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Title: Getting It Online


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Getting It Online
  • Sexual Health Education using MSN Instant Chat

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VISION A community of informed people who achieve
their potential and who contribute to the health
and well-being of individuals and the community.
MISSION Planned Parenthood of Toronto is a
community-based, pro-choice agency committed to
the principles of equity and to providing
accessible and inclusive services which promote
healthy sexuality and informed decision-making to
the people of the City of Toronto.
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Programming Services
  • Teen Programming
  • Primary Health Care Services
  • Anti-Homophobia Education (T.E.A.C.H.)
  • Community Health Promotion
  • Womens Programming
  • Community Based Research
  • Service Provider Training
  • Young Men/Newcomer Youth/Young Parents/LGBTQ Youth

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Teen Programming
  • 1993 Teen Sex InfoLine (TSI) accepts 1st call
  • 2002 TSI launches new website for teens,
    Spiderbytes.ca, providing 24-hour a day answers
    to frequently asked questions about sexual health
    for youth
  • Peer volunteers begin offering peer-based
    information via email and MSN Instant Messenger
  • Currently, the Teen Sex Infoline and Spiderbytes
    Instant Messaging operate Monday through
    Wednesday, 4-9, and Saturday and Sunday, 12-6

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Volunteers
  • 16 19 years old
  • 10 week training course
  • Orientation
  • Evaluation

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Training
  • 10 week training course
  • Orientation
  • Planned Parenthood Values
  • Healthy Sexuality
  • Anti Homophobia
  • Anti Oppression
  • Birth Control Methods, ECP
  • Pregnancy Options
  • Abortion
  • STIs
  • Healthy Relationships
  • Sexual Pleasure

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Teen Programming Benefits
  • Peer to Peer
  • Social hub changes in early adolescence
  • Effective way to reach youth in their early teens
  • Draws on credibility younth enjoy among their
    peers
  • Communication style and demeanor accepted by
    peers
  • Youth Involvement
  • Developed initiative specifically envisioning
    youth involvement
  • Youth participation means recognizing strengths,
    intelligence and interests
  • Beyond tokenism

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Program Statistics
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Advantages
  • Confidential
  • Private
  • Free
  • Easier to monitor than phone
  • Disclose without being overheard, client paces
    session

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Challenges
  • Prank clients, flame
  • Network failure
  • Statistic collection
  • Promotion dollars
  • Audible hints

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Hot Topics
  • 16 birth control options and emergency
    contraception
  • 16 virginity, first time sex acts, or sexual
    readiness
  • 15 pregnancy
  • 9 womens health and menstruation
  • 8 STIs
  • 4 mens health

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Common Topics
  • BC/ECP
  • Virginity/Sexual Readiness/Am I normal?
  • Pregnancy
  • Womens Health
  • STIs
  • Mens Health

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Emerging Trends
  • Cellular technology
  • MSN Passport/Windows Live Messenger
  • 3-way

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-) Thx GTG
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Contact
Susan Flynn Director of Research Program
Development sflynn_at_ppt.on.ca Shawn
Fowler Coordinator of Teen Programming
sfowler_at_ppt.on.ca
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