Our Impact

For 50 years, we’ve been leading the way in the areas of sexuality, healthy relationships, human rights, gender identity, sexual orientations, equality and consent.

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WE TEACH, WE TRAIN, WE ADVOCATE

Education, Training and Counselling Services Provided Through Centre for Sexuality

We teach individuals how to achieve healthy relationships by learning the skills of decision-making, communication and consent.

Centre for Sexuality provides relationship and sexual health education to roughly 10,000 youths every year through our school based education programs. Our WiseGuyz program connects with over 300 young men a year and our newly designed program for girls tackles issues like self-esteem, healthy body image, gender norms and media literacy.

We train professionals, so they have the comfort and skills to integrate sexual health into their practice.

Since 2009, our Training Centre has impacted over 35,000 professionals working in social agencies, institutions and workplaces, building their capacity to support safe and inclusive environments for their clients, customers and staff.

We advocate to ensure policies that support healthy sexuality across the lifespan are integrated into organizations and adopted by governments.

Centre for Sexuality is a nationally recognized, community-based organization delivering programs and services that work to normalize sexuality and sexual health across the lifespan. We have been leading the way in the areas of sexuality, healthy relationships, human rights, gender identity, sexual orientation, equality and consent for 50 years in the Calgary community.

10,000

Youths educated every year through our school based programs.

300

Young men educated every year through our WiseGuyz program.

35,000

Professionals educated through our training centre since 2009.

The Centre for Sexuality normalizes sexuality and sexual health in Alberta and across Canada by providing evidence-informed, non-judgmental sexual health programs and services. Our work is community-based, prevention-focused, and nationally recognized. We have been leading the way in the areas of sexuality, healthy relationships, human rights, gender identity, sexual orientation, equality, and consent for 50 years in the Calgary community.

Our Vision

Sexual well-being for all

Mission

We teach, we train and we advocate to support healthy bodies, healthy relationships and healthy communities.

Our Values

Social Justice / Feminism

We support and defend sexual health rights for all, and we are passionate about positive social change. We work alongside communities to elevate the voices of those who experience barriers to their achievement of healthy relationships and sexual well-being. All our work is focused on creating a more fair and just society where individuals are not disadvantaged based on their sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, ability, age, or family status.

Self-Determination

We respect the physical and emotional integrity of every person and their right to make their own decisions about their body and their relationships. We support individuals with empathy and without judgment. We give people accurate information, evidence-based skills and tools to make informed choices.

Collaboration

We seek out individuals and organizations to partner with for the benefit of our clients and communities. We are intentionally inclusive, and our circle is ever-expanding. We leverage the power of many to achieve greater impact.

Prevention

In working toward the achievement and maintenance of healthy relationships and sexual well-being for all, our role is primarily prevention and health promotion focused. To this end, we are largely upstream purveyors of change. We contribute to building the capacities of individuals to be sexually healthy across their lifetimes and we support systems and institutions to create environments that prevent negative sexual health outcomes from occurring in the first place.

Our Theory of Change

If all individuals have the opportunity to develop their capabilities, and are born, learn, live, work, play, and love in healthy supportive environments, then all individuals can assert personal autonomy and agency (choice) to achieve and maintain sexual health across their lifetimes.

Our Strategic Directions

Strategic Goal 1

Work systematically and comprehensively with organizations and institutions to build healthy supportive environments.

Strategic Goal 2

Strengthen action by communities and/or groups to build sexual health supportive environments and social transformation through community development & mobilization.

Strategic Goal 3

Facilitate personal development and the acquisition of life capacities in individuals from priority populations.

Strategic Goal 4

Change systems and structures by contributing to the creation of health promoting public policy that supports sexual health equity and wellbeing.

Strategic Goal 5

Generate and extend knowledge, and find innovative solutions to advance sexual health and sexual health equity, including building own organizational capacities.

Strategic Goal 6

Intentionally grow the Centre’s brand and build understanding of our work, provincially and nationally, within the arenas of healthy public policy, community health and wellness and social justice.

Strategic Goal 7

Diversify and grow our philanthropic and revenue generation streams for long term sustainability of the organization.