PATTHS for Dads (Parents Are Teaching and Talking about Healthy Sexuality) empowers fathers and male mentors to become competent, confident educators of their children around issues of sexuality and personal responsibility.  The resources and online training below are free to any fatherhood practitioner, educator, home visitor or health care provider interested in engaging fathers in healthy sexuality education.  Please email us at info@opnff.net and let us know how you plan to use the curriculum.

Part I - recorded training webinar

Reference Websites

• Birth Control Methods - https://bedsider.org/methods
• Access to Birth Control - https://bedsider.org/where_to_get_it
• Talking About Sex - https://bedsider.org/guys_guide and https://bedsider.org/features

Articles

• Paternal Influences on Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors - PEDIATRICS
• Talking to Your Young Child About Sex - American Association of Pediatrics recommendations

Children's books for fathers to read to their children by Robie Harris

• Who Has What? All About Girls's Bodies and Boys' Bodies
• What's In There? All About Before You Were Born
• It's NOT the Stork A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families, and Friends (ages 4-8)
• It's So Amazing A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth (ages 7-10)
• It's Perfectly Normal Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health (ages 10 & up)

Part II - recorded training webinar

PATTHS for Dads Curriculum Activities, Materials and Handouts

• Activities and Facilitator Guidance
• The Journey and Sexuality Interview for Dads
• Sexual Development from 0 to 18 Years Old
• Wheel of Human Sexuality
• Parent's Priorities Exercise
• Birth Control Methods and Family Planning