14091,5206,14092,14093,14094,487],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92062"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92154,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92062\/revisions\/92154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92062"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=92062"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=92062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}