Page 6098 - Week 14 - Thursday, 8 December 2011
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The AIDS Action Council:
• Works closely with tertiary institutions and colleges, including forum participation and condom donation, and collaborates with sexuality departments at the ANU, CIT and University of Canberra;
• Developed and manages the QNET website for same sex attracted youth;
• Organises outreach sexual health testing at colleges, tertiary institutions, and at Bit Bent (a venue for same sex attracted youth) in partnership with the CSHC and the Medicare Local HIV Project;
• Delivers peer-based groups entitled “Out There” for young men who are exploring their sexuality which include sections on safe sex, HIV and STIs;
• Manages Facebook and other social marketing websites with sexual health information; and,
• Conducts visits to schools and youth community groups for class room presentations, forum attendance, and sexual health testing.
Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT:
• Engages directly with young people through the campaign approaches noted at Question 1 above;
• Provides free clinical services to young people under 21 years or full-time students who are not eligible to be bulk-billed;
• Provides outreach clinical services to locations that are more accessible for young people, including migrant and refugee young people through partnerships with Companion House, and engages with young parents through the Canberra Community Cares program at Canberra College;
• Engages directly with children in upper primary school through regular engagement with a number of primary schools to deliver puberty education. Effective understanding of reproductive and sexual development underpins later education about sexual and reproductive health, including STIs transmission and prevention, effective use of contraception, and the importance of values in sexual decision making. Comprehensive approaches to sexuality and relationship education are demonstrated to delay onset of sexual activity by adolescents, and to improve safe sexual behaviours when sexual activity is commenced;
• Provides a broad suite of information resources about sexual health, including STIs, in print and online formats; and,
• Makes available sexual health information and advice by qualified health practitioners via telephone, email and SMS. SHFPACT staff contribute to the sexual health content responses of the Somazone website, available online nationally and internationally, and recommended as a reliable information resource by SHFPACT for young people in relation to a broad range of health issues, including drug and alcohol, mental health, relationships and sexual health;
ACT Health Directorate:
• In 2011 the ACT Ministerial Advisory Council on Sexual Health, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases collaborated with curriculum support officers in the Education and Training Directorate to survey teacher practice and confidence in teaching sexual health, and begin designing teaching resources for primary and secondary school sexual health education that address identified gaps and needs, including health literacy approaches to STIs and contraception education.
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