Digital Media and Sexuality Education:

How Youth on Chicago’s South Side “Get It”

A Presentation by the Section of

Family Planning and students at the

Woodlawn Charter School

Chicago, IL

Overview

•Section of Family Planning at the

University of Chicago

•Mission of the Digital Media and

Sexuality Education Project

Summer Service Partnership

Digital Media and Health Education Class

•Take Away Points

•Next Steps

•Patient Services

•Research

•Policy

•Education

http://chicagofamilyplanning.uchicago.edu

Digital Media and Sexuality

Education Project

Mission:

To promote sexual and reproductive health among (and in

collaboration) with urban youth of color using new digital

media.

Summer Service Partnership

Digital Media and Health Education Class

Summer Service Partnership

http://www.thepill.com/thepill/

Online Scavenger HuntDigital Media and Sexual Health Education Class

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https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&pli=1&formke

y=dG1TLTM1X0hfdmdONkZiaDg1ZjVHU3c6MQ#gid=0

http://kidshealth.org/teen/sexual_health/

http://www.thepill.com/thepill/

/http://www.becomeaplayer.com/articles/makeherorgasm.htm

/http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/ATLAS_EN/html/oral_intercourse.html

Take Away Points

Sexual health websites geared toward urban youth of

color are few and hard to locate

Youth want a “safe space” where they can ask

questions without judgment

Expand the frameworks and messages to teach youth

how to think critically about norms of gender and

sexuality

Next Steps

Digital Storytelling Workshop with the Center for Digital

Storytelling (April 18 – 21)

Literature Review

Criteria: sexual health program interventions aimed at

adolescence age 13 – 24 using new digital media

Questions?

Thoughts?

Special Thanks to

Rebecca Commito and

Whitney Westmorland

THANK YOU!