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Student Health Center

Sexual Health

Services | Resources

Goal

The goal of this program is to provide to students information, enhance skill development and empower individual decision making relative to healthy choices in personal reproductive health.

The Sexual Health Program is staffed by professional health educator, trained and competent student peer health educators and student assistants.  For any of the services listed below call 916.278.6461 or drop by room 122 in the Student Health Center.

Services

  • Educational Presentations – available to classes, student groups and organizations or various aspects of sexual health including birth control, sexually transmitted infections and safer sex.
  • Family PACT Education Component – Family PACT Program provides clinical services for family planning reproductive health at no cost to low-income residents. Women and men are eligible if they reside in California, are at risk of pregnancy or causing pregnancy, have a gross family income at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level, and have no other source of health care coverage for family planning services. For more info on Family PACT click here..
  • Individual Counseling – students can been seen for a 1:1 visit with either a professional health educator or a Sexual Health peer health educator.  Counseling sessions address personal concerns such as birth control. sexually transmitted infections, safer-sex practices, sexual decision-making and sexual communication. 
  • Safer Sex Kits – individuals can receive free kits which contain condoms, lubricant and sexual information.

 

Resources

The Sexual Health Program offers literature and referral to the following websites.  These websites have been reviewed by the 2007-2008 group of Sexual Health Peer Health Educators – who encourage you to visit them as great sexual health resources.

Sexual Health Peer Health Educators
Top Website Picks - Spring 2008

On behalf of the Peer Health Education crew, we compiled a list of websites for students that relate to sexual and reproductive health.

www.seuxalhealth.com - This website talks about everything from love and relationships to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), and has topics relating to both male and female sexual health issues.

www.gurl.com - This website includes charts about STI’s and birth control, information about menstruation, the male and female anatomy, and advice on how to decrease the risk of contracting an STI. The website is also a good resource on topics such as pregnancy, sexual preference, sexual feelings, and abstinence.

www.arhp.org -  This website is geared towards the health professional - so it's not the basics.  It's always nice to "kick it up a notch" and challenge yourself with new information. This website touches on the connection between nutrition and sexual health issues, e.g. folate, calcium.  This website has interactive tools as well as an entire section on patient education materials. 

www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/Cat7.html - This site includes a “questions and answers” of the week section, which gives you the most recently published inquiries and responses which is updated every Friday. You can also find health information by subject via a search of the ever-growing Go Ask Alice - - - which contains nearly 3,000 previously-posted questions and answers.

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/sexualhealthissues.html - This site contains information on anatomy, STIs, sexual dysfunction, general medical information, and also contains links to other websites. 

www.womenshealthmatters.ca/centres/sex/index.html - This site is wonderful to search for different types of information pertaining to women's health. The main goal of the site is to inform women of health issues such as aging, cancer, and reproductive health.

www.teenwire.com - This website is fun, has useful information, and includes a video on how to correctly put a condom on!