Guest speaker: Sex, Likes and Social Media: Talking to Teens in the Digital Age
At a glance
Guest speaker
Allison Havey
Webinar duration
2 hours
Suitable for
Thrive Licensed Practitioners
CPD
Worth 5 CPD points
Price per place
£72 excl. VAT
Course Outcomes
‘Sex, Likes and Social Media: Talking to Teens in the Digital Age’ is worth 5 CPD points to Thrive Licensed Practitioners.
After 2 hours, you'll leave Allison Havey’s webinar with:
- Insights into the biggest challenges in RSE education today
- What young people are most concerned about and their most frequent questions
- An explanation of ‘enthusiastic consent’ and ‘sexual citizenship’
- Insights into the Online Safety Act, Children's Commissioner Report on Porn 2023, and others
- A consideration of issues arising not addressed in the DfE’s guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023.
Who is it for?
Thrive Licensed Practitioners from secondary settings.
Introducing guest speaker: Allison Havey
Allison Havey is a public speaker, author, and journalist (ABC News, Associated Press, NBC Moscow). She co-founded The RAP Project in 2012, which delivers a variety of workshops on sexual citizenship and other RSE-related topics in over 250 schools.
Wanting to redress the imbalance of speaking mainly in independent schools, she founded the RAP Foundation charity in 2019 which would offer these same sessions but, on a donation-only basis. In the five years of running the charity as CEO, Allison is proud to say the charity reached over 50,000 students. She continues her work speaking to pupils, parents and carers, teachers, corporate audiences in the UK and is expanding abroad.
Originally from New York, she is the mother of two grown up children and lives in north London with her Scottish husband.
What you'll learn
Join us for this two-hour session for secondary school teachers and other professionals, which will focus on how educators can inform and educate young people about mutual respect and mutual consent, whilst navigating the complexities of social media and online platforms.
Allison Havey, journalist, author, and co-founder of the RAP Project, (Raising Awareness and Prevention), will share what thousands of young people are telling her, in person and via anonymous surveys, they are most concerned about and their most frequently asked questions.
Allison informs students of the legal definitions of sex crimes, the meaning of sexual citizenship, and openly discusses, in an age-appropriate and inclusive manner, how social media and online pornography are influencing attitudes, behaviours, body image and mental health, and what a healthy relationship looks like.
Delegates will be given context of the latest Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) statutory guidelines from the Department for Education, as well the latest RSE-relevant studies, statistics, and trends.
The DfE says parents and carers should be involved and informed of all sex education lessons. How can professionals best engage parents and carers to inspire them to be equal stakeholders in educating their children in these all-important life skills?
Course structure
2-hour webinar.