Spotlight on Our Shift to Online Learning

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Spotlight on Our Shift to Online Learning

When our school clients switched to remote-learning in the spring, we, like so many other educators, figured out a brand new way to teach.

We’ve learned about so many online tools for teaching, but thankfully lots of the familiar elements of our workshops are part of our e-learning program, and a lot of the questions from kids are reassuringly the same. Teens are wondering about body parts and media messages and masturbation and just what exactly causes a pregnancy, or wondering if they can make their sex-ed teacher laugh. (They often can. One of the perks of the job). But some questions we’ve never had to answer before: one young person asked “will I ever have a first kiss because of covid?”

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Public Health in a Pandemic--Guest Blogger Laura Gulizia

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Public Health in a Pandemic--Guest Blogger Laura Gulizia

“Seriously?” I say to myself as I hear that word on my television: pandemic. Oh, sure I know what that means since my major at Cal State Northridge is Public Health and as a student, I am taught and tested on the different disease outbreaks pretty much every semester. Yep, I chose to be in Public Health about a year before the global pandemic that is called COVID 19 decided to spread like wildfire throughout this world. So, what does this mean for me?

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Single In A Pandemic--Guest Blogger Rosie DePaul

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Single In A Pandemic--Guest Blogger Rosie DePaul

So you want to talk about what it’s like to be single? Like really, extraordinarily single. Well, try being single and have your roommate move out during a pandemic.

After a year of a level of socializing I had previously only aspired to, I returned from a work trip and the world shut down. Within 5 days, I had lost two of my three jobs and all the coworkers that went along with that, my roommate had moved home to a different state, and I was quarantined with just my kitchen, cello, tv, and running shoes to keep me occupied.

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Intersections of Sexuality and a Viral Pandemic

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Intersections of Sexuality and a Viral Pandemic

Today marks our company’s first cancelled sex-ed classes of the Coronavirus outbreak.

We are working to figure out, along with our client schools and the rest of Los Angeles, what we can do to help prevent the spread of illness and care for our communities—below are a few early thoughts; feel free to share yours.

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