Comprehensive sex ed is key to supporting youth mental health development.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month—a time to share knowledge and bust stigma aroundissues and empower our communities to take greater care of themselves and each other. As a youth sexuality educator, I have seen firsthand how comprehensive sex education that teaches young people healthy sexuality and communication, boundary-setting and consent is key to youth mental health and development.
shows how a better understanding of their bodies and sexuality can have profound positive effects on a young person’s mental health, but even though we have the data, there is so much work that still needs to be done. Because age-appropriate, comprehensive sex education for our youth is not a requirement in our current education system, most teenagers—especially those in
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