Be True to You: Sexuality Education Program for 12 to 17 year olds

Be True to You Program

Be True to You – Preface

It is important to read the preface first, in order to know the intervention philosophy and the context in which the sessions are held.

Be True to You Program (PDF)
Be True to You – Secondary 1

Animation and detailed content (PowerPoint)
Session 1: Friendships and Peer Pressure
Session 2: Body Image
Session 3: Bullying Prevention
Session 4: Attraction and Dating

Be True to You Program (PDF)
Be True to You – Secondary 2

Animation and detailed content (PowerPoint)
Session 1: Romantic Relationships
Session 2: Preventing the Risks of Sexual Solicitations on Social Media (Part A)
Session 3: Preventing the Risks of Sexual Solicitations on Social Media (Part B)
Session 4: Consent
Session 5: First Times

Be True to You Program (PDF)
Be True to You – Secondary 3

Animation and detailed content (PowerPoint)
Session 1: Body Image
Session 2: Romantic Relationships
Session 3: Sexual Consent
Session 4: Sexualized Behaviour and Social Activities
Session 5: Sexual Behavior

Be True to You Program (PDF)
Be True to You – Secondary 4

Animation and detailed content (PowerPoint)
Session 1: Intimacy and Values
Session 2: Sexual Consent
Session 3: Sexual Behaviour and the Influence of Sexualization in Media

Be True to You Program (PDF)
Be True to You – Secondary 5

Session 1: Sexual Diversity and Gender Pluralism
Session 2: Romantic Relationships
Session 3: Desire and Pleasure

20 validated and turnkey sexuality education sessions (including a slideshow accompanying the animation for each of the sessions) to counter the phenomena of social hypersexualization and early sexualization among young people, boys and girls, elderly from 12 to 17 years old.

*Prix Égalité Thérèse-Casgrain 2023 (Secrétariat à la condition féminine, Gouvernement du Québec).

The Be True to You program is primarily intended for workers who are inclined to work with young people in high school.

To implement a sexuality education process, this program can be used by workers from various backgrounds or from various professional backgrounds:

Education, health and social services

• School principals and teachers, secondary school teachers
• Members of governing boards or parent committees
• Nurses, social workers, psychoeducators, psychologists, sexologists and specialized educators specialized educators
• Supervisors in schools and educators
• Animators of spiritual life and community involvement
• Policemen, policewomen
• Etc.

Community environment

• Community organizers
• Youth workers from youth centers or other youth community groups
• Outreach workers
• Workers in women’s groups
• Etc.

Others

• Parents
• Any other person working with young people

The objectives of the Be True to You program are:

• To encourage students to think about, friendship, love and sexual awakening, dating, romantic relationships, emotional and sexual intimacy and egalitarian relationships and consider what these concepts mean and imply, in a manner appropriate for their age and development level.
• To foster critical thinking about the commercialization of sexuality and its impact on their identity formation, perceptions of relationships and understanding of emotional and sexual intimacy.
• To encourage the development of skills that allow students to be more self-assertive and to handle sexual activity in a way that respects their and their partner’s sense of privacy and boundaries.

To achieve the objectives of Be True to You program, while taking into account priorities established for sexuality education, the sessions cover a range of topics based on the developmental level of the students, their age, their school level and a review of relevant literature.

Fourteen topics are covered in the 20 sessions:

• Among the 20 sessions of the Be True to You program, some include a part A and a part B which can represent two sessions of 75 minutes.

Each session contains:

• Links to the programs of the Ministère
• Educational goals
• Sequence and instruction
• Worksheets for the students and for the teachers
• Slideshows (PowerPoint) (see above)

For educational interventions in schools that refer to the official programs of the Ministère de l’Éducation and for each of the 20 sessions of the Be True to You program, have also been presented:

• the links with the educational goals and topics in sexuality education, which are associated with the competencies (Studies a cultural reality; Reflects on an ethical question) of the Culture and Citizenship in Québec Program (MEQ, 2022). 
• the links to the detailed content in sexuality education proposed in 2018 (MEES).

*To purchase a paper copy of the Be True to You program (including a binder and tabs), you can order it online from the COOP of the University of Quebec in Montreal.

• Regular price: 54.95$
• Member price: 49.46$
  *Taxes and delivery not included.

Ordering is done in a few easy steps:

1. Create a free account on the Coop UQAM website
2. Select the category “teachers”, “communities” or “companies” and order.
   *Note that it is not mandatory to be a member of the Coop to order.

Following the use of Be True to You, you are invited to send us your comments (anonymously) via our online evaluation questionnaire. To access it, click here: Survey coming soon!