Healthy Relationship Curriculum for Students

The Ontario Ministry of Education’s Health and Physical Education curriculums for Grade 7-8 and Grades 9-12 require that each year, students are taught about healthy relationships. Within this education, students are to learn that “healthy relationships are based on respect, caring, empathy, trust, and dignity” and that “healthy relationships do not tolerate abusive, controlling, violent, bullying/harassing, or other inappropriate behaviours.”^[1]

Our THRIVE Ottawa Community Education program addresses the required topics through our grade 7-12 presentations in a way that is empowering. Throughout our presentations, we speak about the value and worth of each student so they not only learn about what healthy relationships look like, but they also understand that they are worthy of living in healthy relationships.

Contact us at info@thriveottawa.ca to find out more or to book a free THRIVE Community Education program presentation today.

Healthy Relationships Education 

Relationships are everywhere. Relationships are not just romantic in nature. We all have multiple relationships which include: our parents, siblings, partner, peers, friends, co-workers, teachers and coaches. With relationships affecting every area of our lives, it is important to teach students and young people the importance of healthy relationships. The teaching focuses on learning about one’s own value, boundary setting, consent and what makes a relationship healthy. Our THRIVE Ottawa program seeks to teach just that, through our free discussion-based and interactive presentations.

Healthy Relationships for Teenagers

A maturing student is trying to figure out who they are; how they are separate from their parents/caregivers and who they are in the context of all their relationships.  Their primary relationships are with their peers and friends and also with their family, teachers, coaches and anyone else they spend significant time with.  In middle school and high school, young people may begin to explore romantic relationships more than previously. During this influential and formative time in their life, it is important for students to know what healthy relationships look like and to understand the role that they have in forming healthy relationships around them.

Our THRIVE Ottawa presentations dive into all areas of healthy relationships, including warning signs of an abusive relationship, online relationships risks, sexting, sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI’s), and communication strategies.

Learning Healthy Boundaries in Relationships 

Boundaries and consent are key to all healthy relationships. However, these important relationship skills are not intrinsic in nature and need to be learned. Our THRIVE presentations begin the conversation of boundary setting in our Grade 7 presentations and continue this important conversation all the way through to our Grade 12 presentations.

Learning how to set healthy boundaries within relationships and what it means to give consent is usually a highlight for students within our THRIVE Ottawa presentations. The positive feedback many students give after a presentation relates to having a greater understanding and appreciation for the power and ability they have to create and recognize a healthy relationship. The new understanding they have about the signs and expectations that exist in an unhealthy relationship is also seen to be of great value to them.

Contact Us Today to Get Started with THRIVE

THRIVE Ottawa Community Education is about encouraging healthy relationships. Our Healthy Relationship presentations seek to present students with information on love, sex and relationships. We do this through fun, interactive and discussion-based presentations, which are geared to the specific age of each class. For more information on our free program, please email info@thriveottawa.ca.