SEXploration 2024 will start on April 1st!
Welcome to SEXploration 2024! The Health and Belonging Cohort is excited to be back for another year of programming. Through partnerships with the GSC, Title IX, the Career Center, and more, this April will hold opportunities to learn and engage with topics on sexual health and wellbeing. SEXploration was borne out of a Carleton community need for information that may have been missed during sex education in the American K12 school curricula. In SEXploration, we connect you to on- and off-campus resources to support sexual health and well-being in our community. We invite you to explore more resources below, and we hope to see you in person for some of these amazing events!
Participating Campus Offices:
- Career Center
- Center for Community and Civic Engagement – Health and Belonging Cohort
- Gender and Sexuality Center
- Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies – Academic Department
- Title IX Office/ Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response (SMPR)
- Office of Health Promotion
- Student Health and Counseling
Off-Campus Partnerships:
- Smitten Kitten
- Carleton Alums
- HOPE Center
Educational Resources 2024
SHAC STI Testing and Vaccinations
There is express STI testing EVERY TUESDAY from 10am-4pm @ SHAC
Visit your MySHAC Portal portal to register for testing
How it works:
Register on your MySHAC Portal for a time that works with your schedule. Appointments are required.
Express visits allow students to choose which screening tests they want performed, and give students the responsibility of checking into insurance coverage before the visit so that at the appointment, all the student needs to do is get the necessary supplies from the provider and collect samples. There may also be a blood draw done. This shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes of a student’s time if the forms and insurance verification are done before the visit.
Longer STI visits are still available for students who are symptomatic, have had a known exposure, have questions about STI screening, or would like to discuss Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV.
There are also vaccinations through SHAC! Visit this link for more information!
Additional testing resources:
The following are additional STI testing resources in our community that are also available. Keep in mind that SHAC is often the easiest resource for getting tested while on campus. SHAC is also available throughout the academic year for STItesting.
- Red Door Clinic
- Queer and Trans friendly
- Free HIV testing during pride (but don’t wait to get tested)
- Family Tree Clinic
- Queer and Trans friendly
- Planned Parenthood
- More expensive but many know it to be a more pleasant patient experience
- HealthFinders
- In walking distance of campus
- Provides free medical resources for low-income individuals in Rice County
- Women’s Health Center – Northfield Hospital
- In Northfield
Educational Resources 2023
General STI Info
HPV Info
HIV Info
Sexual Violence Resources*
- The Body Keeps the Score is a great book if you are interested in the mind-body connection involved in trauma processing. Health issues can be due to past trauma resurfacing body pain because triggers can remind the body of the pain during past violence.
- This article defines the “comfort in, dump out” model, which outlines the concept of not complaining about the effects of someone’s trauma to the person affected, only to people who are less close to the trauma.
- Here are links to Heather Plett’s blog, which are related to holding space, and here is an example of it.
- Learn more about burnout in this podcast, Burnout and How to Complete the Stress Cycle.
- Making lasting friends can be difficult because it is something that we are never taught to do, so here is a podcast about it. The other podcasts in the same series are also interesting: We Can Do Hard Things.
- Talking about and learning more about sexual violence can be difficult, so to retain optimism, read about the 3 P’s of optimism, which are personalization, pervasiveness, and permanence. Sometimes staying optimistic can be difficult, so keeping a happy photo album on your phone or a file of nice things people said about you nearby are two ways to stay positive.
* These resources were provided by Erica Staab-Absher, the director of HOPE Center.
Register for Events!
- To be announced!