Educational Outreach, Resources & Opportunities
Sexual Health, Advocacy & Relationship Education (SHARE) aids students in exploring their relationship with their own sexuality and sexual health by providing safer sexual health resources and opportunities for education.
SHARE provides outreach to the campus community through trainings and tabling events. Training topics include supporting survivors, intervention, the neurobiology of trauma, and sex positivity.
Complete SHARE's Outreach Request Form
What is Sexual Health?
Sexual Health is defined by the World Health Organization as “. . . a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity. Sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. For sexual health to be attained and maintained, the sexual rights of all persons must be respected, protected and fulfilled.”
Sexual health and well-being is every person's right, and includes the opportunity to experience safe and pleasurable sexual experiences that are free of coercive, violent, and discriminatory actions; a respect for the diverse expressions of sexuality that are present; and access to sources of pleasure-forward, inclusive, medically accurate, and comprehensive sexuality education and resources.
On-Campus Sexual Health Resources
SHARE Packages: Free Safer Sex Supplies
Place an Order
SHARE Package is a free, confidential, online safer sex supply ordering service. Delivered to your on-campus mailbox or sent (discreetly!) to U.S. addresses via USPS within two weeks.
Packages:
- Condoms (latex, non-latex, or insertive)
- Lubricant (water or silicone-based)
- Oral dams (latex) & nitrile gloves
- Special requests
As an affirmation of our rights to pleasure, prevention, and protection, this program intends to support one’s relationship to healthy sexuality, including decreased risk of pregnancy and STI transmission through materials and information. Our order form contains links to resources to learn more about each item, and what is right for you. Explore away!
Where else can I get safer sex supplies on campus?
- Outside the door of the SHARE Office, located in Gray Campus Center, Room 103.
- Night Owls carry safer sex supplies in their flight bags. Find them from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights!
- The Health & Counseling Center has safer sex supplies in the office.
- Generic emergency contraception ("Plan B") is available at a discounted rate at the HCC (Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and at the bookstore (Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m., and Saturday & Sunday from noon to 2 a.m.).
- The Reed Community Pantry stocks safer sex supplies and menstrual products. View their open hours on their web page.
Reed's Health & Counseling Center (HCC)
Visits to Reed's HCC are free. Some tests, prescriptions, and labs do require a fee. Contact your insurance for questions about coverage. If cost is a barrier for you, please discuss it with your provider. Our case manager can assist you with exploring your options.
Services:
- Contraceptive options, education, and referral.
- Birth control (hormonal and barrier methods)
- Emergency contraception ("Plan B" and Ella [by prescription])
- Reproductive health care (ex. Pap Smears [age 21+], symptom care).
- Confidential counseling, testing, and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.
- Preventative counseling and education.
- Preventative medicine: PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis; HIV) & Doxy-PEP (bacterial STI prevention)
- Hep B, Hep A, and HPV vaccinations.
- Pregnancy testing.
- Gender-affirming medical care, such as hormone therapy, counseling services, and referral for continuation of care (i.e. surgeries, voice training, electrolysis).
Location
The HCC is on Steele next to 28 West (Community Safety). You can make an appointment through the student health portal, or call 503-777-7281. For more information, visit the HCC webpage.
Talk to your HCC provider about your options for gender-affirming hormones and abortion care.
Off-Campus Sexual Health Services
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood health centers offer a wide variety of sexual and reproductive health care services. Services include contraceptive care, pregnancy testing and prenatal care, abortion, STI testing and treatment, preventative medicine, and more.
Prism Health
Prism Health provides comprehensive, compassionate and culturally affirming healthcare for everyone with the aim of addressing long-standing health disparities in the LGBTQ+ community and promoting equitable access to healthcare.
Part of the Cascade AIDs Project network.
NUMN (National University of Natural Medicine) Trans Health Clinic
NUMN (National University of Natural Medicine) Trans Health Clinic offers safe and affordable health care to people who identify and/or have had a lived experience as transgender, genderqueer, and/or gender fluid.
OHSU Transgender Health Program
OHSU's
Transgender Health Program (THP) provides support, information, and advocacy, The can facilitate connections to OHSU providers caring for gender-diverse patients of all ages.
Oregon Health Authority (OHA)
OHA maintains an overview of Reproductive and Sexual Health clinics, resources, and information in Oregon.
Q Center Resource List
The Q Center’s Online Information & Referral Service, containing resources for LGBTQ+ folxs and other intersecting identities. Search by type, or explore the Portland area.