The Foundation Programme in Sexual Health Promotion

The aim of this 6 day course is to enhance participants’ capacity to incorporate sexual health promotion into their work through the development of their confidence, knowledge and skills in relation to sexual health.

This course is unique in an Irish context in terms of its content, length and approach to sexual health promotion. It is also unique in its blend of participant professions, including front line clinicians, teachers, counsellors, social workers, psychologists, community and youth workers and representatives from the physical and intellectual disability sectors, to name but a few.

Topics covered in the Foundation Programme in Sexual Health Promotion includean introduction to sexual health promotion, sexual rights and inequalities, a life course approach to sexual health, sexual health promotion within the Irish context, gender, sexual orientation, healthy and unhealthy relationships, intimacy and sexual pleasure, consent and the law, physical sexual health, the role of sexual health promotion policy and raising the issue of sexual health with clients.

Click on your area for more information on when the Foundation Programme in Sexual Health Promotion is being delivered there or to get more information email the regional contact in your chosen area.

For more information visit HSE Foundation Programme in Sexual Health Promotion - sexualwellbeing.ie

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