Vancouver Coastal Health says its 35 volunteers, ages 17 to 25, are the best way to teach high school students about consent or infections.
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Theo Micolino, 24, is a volunteer with Vancouver Coastal Health’s BLUSH program. Arlen Redekop/PNGTheo Micolino, 24, recalls that the sex-ed they received in Vancouver elementary and secondary schools was good, but not inclusive enough.
They began volunteering with BLUSH in August 2021, and at first they were nervous to say certain words or discuss certain topics in front of the teens. But they confidently evolved to teaching several workshops a week.Article content More recently, Micolino has focused on speaking to youth in resource classes, and modifies the workshops to best fit their needs.
Maddie Baker, a volunteer with Vancouver Coastal Health’s BLUSH program, who helps to teach sexual health to high school students, in Vancouver July 5, 2023. Photo by Nick ProcayloBaker can remember when BLUSH volunteers spoke about the concept of consent in her Grade 8 gym class, and it opened her eyes to what makes a relationship healthy or not healthy.
Baker did not receive BLUSH classes in Grade 9 or 10 because of courses being curtailed during the COVID-19 pandemic.during the tricky high school years, hormones can race ahead of permission.Article content She was paired with another volunteer, and began teaching in classrooms in December — a process that she found quite terrifying at first, but has become easier with each of the more than 20 times she has now done this in high schools.Article content
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