This document summarizes Sensoa's approaches to educating children about sexuality through partnerships, parents, and teachers/social workers. It discusses Sensoa's educational library and resources like websites, campaigns, and materials. It also describes Sensoa's annual "Spring Fever Week" campaign in Flanders to promote sexuality education in schools. The document outlines Sensoa's development of educational materials in cocreation with partners and youth, and provides examples like their "Between the Sheets" resources and "Sensoa Flag System" for assessing sexual behaviors.

1. Study Session
Crossing Borders
ber 2016
rhetsel & Wannes Magits

2. Partner of the Flemish government
::
Via professionals/partners and online
communication towards young people, adults
and vulnerable migrants
::
Services for people living with hiv
and MSM
::
STI/HIV-prevention + family planning +
prevention of sexual agression

3. This session
Sensoa’s ways of educating children:
•Through partnerships
•Through parents
•Through teachers and social workers
•No direct interventions (yet)

5. Through partnerships
•+20 partner organizations
•educating parents
•websites aimed towards parents
•campaigns and expertise building

6. Through parents
•Educational library
•Website
•Exposition
•Booklet

7. educational library

8. an exposition on sexuality

9. Gender for
toddlers

10. Body development for pre-teens

11. Fertility for
pre-teens

12. Body image for
teens

13. a website for parents:
www.seksualiteit.be
+ supporting (websites of) partner
organizations

14. booklets
well-received, but in need of
update

15. Through teachers/social workers
•Educational library
•Exposition
•Website for teachers
•Yearly campaign
•Educational materials
•Website for vulnerable migrants (Zanzu)

16. a website for teachers:
www.seksuelevorming.be

17. 7) Week van de Lentekriebels
=Spring Fever Week Flanders

18. Spring Fever Week
•Towards spring
•Call to organise CSE
for children and youth
•Themes
•Cocreation

19. Development in cocreation
with partners and young people
Participative
Research
Idea
Sessions
Tests of
materials

20. Yearly Poster
’17: focus on social media

21. Manuals for teachers
+ promotion of existing materials
about body image
For interactive screens:
problems with updating
About stereotypes

22. Campaign page for professionals:
www.weekvandelentekriebels.be
(new interface planned for 2018)

23. Media
Coverage in Journals // Radio shows & news // TV news // Blogs

24. YouTube Competition Weetewa
(ed. 2015 & 2016)

25. Twitterstorm
(good for media attention – not to reach audience)

26. Event
(ed.2015 – cancelled in 2016)
Manifesto // Workshops // Academic seminar // Activities // Pop-up library

27. New idea this year
•Support the Flemish Student Association
•Hijack Schools
•Peer education
•Social media videos
Goal ≠ educating or empowering students
Goal = creating sense of urgency in teachers

28. Educational materials
e.g. ‘Between the Sheets’

29. Educational materials
e.g. Sensoa Flag System
A method for assessing and dealing
with sexual behaviour

30. 1.How do we know what is ok
and what is not?
2.How should we react?

31. 4 Flags
Green
acceptable and positive
Yellow
occasional, unacceptable
Red
problematic and unacceptable
Black
Severe and unacceptable

32. How do we know what is ok?
6 criteria
•Mutual consent
•Voluntary
•Equality
•Appropriate for age/development
•Appropriate in this context
•Self-respect/harmless to self

33. A 4 year old girl kisses a 5 year old boy on
the mouth during child play

34. A 4 year old girl kisses a 5 year old boy on
the mouth during child play
• Mutual consent
• Voluntary
• Equality
• Appropriate for age/development
• Appropriate in this context
• Self-respect/harmless to self

35. A naked boy of 10 puts pressure on a girl
of the same age to give him a blow job

36. A naked boy of 10 puts pressure on a girl
of the same age to give him a blow job
• Mutual consent
• Voluntary
• Equality
• Appropriate for
age/development
• Appropriate in this context
• Self-respect/harmless to self

37. Each flag helps to set up a reaction plan
•Green :: ignore or aknowledge that it is ok
•Yellow :: aknowlegde that a boundary is being crossed, say why and
what to do different
•Red ::
• Stop it immediately,
• aknowledge that a boundary is being crossed, say why and what to do
different,
• punish if relevant
•Black ::
• Stop it immediately,
• aknowledge that a boundary is being crossed, say why and what to do
different,
• punish,
• if necessary report to police and/or other relevant authorities

38. a site for vulnerable migrants:
www.zanzu.be

41. work in progress
• Very basic teacher manuals, based on WHO Standards for Sexuality
Education
• Researching how to educate children 8-12y (offline)
• Getting CSE into Education students’ curriculums
• Getting CSE into the general Flemish education curriculum

42. Thank you
wannes.magits@sensoa.be
www.sensoa.be