I’m partnering with a local service provider to offer a 10 week human sexuality class, Connections. I’m really excited about it. The goal is that the community agency will be able to continue offering classes in the future. They will have someone who has experience teaching a class and they will also have a set of materials. This is my first time doing a co-operating method of training so I’ll be keeping you posted on how it is going. If this is successful, it’s a model that I would like to pursue so if you’re in the Champaign-Urbana area and you’re interested, let me know.
The group is really great. I love working with middle school and high school students, but adults are just refreshing. This week we mostly just got to know each other. We did some of my favorite get to know you activities such as making collage of who we are on the outside and the inside.
We also have an undergraduate social work student working with us. She’s developing a newsletter that will go home each week with the participants. The newsletters expand on the topics that we talk about in class.
The other thing that is really neat bout this group is that one of the participants comes to the planning meetings and helps set the group up. He’s taking a participant and instructor role.
The Birds and The Bees 