Grade 8-12 Helpful Resources
The following resources inform from a variety of perspectives and values. Please utilize the ones that are suitable for you and your student.
Digital Safety Resources
- Common Sense Media - Resource for parents regarding digital wellness
- CyberTip - Tip line for reporting online abuse and sextortion
- Family IT Guy - Simple guides to keep kids safe online
- Intimate Images Protection Service - Help with images shared without consent
- Media Smarts - Canada's center for digital media literacy
- Need Help Now - help reporting and ending the spread of sexual images
- Parenting in the Online World Booklet - Information about parenting and technology from the Canadian Center for Child Protection
- Protect Kids Online - Up to date information on new technology and how to best protect kids
- RCMP Online Safety - RCMP tips for parents regarding online safety
- Safer Schools Together - Raising Digitally Responsible Youth: A Parent's Guide
- Supporting Online Safety in Children and Teens
Personal Safety Resources
- Canadian Center for Child Protection - Helping families protect children and teens
- Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline - Submit a tip to report human trafficking
- Elizabeth Fry Society - Support for survivors of intimate partner violence, child abuse, and assault
- Erase Report It Tool - Parent or student tool to report anything to a school that does not feel rightbehaviour in children and adolescents
- Fight Child Abuse - Advocacy group
- Foundry Kelowna - Youth mental wellness center
Sexual Health Resources
- AMAZE - Video clips on a variety of topics on everything from body changes to sex to relationships
- Child and Adolescent Sexual Development - Age-based examples of sexual
- Etcetera - 2SLGBTQIA+ youth group
- Kids Health - Child and parent resources about health topics
- Options for Sexual Health - reliable, factual information about sexual health and contact information for the Kelowna Clinic
- SIECCAN Sexual Health Education Benchmarks (for parents)
- SIECCAN Sexual Health Education Questions and Answers (for parents)
- Sex and U - Trusted resource for sexual and reproductive health
- Smart Sex Resource - A service provided by the BC Centre for Disease Control
- Teaching Sexual Health - Resources for parents and teachers (Alberta Health Services)
- Teaching Teens About Consent (video)
- TransCare BC - Leadership for trans health services
- Young Men's Health - Carefully researched health information for young men
Books
- Talk Sex Today
- Salema Noon & Meg Hickling (for parents)
- From Diapers to Dating: A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children
- Debra W Haffner (for parents)
- The Little Black Book for Girlz: A Book on Healthy Sexuality
- St. Stephen's Community House
- The Little Black Book for Guys: Guys Talk About Sex
- St. Stephen's Community House
- Sex: A Book for Teens: An Uncensored Guide to Your Body, Sex and Safety
- Nikol Hasler
- S.E.X. 2nd Ed.: The all-you-need-to-know sexuality guide to get you through your teens and twenties
- Heather Corinna
- Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens
- Kathy Belge and Marke Bieschke
- Our Bodies, Ourselves
- Boston Women's Health Collective
- Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Girl
- Esther Drill