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Sexual Health Matters

Your donation helps provide important, reliable information on consent and how to stay safe and healthy

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Sexual Health Matters

Your donation goes to work in our community and around the world providing trusted and reliable support, education, and resources.

Support & Guidance

While we are not a healthcare facility, we direct clients to available community programs and services.

Education & Outreach

We teach folks about consent, healthy relationships, and safe sex. We're in classrooms across the county, in the community and online around the globe.

Health & Wellbeing

By informing and encouraging routine sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and safer practices, we help reduce the transmission of STIs.

The Power of a Recurring Gift

Regular, recurring contributions help provide stability and planning capacity. Our Monthly giving program aims to cover our monthly operating expenses

about thirty Free Condoms

A $10 monthly donation allows us to buy about 30 condoms which we can distribute free of charge throughout the county.

Two Free Pregnancy Tests

A $25 monthly donation roughly covers the cost of two pregnancy tests and the guidance and support that we provide along with them.

One Month of high-speed internet

A $75 monthly donation is like covering our internet bill allowing us to do online outreach, fundraising, and working with other organizations.

*donations support all of our work, recurring donation levels are meant to demonstrate the value of your contribution in practical terms.

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In the media

As a well-known sexual health educator, it’s routine for Rene Ross to field questions about sexually transmitted infections. But things have been a lot busier for the executive director of the Cumberland County Sexual Health Centre since the province officially declared a syphilis outbreak last week after the number of cases more than doubled in 2019 compared to 2017.
The Chronicle HeraldJanuary 30, 2020
The scenario is familiar to many teenagers in Nova Scotia — things get out of hand at a party and after too much alcohol someone starts recording on their phone. But instead of a dry or awkward discussion, the Sexual Health Centre for Cumberland County in Amherst, N.S., is reaching for puppets to talk about sharing intimate images without consent.
CBC Nova ScotiaJanuary 16, 2020
Before the pandemic, Ross fielded questions from youth via social media a few times each month. She now gets questions daily. She believes this is due to the fact most sexual education classes take place at the end of the school year.
Halifax ExaminerJune 11, 2020

Sexual Health Centre for Cumberland County acknowledges it is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral, unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Mi’kmaq People. We acknowledge them as the past, present, and future caretakers of this land. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) People first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.

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