Age-Appropriate Sex Education: Development, Health, and Consent
Age-appropriate sex education presents accurate sexuality information at a level suited to a learner’s age, development, maturity, and understanding.
Rights-Based Sex Education: Autonomy, Equality, and Sexual Health
Rights-based sex education connects sexuality and sexual health with dignity, bodily autonomy, consent, equality, privacy, and access to accurate information.
Trauma-Informed Sex Education: Safety, Consent, and Support
Trauma-informed sex education teaches sexuality and sexual health with awareness of trauma, emphasizing safety, choice, consent, dignity, and respectful participation.
Inclusive Sex Education: Sexual Health, Identity, and Diversity
Inclusive sex education provides accurate, age-appropriate sexuality information that reflects diverse genders, orientations, bodies, abilities, relationships, and experiences.
Consent Culture: Building Respect, Autonomy, and Sexual Accountability
Consent culture is a social environment that treats bodily autonomy, clear communication, voluntary agreement, and respect for personal boundaries as normal.
Protect Innocence: Meaning, Sexual Education, and Child Safety
Protect innocence means safeguarding someone from exploitation or harmful sexual exposure, but it should not be confused with withholding age-appropriate education.