Positive, evidence-based sexuality ed for real people.
We provide families, educators and communities positive, inclusive, and common-sense tips and resources on how to raise sexually healthy kids.
We wrote this:
Talk soon, Talk often: a guide for parents talking to their
kids about sex.
Free download.
Our services
Curriculum development and resource design
Jenny started her career as a community development worker to design HIV and sexual health promotion for CALD communities and vulnerable young people. She went on to work in national research programs to translate research findings into useful and impactful education campaigns, curricula, videos, websites and training programs.
She works with communities to translate their priorities, questions and solutions into accessible formats.
Parent and carer education
Most parents want to talk to their kids about sexuality but are nervous about saying the wrong thing. We want to help parents and carers to feel more confident to talk with their kids in positive and supportive ways.
The Hum Academy supports schools to introduce these issues to parents through our 30-minute presentation followed by Q&A.
Professional learning
We provide training for teachers, youth workers, peer educators and people working in fields such as health promotion.
The training aims to develop your understanding of child sexual development, hands-on teaching and talking strategies, curriculum-based programs, and dealing with discomfort – your own and your students’.
She works with communities to translate their priorities, questions and solutions into accessible formats.
Seminars and Professional Learning
Jenny presents at international conferences about ethics-based sexuality education, parent education, inclusive teaching and more. Our conference keynotes, updates and training cover the latest research and pragmatic guidance on what and how to teach.
Other topic areas can include: child and adolescent sexuality research, affirmative consent laws and how to teach effectively about consent (beyond the law), children’s social media and internet use, peer-to-peer sexual abuse, trans and gender diversity.
Our director
Jenny Walsh
SPEAKER, WRITER, RESEARCHER, TEACHER
Jenny has created some of Australia's most popular sex and relationships teaching resources. She loves talking with parents and carers, teachers and other youth professionals, acknowledging the barriers and personal discomfort we feel about these topics. She wants to take the secrecy and shame away from learning about this important part of being human.
She is currently updating the Victorian sexuality education primary school program which she originally wrote in 2009. It will be released in 2024. .
Her work is underpinned by sexual ethics frameworks (Carmody 2009, and Lamb 2021). An ethical approach to sexuality education means that we address sexual health and well-being from a communal standpoint which includes learning how to take care of oneself, and about the impacts of our actions on others.
Jenny is an internationally recognised expert in the social aspects of child and
adolescent sexual development, and in the development of cutting-edge
materials.
She is a gifted educator and communicator with a strong commitment to the
work she does. She embraces diversity in all her work in ways which are
demystifying and reassuringly non-judgemental.
- Emeritus Professor AO Anne Mitchell, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
Interested in working together? Let’s chat.
hello@thehumacademy.com