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

Recent research suggests that religious communities offering 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.

What: Learn how to talk about sex, explore available faith-based comprehensive sexuality education curricula, learn from persons who are already providing this education in their faith communities, learn how to help parents who want to talk about sex with their children.

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

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Click here to Register ONLINE. (See other ways to register below.)

Rev. Steve Clapp is the president of Christian Community, a research organization in Ft. Wayne, Indiana dedicated to researching and improving various areas of congregational life.
Steve will share the important research he recently conducted with teens across a variety of congregations and how it can shape sexuality education in our congregations.

An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, Rev. Steve Clapp, co-authored the book, Faith Matters: teenagers, religion, and sexuality. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the conference. For more information, see:

http://www.churchstuff.com/faithmatters.html

Let’s Talk about Sex

Comprehensive Sexuality Education for Faith Communities

Date: Thursday, November 8, 2007

Time: 8:45 am - 2:00 pm

Place: Matthews Episcopal Church
                  330 N. Hubbards Lane, Louisville, KY

Cost:   $25 per person

Conference Agenda

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

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

9:00- 9:45 - Keynote: "Faith Matters," Rev. Steve Clapp

9:45-10:00 - Break

10:00-11:45 - Workshops

11:45-12:30 - Eat Lunch

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

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

1:45-2:00 - WrapUp

Workshops:
1) Keeping It Real, Courtney Renee Avery
2) Supporting Parents To Talk About Sex, Rev. Steve Clapp
3) Review of Adaptable Curricula

To Register: There are 3 ways to register.

1. Register ONLINE by clicking here. You may pay by credit card using a secure third-party. KRCRC never see your credit card information, only your name and e-mail address. This is the easiest way to register.

2. Send a check made payable to "KRCRC" and mail with your name, address, phone and email address to: KRCRC, P.O. Box 4065, Louisville, KY 40204.

3. Call or e-mail KRCRC and pay at the door.
Phone message: 866-606-0988 (toll-free)
E-mail: info@krcrc.org.

NOTE: KRCRC will confirm your registration. If you do not hear back from us consider that we did not get your registration and contact us again.

“Keeping it Real” Workshop Presenter

Courtney 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, a model for faith-based teen dialogue on sex and sexuality.

For more information on the National Black Church Initiative and the “Keeping It Real” curriculum, see: RCRC’s Black Church Initiative.

“Sex Education: A Reality Check"

Lunchtime speaker and panel moderator, 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.