Sharing Stories Sharing Support
A Sexual Health Support Project for New and Emerging Communities in WA
Sharing Stories is an innovative theatre based community education and awareness project designed to engage young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds in discussion and dialogue around sex health issues. Based on WA Health Department research about how young people want to receive sexual health information, this project creates a youth friendly and informative environment for young people from CaLD backgrounds to devise a theatre performance that reveals the struggles they face in negotiating the complex and unfamiliar world of relationships and sexual health.
Project aims are:
1.) To equip young people within migrant and new and emerging communities with peer educator skills and knowledge and to develop a youth friendly sexual health resource
2.) To facilitate support programs that enhance the skills and knowledge of parents and family members around issues of sexual health
3.) To train relevant professionals in assisting young people of CALD background to access services and information in regards to sexual health in WA
How this looks:
• Community information sessions are delivered to parents to educate them about sexual health support services.
• A cross curriculum arts project on protective behaviours is being delivered in Balga SHS ( A school with high population of newly arrived migrants)
• Theatre based peer education project with young people involving them creating a play based on the realities they face in negotiating relationships and sexual health.
• Worker education and information sessions to staff at MMRC and community health workers, e
Further funding secured from Health Department of WA to extend the project for two more years with the aim of
• improving skills of peer educators,
• strengthening links between schools and TAFES
• design and deliver community information sessions to men on sexual health issues.
Read more:
Submitted by:
Anne Sorenson
Youth Project Officer
Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre WA Inc
1/14 Chesterfield Road, Mirrabooka, WA, 6061
ph:08 9345 5755
email: Anne.sorenson@mmrcwa.org.au
web: www.mrchobart.org.au
Categories:
Categories:Art and Culture, Women, Youth
Themes:Youth Health, Women’s Health, Sexual Health, Arts
Release Date:17-Jun-2009
Date of Study:17-Jun-2009
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