Stephanie Mitelman

Topics

Presentations

Sexuality Plus: A Prevention Program for Teens

Understanding Adolescent Sexuality & Teaching Sex Ed

Understanding Adolescent Sexuality
A workshop for parents.

Summary Profile

Stephanie Mitelman is a certified sexuality educator, and a Canadian certified family educator. She is a National trainer on issues of sexual health education.  Her work focuses primarily on prevention of pregnancy and STI/ HIV transmission.

Stephanie is an Instructor at McGill University as well as at Concordia University. She has developed workshops about adolescent sexuality for parents of teens, and is a regular consultant for schools and teachers. Her intensive training “Understanding Adolescent Sexuality and Teaching Sex Ed” is offered in every major city across Canada for 2006-2007. 

Stephanie has made contributions in establishing programs of sexual health in First Nations communities of Canada, where she integrates knowledge and practice for several weeks a year. Her work with Health Canada has helped further train leaders in Native communities.

She is also the creator of a full line of tools for teachers in circulation throughout Canada, including; the Sex Education Classroom Activity Kits, Sexpressions Sexual Health Trivia DVD Game, Anatomy Posters and the Lecture Series.

She is a member of the Executive Board for The Sexual Health Network of Quebec (formerly Planned Parenthood of Montreal), and a past member of the AASECT committee for certification in sexuality education. She is also the past President of the Association of Family Life Educators of Quebec.

She is a regular expert voice in the National media on issues of sexuality, teens and health. She has made appearances on the television shows Sex Files on the Discovery Channel, Sexual Secrets on the Life Network and Let’s Talk Sex on MENTV.

Stephanie is the only certified sexuality educator in Montreal and gives hundreds of lectures a year to youth.

Stephanie has been nominated for 2 awards in her field; The Conference Board of Canada’s 2006 Global Best Award for initiatives in health and education, and the Association for Planned Parenthood Leaders in Education Mary Lee Tatum Award for Ideal Sex Educator.