Sex education reaches the classrooms of the adolescents of the Marina Alta

February 13 from 2018 - 15: 38

Celia Marín

Sexuality and the importance of maintaining safe sexual practices are playing a leading role these days in the 2º and 3º ESO classrooms of the Marina Alta educational centers.

There, midwives and nurses of the Department of Health of Dénia teach some workshops that are part of the Sexual Education Intervention Program (PIES) whose general objective is education in values that promote a positive experience of one's sexuality and sexual behaviors chords with the healthiest options.

Los responsables del Programa PIES del Departamento de Salud de Dénia señalan la importancia de educar a los adolescentes en su sexualidad. Silvia Crespo, Supervisora de matronas del Departamento de Salud de Dénia, subraya que «la edad media de las relaciones sexuales ha disminuido en los últimos años. Es básico educar a los adolescentes para evitar embarazos no deseados y prevenir prácticas sexuales de riesgo».

The FEET is an activity of the Health and Education Councils. The overall coordination of the program corresponds to the General Directorate of Public Health. The program is developed thanks to the joint work of the health promotion technicians, who develop the coordination and training tasks of the professionals together with the sexologists of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Centers; and primary care staff, especially nurses and midwives, who teach the workshops in the classrooms, in collaboration with the educational psychologists or teachers responsible for the PIES in schools.

The workshops contain a basic set of subjects and objectives adapted to compulsory secondary education, collected in three competency units:

Unit 1. We are sexed beings. Sexuality as experiential experience.
Unit 2. I explore, I recognize and I mean my body.
Unit 3. The sexual behaviors Risk assessment and decision.