If you are a parent with children under 18 years old, your help is needed.
Horizon and Vitalite Health Networks have teamed up to find out your views on sexual health.
Public Health Nurse Nancy Gesner says they’ll use your feedback to ensure they are providing the right resources to parents.
“It was identified by many community level and provincial partners as a gap. It is greatly felt that parents, as their kids first teachers really have an opportunity to influence this subject matter,” Gesner says.
She says sexual health education should begin at a young age, when children are just learning to talk.
“Children should be naming all of their body parts correctly. Parents also have an opportunity to influence preventing gender stereotyping, as well as role modelling inclusive and respectful language, that’s a really important beginning of sexual health education,” Gesner says.
She encourages parents to listen to their kids, when they have questions about sexual health, “Use teachable moments across all of childhood and adolescence. We often hear parents say, that it’s time to do the talk. It is not the talk, it is really a lifetime of talks with regards to sexual health.”
The survey can be found HERE
