Let's Talk About Sex! 

The Kentucky Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (KRCRC) is happy to sponsor our first sexuality education conference that will explore the important links between faith and sexuality education.

Recent research suggests that religious communities that offer comprehensive sexuality education in a safe and nurturing environment help teens make healthy choices, delaying sexual intercourse until a later age. Organizations offering faith-based comprehensive sexuality education provide an important foundation for personal decision-making grounded in values, medically accurate information, and in an understanding of how faith relates to sexuality.

Participants will learn how to talk about sex, learn about comprehensive sexuality education curriculum, learn from persons who are already providing this education in their communities, learn how to support parents who want to talk with their children about sex, and more.

Audience:  Religious educators, clergy, parents, youth workers, social workers and interested persons of all faiths.
 

Program Schedule

8:15-8:45 - Registration, Continental Breakfast, Resource Tables

8:45-9:00 - Welcome, Invocation, Introduction of Keynote Speaker

9:00- 9:45 - Keynote: Rev. Steve Clapp

9:45-10:00 - Break

10:00-11:45 - Workshops 

•     Keeping it Real, Courtney Avery
•    Sex Education for Parents, Steve Clapp
•    Review of Adaptable Curricula  

11:45-12:30 - Lunch

12:30-1:00 - Sex Education: A Reality Check, Bani Hines Hudson   

1:00-1:45 - Panel, Q&A and Discussion

1:45-2:00 -  WrapUp 
 

Keynote Speaker
Rev. Steve Clapp is Project Director of The Christian Community, a nonprofit research and program development organization which focuses on local churches and the communities they serve. Rev. Clapp is the author or coauthor of over 30 books on congregational life, including Faith Matters: Teenagers, Religion & SexualityThe Gift of Sexuality: Empowerment for Religious Teens. He also leads workshops and serves as a consultant to congregations. The Christian Community affirms and celebrates the diversity of humankind and believes that congregations have a responsibility to share God’s love with all people. It works with Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish congregations, as well as with people who are not involved in any religious faith.
 

Keeping it Real
Courney Renee Avery is the Midwest Regional Coordinator for the National Black Church Initiative and director of a Chicago-based rape crisis center.  Ms. Avery will conduct a workshop on the Keeping it Real Curriculum.
 

Sex Eduation: A Reality Check
Bani Hines Hudson will talk about the realities from her experience "in the field".  Ms. Hudson is a community development specialist and consultant with expertise in family sex education, women and gender issues, and diversity programming.  She promotes comprehensive sex education, and reproductive justice in collaboration with families, faith communities, organizations and the University of Louisville's Saturday Academy.