Chapel Hill Nonprofit Works To Make Sex Ed More Inclusive of LGBTQ Students
One Chapel Hill nonprofit is working to make sexuality education more LGBTQ inclusive for local high school students.
The Compass Center for Women and Families provides career and financial education, domestic violence crisis and prevention programs, assistance with legal resources and youth health programs.
The center currently provides two school-based youth empowerment programs in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools – one of which is Teens Climb High. Teens Climb High offers medically accurate and inclusive sexual health education to 9th grade students.
While North Carolina schools are required to teach sex education, the curriculum is not required to be comprehensive. Current standards do not require educators to teach about consent or sexual orientation.