Talking About Sex: How Parents and Caregivers Can Talk to Their Kids. An Interview with Two Experts

Guests: Dr. Margaret Newbury Jones & Lucy Snider

Dr. Margaret Newbury Jones
www.shadeconsulting.ca
Has been working in the disability field for her entire career, 25+ years and counting. She operates SHADE Consulting and Counselling based in Kelowna, BC. She provides sexuality education, individual counselling, team consultations, training workshops, and whatever else she can think of. She works specifically with folks with IDD including those living with FASD, autism spectrum disorder, mental illness, those who have experienced trauma and others including families and support teams. She loves to work with folks with complex needs and their teams; being compassionately curious comes naturally to her. She worked as a public-school teacher for 15 years and has been providing sexuality education and counselling since then.


Lucy Snider
www.bcsexualwellness.com
Psychosexual and Relationship Psychotherapist and Sexual Health Educator living in Kelowna, BC. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and a member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. She has been working in the field of mental health since 2009. Originally from the UK, she spent 10 years working with some of the largest sexual health clinics and HIV and sexual health charities in the UK. Her roles have varied between sexual health advisor and educator, specialist sexual health and HIV counsellor and psychosexual and relationship therapist for both the British National Health Service (NHS) and the private sector. She moved to Canada in 2018 where she runs a private practice and works for the Central Okanagan Elizabeth Fry Society as a trauma counsellor supporting survivors of sexual violence. She is also a volunteer sexual health counsellor at Options for Sexual Health.



Online Teaching/Resources/Parent Websites
• www.teachingsexualhealth.ca – Teacher resources (EN & FR), lesson plans, diverse learners

• www.aspsh.ca – Online courses about sexuality and teaching, reasonable prices

• www.safehealthyschools.org

• www.urbandictionary.com

• www.pflagcanada.ca

• https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/curriculum/physical-health-education - BC Physical and Health Education curriculum overview and resources

• www.triangle.org.uk – Under Resources – How It Is – An image vocabulary for children

• www.booksbeyondwords.co.uk – Books Beyond Words (BBW) is a series of picture books that have been developed to make communication easier and to enable discussion about difficult topics. There are some free online version available as well as other titles available for purchase.

• https://vkc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/HealthyBodies/ - The Healthy Bodies Toolkit – Parent’s Guide to Puberty for Boys and Girls with Disabilities

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuEvYNNQ-dHeVhbyeJHx9s8oqsvBk621v Sex Ed for People With I/DD – Series of 10 videos on a variety of topics

• https://tasccalberta.com/

• https://www.choicesupport.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/supported-loving/supported-loving-toolkit Supported Loving Toolkit

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtoVyxtvQ8A&feature=youtu.be Friendship? Dating? Sex? Relationships in the Complex FASD World

• Talk to Me: A Comprehensive Sexuality Education Resource, Region of Peel - http://www.region.peel.on.ca/health/talk-to-me/index.htm

• Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education, 2019 - http://sieccan.org/sexual-health-education/

• SIECCAN – Sex Information and Education Council of Canada – www.sieccan.org

• What’s My Body Doin – Eva Bloom talking about all kinds of sexuality related topicshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpmgFWyoBQ00FjQBUOgMfAg


Websites you may want to send students/clients to or use for teaching

• www.advocatesforyouth.org

• www.amaze.org

• www.blush.vch.ca

• www.optionsforsexualhealth.org

• www.sexandu.ca

• www.scarleteen.com

• www.sexetc.org

• www.plannedparenthood.org/info-for-teens

• www.teenhealthsource.com

• www.goaskalice.columbia.edu

• www.teengrowth.com

• www.iwannaknow.org

• www.sexedschool.ca