SEXUAL HEALTH TEACHING RESOURCE LAUNCHES THIS WEEK

SENIOR SCHOOL TEACHERS WILL HAVE NEW SEXUAL HEALTH TEACHING RESOURCE available to them this week as Contraception Education launches new product SHARE (Sexual Health And Relationship Education)  –  designed specifically to use in Personal Social Health Education (PSHE) lessons.

After developing CONTRACEPTION: The Board Game® for senior school age students back in 2001, ex nurse and senior nursing lecturer Barbara Hastings-Asatourian set up  Contraception Education, a social enterprise company. The award winning board game is now used across the country by half of the senior schools in the UK and has been translated into several languages across the continent.

Explaining the new teaching resource, Managing Director Barbara says: “SHARE is an extension of the board game really.  It is a binder full of lesson plans for teachers to use in PSHE on a variety of topics from Sex and Relationship Education to Pregnancy, Child Birth and Safe Sex.  In fact there are over 30 lesson plans there for teachers to use.”

All these resources are available to purchase at Contraception Education new E-commerce site which is managed by Barbara’s team.

Always keen to learn and move on,  Barbara has packed her career in the nursing profession starting out as a nurse, progressing to midwife then health visitor in the 1970s and for 18 years was senior lecturer in Nursing and Public Health at Salford University from which she retired last year.

 “Thinking back, my interest in teenage pregnancy stemmed from my midwifery days and the times when working in the inner city as a health visitor certainly got me thinking;” says Barbara reminiscing over her career.

Such is her passion for anything health related Barbara has spoken at conferences across the world, is registered on the School Speakers circuit and has no hesitation to speaking to young men at organisations such as Wise Up.

Barbara’s entrepreneurial spirit has been spotted by many; so much so, she was invited to tell her inspirational story at the first “Nurse First” conference a couple of weeks ago.