Mission Statement
Empower all ages to achieve sexual wellness through access to comprehensive, sex-positive, inclusive sexual health education and services
Who is Ok Sweet?
Ok SWEET is Dawn Ansdell who is a certified sexual health educator and a nurse practitioner. A cis-gendered daughter, wife, and mother of 2 school-aged boys with over 20 years in health care.
The goal is to deliver comprehensive, sexual wellness education from an inclusive, sex-positive, science-based lens to ensure everyone can accept their body as it is and make space for all bodies to thrive.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Masters of Science in Professional Practice of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner)
- Developing Skills in Reproductive and Sexual Health Care
- Certified Sexual Health Educator
What is Ok Sweet?
A service dedicated to providing sex-positive, inclusive, science-based information so all ages feel empowered to embrace and accept their sexual self.
Education sessions can be tailored to suit any age or topic. These can be taught 1:1, group or classroom settings or virtually. A range of topics to be considered:
- Reproductive anatomy and physiology
- Physiology of reproduction and how families are made
- Consent and the law
- Spectrum of gender
- Puberty changes
- Healthy relationships and sexual decision making
- Contraception options and links to local services
- Sexually shared infections: Prevention, testing and treatments
- Becoming a supportive adult in the sexual well-being of the youth in your life
Why Ok SWEET?
Comprehensive, inclusive, sex-positive education has been proven to enhance the health and well being of young people and adults. Education around this very important part of the human experience can enhance physical health awareness, improve self esteem, protect against intimate partner violence and exploitation, encourage healthy relationships, reduce sexually trasmitted infections and unintended pregnancies while increasing tolerance and acceptance of diversity.
Without education from credible sources, curiosity about bodies leads to vieweing information from disreputable sources such as porn and social media who anxiously waiting to fill the knowledge gap with misinformation and inappropriate images. Comprehensive sexual wellness education will help empower everyone to be able to discern the complexities of what is really happening on screen and what the expectations are for conducting themselves in intimate relationships.
We don’t expect people to learn algebra without understanding the foundations of math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) first….so how can we expect sexual health to be any different? Start early, use science, answer honestly and be available. Kids take in only what they can comprehend and disregard what isn’t currently relavent to them. Research has shown that youth given comprehensive, sexual health education are more likely to start having sexual relationships later, have healthier relationships and will be safer in those relationships. Give them those tools today!!
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