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Conference Program – at a glance

Time Program Speaker/s
8:15 am Registration and coffee  
9:00am - 9:15am Welcome to conference Cecelia Gore, Director of Education and Communication Services, FPQ
Welcome to Country Des Sandy, Indigenous Elder
9:15am - 10:45am Keynote addresses Barry Salmon, A/Commissioner, Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian.
A Changing Childhood – Trends and issues impacting on childhood today
Pam Blackman, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society National Clearinghouse for Sexuality Education Teaching Resources.
What do young people really know and really do? Results of the 4th National Survey of Australian Secondary Students: Sexual Health
10:45am - 11:15am Morning tea  
11:15am - 12:00am Panel: What do young people think?
YMCA Youth Parliament
Chair: Angela Wunsch, FPQ
12:00am - 1:15pm Breakout sessions Programs & research
School sexuality education programs
Advocacy and research
1:15pm - 2:00pm Lunch Please feel free to view the exhibits and enjoy lunch provided.
Poster presentations
2:00pm - 3:00pm Breakout sessions School sexuality education programs
Inclusive sexuality education: Disability
School sexuality education programs
3:00pm - 3:50pm Panel: What supports sexuality education in Queensland schools?

Chair:

Cecelia Gore. FPQ

Panel:

Norm Hart.
President, Queensland Association of State School Principals

Chesleigh Hargreaves.
Queensland President, Australian Special Education Principals’ Association

Kim Lavin.
Acting Principal Education Officer Quality Assurance Unit, Queensland Studies Authority

Jenene Rosser.
Manager Education Services, Independent Schools Queensland

Karen Conlon.
Senior Education Officer Q2 Team | Teaching and Learning Branch, Department of Education and Training

Adele Rice.
Principal, Milperra State High School, Intensive English Language Centre, Department of Education and Training

Erin Flanagan.
Health, Sport and Physical Education Program, School of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland

3:50pm - 4:00pm Close  

Breakout sessions - 12.00am – 1.15pm

Room 1: Main Conference Room
Programs and research
Exploring university students’ reflections of school sexuality education Georgia Richards, Amy Watson, Alana Arnold, Sarah Smith, Lisa Thenfeldt, Clifton Hsieh & Rosemary Aird. Queensland University of Technology: School of Public Health . Brisbane, Qld
At UQHM: Preparing teacher education graduates for the rigours of sexuality education: the good, the bad and the ugly Dr Louise McCuaig, Julie Smith, Angela Verniquet, Erin Flanagan. University of Queensland : Department of Human Movement. Brisbane, Qld
The whole school approach to sexuality education in Victoria Steven O’Connor , Senior Policy Officer Sexuality Education Policy and Project Development, Student Wellbeing & Health Support, DEECD, Melbourne, Vic
Room 2: Bribie Room
School sexuality education programs
Sexuality education in our school Carla Walker, Yeronga State School, Brisbane, Qld
Fully alive Primary school Program Our Lady of the Way Primary, Jo Scott-Pegum and Alish Conley. Brisane, Qld
A teachers journey with HRE Cary Gordon, Glenvale State School , Toowoomba, Qld
Room 3: Moreton Room
Advocacy and research
Sexuality education as part of child sexual abuse prevention Jennifer Sanderson. Griffith University , Brisbane , Qld
Strengthening Sexuality Education Nina Fotinatos, Jenene Burke, Amanda Smith & Bernadette Duffy, University of Ballarat , Vic
The S word Miriam Taylor , Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld
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Breakout sessions - 2.00pm – 3.00pm

Room 1: Main Conference Room
School sexuality education programs
Sex Education in Schools: one size does not fit all Meg Logan, Cooparoo Secondary College, Brisbane, Qld
Sexuality Education in an Integrated Middle Years Setting Marguerite Westacott and Debruoniva Richards, Blackall Range Independent School, Sunshine Coast
Sexuality Education in the Health and Physical Education Curriculum in the Far North Sharon Jones, Smithfield State High School, Cairns, Qld
Room 2: Bribie Room
Inclusive sexuality education: Disability
One Class Once a year to All Classes Once a Week Aaron Sheppard, and Leigh Murray, Geebung Special School, Brisbane, Qld
Teaching sexuality education to students with special needs - How we are navigating the mine field Emma Davies, Pine Rivers Special School, Brisbane, Qld
Marcia Erdeljac, Pine Rivers Special School, Brisbane, Qld
We can talk about it – A Collaborative Approach by QHealth, Education Queensland and FPQ Lisa Condon (SBYHN), & Beryl Plummer (HOD Special Needs) Tamborine State High School, Tamborine Mt, Qld
Room 3: Moreton Room
School sexuality education programs
Workshops (limit 20 participants)
Resources and activities to Promote a School Based HRE Program Meg Murr, Chancellor State College, Sunshine Coast, Qld & Jo Stewart, Family Planning Queensland, Sunshine Coast, Qld
Sex Factor: A sexuality education through comedy and dramatisation Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Alison Webb, Melbourne, Vic
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Posters - 1:35pm – 1:55pm

Chair: Georgina Livingstone
Educators in the front line - handling individual disclosure Pamela Doherty , Children by Choice
Programming and Productive Pedagogies in HRE Megan Murr, Chancelor State College
Jo Stewart, Family Planning Queenslan.
Evaluation of Everyone's got a bottom: Early Childhood Prevention of Sexual Abuse Resource Dr Jennifer Sanderson, Griffith University
Holly Brennan, Family Planning Queensland
Consulting with young people about sexual health Angela Wunsch and Yvonne Black, Family Planning Queensland
What has sex got to do with it? Reconsidering vulnerability in young people based on findings of a retrospective chart audit of under 16 year olds attending Family Planning clinics in Queensland Margot Kingston and Dr Caroline Harvey, Family Planning Queensland
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