Sex essentials: an exercise in reorienting health services and developing personal skills
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‘an exercise in reorienting health services and developing personal skills’
Kevin Scott and Nick Connor
•160,000•Large LGBT community •Approximately 350 PLHIV•Decrease in new HIV infections
Cairns
WHY? To improve the skills of those who work with
our core clients to be able to discuss sexual health, STI screening and testing so that
they can empower clients to improve their sexual health
HOW? A meeting of two interagengy RASHAC
(Regional Sexual health ,HIV and Viral Hepatitis
Advisory Committee) and YACI ( Youth Accessing Contraception and Information)
was held in Cairns on December 8th to discuss Sexual Health Awareness Week 2012
IDEA Funding for activities was available from
Communicable diseases branch and it was decided to host a
professional development day called ‘Sex essentials’ .Tuesday
Febth
The idea came from two previous forums in the Cairns
district which had been successful- the LGBT Aging Forum and Mental Health Services Forum both held
at Cairns Regional Council meeting room in past 6
months
Audience Health promotion workers, youth workers , health service & NGO workers who work with
our core clients , workers from other sectors who
want to know more about sexual health
Program
A subcommittee was set up to decide on the elements of the
program These included presentations
on:+What’s new in Sexual Health
+Risk Reduction +Talking about Sex
+Negiotation,being ready+Young People
+ Sex and Drugs +Contact Tracing
Theme+sexy services session,
+facilitator /entertainer ,music and to theme
+Valentines Day +International Condom Day
+Shirts for committee
TALK , RESPECT, ENJOY ,KEEP IT SAFE
Registration+Peolep were asked to register for the day early December
+the day would be free
+participants asked to do pre forum survey
+110 registrations (12 didn’t attend, 5 just turned up)
+certificate of attendance provided
The day itself !” Oh my god I haven’t had so much fun for such a
long time” “I cant believe they are saying that stuff”
“everything was handled with humour and respect” “wonderful informative day providing lots of
discussion for the trip home”“look forward to the next workshop”
Evaluation Pre evaluation was done and in the post evaluation 80% of attendees completed the survey on the day
+guidance for future sexual health, +feedback regarded the sexual heath services are
very dynamic and engaging + 77% of people would like more of these events and
18 people didn’t answer this question