
	NEWS NOW RECRUITING FOR FALL 2008! Be a Leader and an Advocate for Responsible Sexuality! SHAPE (Sexual Health Advocate Peer Education) is a peer education group dedicated to providing the University of Missouri student community with well-trained peer educators who conduct sexual health educational programs in a variety of formats. Get connected with other peers who advocate for smarter, healthy sexuality. Learn crucial leadership skills such as program development, critical thinking, presentation skills, meeting management, interpersonal communication, and other skills transferable into your professional career. Apply now! SHAPE Peer Educator, tapped into LSV! Dan Imhoff, one of our senior SHAPE peer educators, was recently tapped into LSV, a secret society dedicated to promoting and improving the status of women. He was honored as only the fourth male in the 100-year old history to receive this award. Congratulations Dan, we are proud of you! For more information click here: LSV honor SHAPE wins Chancellor's Excellence Awards for Leadership, Multicultural and Involvement."2007-2008 Most Outstanding Small Organization" Quoted from the awards banquet: "They have worked diligently with other supporters on the Condom Initiative. This group strives to improve the sexual health knowledge of students, staff, and faculty so that they can have the information they need to make choices that have a large impact on their lives and on the lives of those around them. They promote safer choices and they make sure every student on campus have the resources they need when the time comes to make those choices. Their small size hasn’t stopped them from making sure that they are giving the students of Mizzou all the resources and information they need. They are here solely for the well-being of Mizzou Students. Please join us in congratulating the 2007-2008 Most Outstanding Small Organization, the Sexual Health Advocate Peer Education … commonly known as SHAPE." SHAPE representatives Renata Slayton & Ali Balzer are congratulated by Vice-Chancellor Dr. Cathy Scroggs MIZZOU '39 OUTSTANDING SENIOR AWARD Please join SHAPE in recognizing Dan Imhoff, one of the 2008 MIZZOU '39 most outstanding senior recipients. Dan was recently honored as 1 of 39 University of Missouri's most outstanding seniors for his leadership, scholarship, and service to the university and community. Dan will be graduating this May with a B.S. in nursing. Dan actively participates in many university organizations including SHAPE and MARS, and is a member of both the Mortar Board & LSV service groups. Congratulations Dan! Dan Imhoff, SHAPE peer educator with SHAPE coordinator Dr. Heather Eastman-Mueller What is SHAPE? SHAPE is a peer education program that encourages students to learn about the many aspects of sexual health and promotes respect, responsibility and integrity in relationship to self and others. SHAPE promotes safer choices to reduce health risks associated with sexuality, such as using condoms, birth control, abstinence, and avoiding being under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Who are SHAPE Peer Educators? SHAPE peers are undergraduate students who receive extensive training in sexual health topics and presentation skills. What does SHAPE do? *Programming:* Peer educators present on issues such as STDs/HIV prevention, healthy relationships and birth control options. They also collaborate with other peer groups to provide educational activities on campus. *Resources:* SHAPE provides pamphlets, articles, web sites, and other information to promote healthy living. You may come to the Student Health Center at any time to obtain resources, talk to someone, or use any of our informational CD-Rom programs, such as Sex in the CD and Alcohol 101. *Referrals:* SHAPE refers students to campus services for medical, psychological and health promotion needs. How do I request a SHAPE program, and what should I expect? If you’re interested in requesting a SHAPE program, it’s easy! Here’s what you do: 1. Call 882-1417 (the SHAPE office) or stop by the Health Promotion office located in the Student Health Center to request your program 2. PLEASE REQUEST YOUR PROGRAM AT LEAST TWO WEEKS IN ADVANCE. We get a lot of requests, so it helps us to plan a better program for you if we know about it early! 3. Talk with the SHAPE coordinator about what kind of program you’d like. It helps if you have some ideas before you call. The more specific you can be about the kind of program you’d like, the better able we are to plan for it. Here’s a list of common programs and emphasis areas we do to get you started: Healthy relationships, contraceptive options, sexually transmitted infections, values clarification, general sexual health Issues related to diversity, the media, and abstinence. Note. We can also create customized programs to meet your organization's individual needs If you’ve requested a program for your organization or classroom, here’s what you can expect: A phone call a few days before the program date to confirm the request and to finalize any necessary details Two peer educators with extensive training in sexual health issues and presentation skills to present your program A timely program finished within your requested parameters Time for questions, answers, and discussion Educational materials, information, and resources to enhance your programming needs Packages of safety products which include educational material, and information about campus sexual health resources We’re happy to present your program, but expect the individual(s) who requested to program to advertise to their student group A good time and a lot of good sexual health information! TALK, RESPECT, PROTECT, ENJOY SHAPE advocates for smarter, healthy sexuality, which includes: TALK, RESPECT, PROTECT, ENJOY. TALK means discussing values, feelings, sexual histories, and relationship needs. Part of being a sexually healthy individual means learning how to communicate what’s important to you. While talking about sex and sexual health issues isn’t always easy, the more you do it, the easier it will become for you and also for those who you’re talking with! RESPECT is engaging in sexual relationships that are consensual and non-exploitative. Respect is being able to discriminate between life enhancing sexual behaviors and those that are harmful to self and/or others. Respect affirms your own sexual orientation and respects the sexual orientation of others. PROTECT yourself and others against disease, unintended pregnancy, and other potentially negative physical and emotional effects of sexual intimacy. Protect your health through learning about sexual health, getting regular physical exams and engaging in health promoting behaviors such as breast exams, testicular self-exams and vaccine preventable disease. ENJOY the lifestyle you choose according to your values. Whether you choose abstinence or a sexual relationship with someone you care about, enjoy an honest, pleasurable relationship throughout life. Click HERE for links to campus, community and web resources to help students talk, respect, protect and enjoy. Click HERE to learn more about smarter, healthier sex.

NEWS

NOW RECRUITING FOR FALL 2008!

Be a Leader and an Advocate for Responsible Sexuality!

SHAPE (Sexual Health Advocate Peer Education) is a peer education group dedicated to providing the University of Missouri student community with well-trained peer educators who conduct sexual health educational programs in a variety of formats. Get connected with other peers who advocate for smarter, healthy sexuality. Learn crucial leadership skills such as program development, critical thinking, presentation skills, meeting management, interpersonal communication, and other skills transferable into your professional career.

Apply now!

SHAPE Peer Educator, tapped into LSV!

Dan Imhoff, one of our senior SHAPE peer educators, was recently tapped into LSV, a secret society dedicated to promoting and improving the status of women. He was honored as only the fourth male in the 100-year old history to receive this award. Congratulations Dan, we are proud of you! For more information click here: LSV honor

SHAPE wins Chancellor's Excellence Awards for Leadership, Multicultural and Involvement."2007-2008 Most Outstanding Small Organization"

Quoted from the awards banquet:

"They have worked diligently with other supporters on the Condom Initiative. This group strives to improve the sexual health knowledge of students, staff, and faculty so that they can have the information they need to make choices that have a large impact on their lives and on the lives of those around them. They promote safer choices and they make sure every student on campus have the resources they need when the time comes to make those choices. Their small size hasn’t stopped them from making sure that they are giving the students of Mizzou all the resources and information they need. They are here solely for the well-being of Mizzou Students.

Please join us in congratulating the 2007-2008 Most Outstanding Small Organization, the Sexual Health Advocate Peer Education … commonly known as SHAPE."

SHAPE representatives Renata Slayton & Ali Balzer are
congratulated by Vice-Chancellor Dr. Cathy Scroggs

MIZZOU '39 OUTSTANDING SENIOR AWARD

Please join SHAPE in recognizing Dan Imhoff, one of the 2008 MIZZOU '39 most outstanding senior recipients. Dan was recently honored as 1 of 39 University of Missouri's most outstanding seniors for his leadership, scholarship, and service to the university and community. Dan will be graduating this May with a B.S. in nursing. Dan actively participates in many university organizations including SHAPE and MARS, and is a member of both the Mortar Board & LSV service groups. Congratulations Dan!

Dan Imhoff, SHAPE peer educator with SHAPE coordinator
Dr. Heather Eastman-Mueller

What is SHAPE?

SHAPE is a peer education program that encourages students to learn about the many aspects of sexual health and promotes respect, responsibility and integrity in relationship to self and others.

SHAPE promotes safer choices to reduce health risks associated with sexuality, such as using condoms, birth control, abstinence, and avoiding being under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Who are SHAPE Peer Educators?

SHAPE peers are undergraduate students who receive extensive training in sexual health topics and presentation skills.

What does SHAPE do?

Programming: Peer educators present on issues such as STDs/HIV prevention, healthy relationships and birth control options. They also collaborate with other peer groups to provide educational activities on campus.
Resources: SHAPE provides pamphlets, articles, web sites, and other information to promote healthy living. You may come to the Student Health Center at any time to obtain resources, talk to someone, or use any of our informational CD-Rom programs, such as Sex in the CD and Alcohol 101.
Referrals: SHAPE refers students to campus services for medical, psychological and health promotion needs.

How do I request a SHAPE program, and what should I expect?

If you’re interested in requesting a SHAPE program, it’s easy! Here’s what you do:

1. Call 882-1417 (the SHAPE office) or stop by the Health Promotion office located in the Student Health Center to request your program

2. PLEASE REQUEST YOUR PROGRAM AT LEAST TWO WEEKS IN ADVANCE. We get a lot of requests, so it helps us to plan a better program for you if we know about it early!

3. Talk with the SHAPE coordinator about what kind of program you’d like. It helps if you have some ideas before you call. The more specific you can be about the kind of program you’d like, the better able we are to plan for it. Here’s a list of common programs and emphasis areas we do to get you started:

Healthy relationships, contraceptive options, sexually transmitted infections, values clarification, general sexual health Issues related to diversity, the media, and abstinence.

Note. We can also create customized programs to meet your organization's individual needs

If you’ve requested a program for your organization or classroom, here’s what you can expect:

A phone call a few days before the program date to confirm the request and to finalize any necessary details
Two peer educators with extensive training in sexual health issues and presentation skills to present your program
A timely program finished within your requested parameters
Time for questions, answers, and discussion
Educational materials, information, and resources to enhance your programming needs
Packages of safety products which include educational material, and information about campus sexual health resources
We’re happy to present your program, but expect the individual(s) who requested to program to advertise to their student group
A good time and a lot of good sexual health information!

TALK, RESPECT, PROTECT, ENJOY

SHAPE advocates for smarter, healthy sexuality, which includes: TALK, RESPECT, PROTECT, ENJOY.

TALK means discussing values, feelings, sexual histories, and relationship needs. Part of being a sexually healthy individual means learning how to communicate what’s important to you. While talking about sex and sexual health issues isn’t always easy, the more you do it, the easier it will become for you and also for those who you’re talking with!

RESPECT is engaging in sexual relationships that are consensual and non-exploitative. Respect is being able to discriminate between life enhancing sexual behaviors and those that are harmful to self and/or others. Respect affirms your own sexual orientation and respects the sexual orientation of others.

PROTECT yourself and others against disease, unintended pregnancy, and other potentially negative physical and emotional effects of sexual intimacy. Protect your health through learning about sexual health, getting regular physical exams and engaging in health promoting behaviors such as breast exams, testicular self-exams and vaccine preventable disease.

ENJOY the lifestyle you choose according to your values. Whether you choose abstinence or a sexual relationship with someone you care about, enjoy an honest, pleasurable relationship throughout life.

Click HERE for links to campus, community and web resources to help students talk, respect, protect and enjoy.

Click HERE to learn more about smarter, healthier sex.