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  • Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

    Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

    February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month (TDVAM). This is an issue that impacts everyone – not just teens – but their parents, teachers, friends and communities as well. Together, we can raise the nation’s awareness about teen dating violence and promote safe, healthy relationships.

  • Black History Month – Sex Ed Lectures

    Sex Ed Lecture Series will be offering FREE programming throughout February — created to uplift Black leadership, scholarship, creativity, and entrepreneurship in sexuality education and adjacent fields.
    Our February programming will include live lectures, pre-recorded webinars, and networking sessions that are open-access and designed to center Black voices and lived experience. Free if registered.

  • Early Bird Registration: NESEC

    The deadline for the early bird registration and to submit a workshop proposal for our New England Sex Ed Conference at Lasell University ends on Feb 13th. This conference is an amazing way to demonstrate solidarity and community in the midst of the political climate of today. We will have insightful sessions, engaging workshops, and many networking opportunities!

  • Unmasking Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Navigating Tactics & Promoting Comprehensive Care

    Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) are operating in communities across the country and presenting themselves as legitimate clinics, yet many of them are unlicensed, medically misleading, and driven by agendas rooted in shame and control. This training is designed for educators, counselors, healthcare providers, advocates, and anyone committed to reproductive justice. You’ll leave not only informed, but equipped to take action. (Cost: $75)

  • Joy is Not Extra: Black Women’s Sexual Pleasure as Radical Praxis

    This interactive workshop invites Black women and femmes to explore sexual pleasure as a practice of healing, agency, and liberation. Grounded in pleasure activism, participants will reflect on embodied knowledge, communication, boundaries, and intimacy, unlearning sexual shame while envisioning pleasure as a collective praxis rooted in Black histories and futures.

  • The National Sex Ed Conference

    The National Sex Ed Conference.

    Are you a sexuality educator, health educator, professor, school teacher, nurse, counselor, case manager, social worker, therapist, or someone who works in a related field? If so, this conference is for you!
    Hosted by The Center for Sex Education, this conference is the perfect opportunity to share your knowledge and engage with professionals in the field.

  • Advocates for Youth 3Rs Training for Educators

    For educators who are looking to enhance their sex educator skills. Educator trainings consist of three, 90-minute training sessions that cover creating a safe learning environment, answering sensitive questions, sexual orientation and gender identity, and more. (Cost: $175)

  • Black History Month Grand Finale

    This live closing session brings the month’s programming together through guided discussion and reflection. Participants will revisit themes from the prerecorded webinars, celebrate the Black-led businesses and organizations spotlighted throughout the month, and reflect on how to carry this work forward beyond February.

  • Menstrual Equity Advocacy Day

    People in schools, shelters, and jails should all have access to tampons and pads, right? This lobby day organized by Mass NOW is a chance to hear from the activists and elected officials who have championed bills for menstrual equity. You will also have the opportunity to meet with your legislators to urge them to pass laws that would increase access to menstrual products. Register by Feb 9, free

  • Endometriosis Awareness Month

    Endometriosis Awareness Month

    Endometriosis is a disease that affects hormones, immune system (the system that fights germs and cancer), and the digestive tract (the system involved in the breakdown and absorption of food). Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 people with uteruses. Find out more here

  • Peer to Peer Sexual Harm Zoom Workshop

    More than 70% of children who are sexually abused are abused by a peer. Informed adults can play a key role in prevention. Calling all early childhood educators, parents, social workers, teacher, foster-parents, grand-parents raising grand-children and ANYONE who works with or cares for children/youth. (Cost: $37.85)

  • Puberty Happens Curriculum Training

    Join colleagues from around the state to learn about the 2024 edition of Puberty Happens and the key components within a puberty education program. Participants will leave the training with new lessons and activities to implement in the classroom or to use one-on-one with young people (grades 4-6) navigating the many changes of puberty. (Cost: $40).

  • Educating for Equity | Pronouns Explained: The What, How, and Why of Inclusive Language

    This webinar provides a comprehensive introduction to the role of pronouns and chosen names in affirming transgender and nonbinary people. Attendees will engage in collaborative learning to demonstrate confidence in sharing and asking for pronouns, repair harm from misgendering and deadnaming, and disarm misinformation and misconceptions about gender diversity. (Cost: Sliding scale, $10-50).

  • Bringing the Adults in the Room on Board with Youth Sex Ed

    Join YES! for an interactive workshop on how to communicate with other adults in the room about values and expectations during youth sex ed. In this training, we will discuss difficult situations we have experienced and work together to brainstorm strategies for setting boundaries and communicating clearly about our goals and expectations for other adults. (Cost: $17.85)

  • Periods and Wet Dreams: Teaching Puberty in Elementary School

    This interactive full-day virtual training equips educators, school nurses, and youth-serving professionals with strategies to support pubescent youth through physical changes, emotional growth, and identity development. Using a social-emotional lens, participants will practice lessons on anatomy, menstruation, hygiene, empathy, and more. $195

  • Sexuality Education Cornerstone Seminar (SECS) | In-Person

    SECS is designed for educators, youth-serving professionals, and individuals interested in sexuality education who are seeking a basic foundation of knowledge in sexuality and sexual health information that they can share with their populations. This 3-day PPLM training will be in-person in Boston, MA. (Cost: $450)

  • Sexual Assault Awareness Month

    SAAM is about both awareness and prevention of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse. Looking at the history of the movement to end sexual violence: It’s impossible to prevent an issue no one knows about, and it’s difficult to make people aware of a problem without providing a solution. The two work in tandem.

  • Maine Sexuality Education Conference

    Comprehensive Sexuality Education Conference

    Maine’s Annual Comprehensive Sexuality Education Conference began as an opportunity to provide sexuality education updates to school nurses and health teachers. Decades later, it has grown into an eagerly anticipated annual event for educators, school nurses, school counselors, and a variety of other youth-serving professionals. Every year we are excited to come together to share new and innovative programming, develop skills and knowledge, and provide resources for delivering positive, inclusive sexual health education.

  • GLSEN Day of Silence

    Day of Silence is a nationally-recognized demonstration where LGBTQ+ students and allies all around the country protest the harmful effects of harassment and discrimination of LGBTQ+ people in schools. Students go through the school day without speaking, ending the day with Breaking the Silence rallies to bring attention to ways their schools and communities can become more inclusive.

  • What’s Abortion Got to Do with it? Connecting the Dots Between Sex Ed and Abortion

    This virtual training was developed in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, both in anticipation of increased questions from young people about abortion and in recognition of the need to include abortion in conversations about sexuality. Young people deserve accurate information and open, honest spaces to explore it. This training will equip educators with the skills to support youth in learning about abortion and understanding its role in sexual and reproductive healthcare. $195

  • Sex Ed For All Month

    Sex Ed For All Month

    A month focused on providing young people with the sexual health information and access to resources they need and deserve in order to make healthy decisions for themselves.

  • Sex Week Boston

    Sex Week Boston

    Sex Week Boston is a week-long series of events designed to educate, inspire, and empower individuals to embrace their sexuality in a safe, inclusive, and fun environment, while also fostering sex-positive community. Apply to have your event included! More information, event host and sponsor applications, and the event lineup will be released soon. Join the email list for updates.

  • Pansexual & Panromantic Visibility Day

    If you identify as panromantic or pansexual – enjoy the 24th of May. If you know someone who does, let them know you’re thinking of them. Validation and acceptance makes the human experience all that more wonderous. If you neither identify or know someone – but you’ve learned something new about the wonderful variety that human beings come in, share on social media, have a conversation, do some reading. The more connected we are, the happier we are.

  • International Menstrual Hygiene Day

    Today, millions of women and girls* around the world are stigmatised, excluded and discriminated against simply because they menstruate. In 2022, it’s no longer acceptable that a natural bodily function prevents women and girls from getting an education, earning an income and fully and equally participating in everyday life.

  • Pride Month

    Pride Month

    Pride events are held around the world during June as a way of recognizing the influence LGBTQ+ people have had around the world. June is when the Stonewall Riots took place in 1969.

  • AASECT Annual Conference | Aquí y Ahora (Here & Now)

    Held in San Juan, Puerto Rico this year. Honor resilience, celebrate culture, and embrace pleasure as a form of resistance and healing. Share strategies that reclaim erotic power, disrupt shame, honor diverse sexual and gender expressions, and foster self-knowing, liberation, and relational integrity. Join us in creating transformative dialogues that celebrate pleasure, authenticity, and humanity—Aquí y Ahora.

  • National Sex Educator Appreciation Day

    Sex educators are fun, passionate and highly qualified professionals, often with advanced degrees, who make the world a better, happier, safer place, and save lives. But it is a misunderstood profession. From abstinence only funding, to censorship, community backlash and harassment, an overarching cultural shame of sexuality that makes our students hard to reach, and a profound society-wide misconception about what sexuality educators even do and why it's important, sex educators are up against a lot when they go to work every day. On June 9, thank a sex educator for the important but often underpaid and unappreciated work they do.

  • Juneteenth

    Juneteenth

    Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. It is a time for reflection and rejoicing. It is a time for assessment, self-improvement and for planning the future. In cities across the country, people of all races, nationalities and religions are joining hands to truthfully acknowledge a period in our history that shaped and continues to influence our society today.

  • Anniversary of Stonewall Riots

    The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, began in the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York City. The Stonewall Riots served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

  • International Non-Binary People’s Day

    International Non-Binary People's Day is observed each year on 14 July and is aimed at raising awareness and organizing around the issues faced by non-binary people around the world. The day was first celebrated in 2012. The date was chosen for being precisely between International Men's Day and International Women's Day.

  • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Month

    Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Month

    Awareness helps the public understand that symptoms like irregular periods and pelvic pain are not something to be ignored and getting it checked is necessary. While there is no cure for PCOS, there are treatments that can help ease the stress and complications of specific symptoms. The more people that are informed of PCOS the better chances for early diagnosis.

  • World Sexual Health Day

    The World Association for Sexual Health has invited many audiences to celebrate World Sexual Health and join this initiative to promote sexual health, well-being and rights for all. This year’s theme is Consent

  • Banned Books Week

    Banned Books Week

    Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information.

  • BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

    BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

    Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an international health campaign that’s held every October. The month aims to promote screening and prevention of the disease, which affects 2.3 million women worldwide. Known best for its pink theme color, the month features a number of campaigns and programs — conducted by groups ranging from breast cancer advocacy organizations to local community organizations to major retailers.

  • MAHPERD School Health Education Conference

    MAHPERD School Health Education Conference

    This dynamic conference is solely devoted to health educators who seek excellence in health education appropriate practices and strategies. It is a wonderful opportunity to network and gather to discuss issues, concerns, ideas and successes with health educators from MA.
    See you in Sturbridge, MA! $135 MAHPERD members, includes lunch

  • Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

    Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

    February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month (TDVAM). This is an issue that impacts everyone – not just teens – but their parents, teachers, friends and communities as well. Together, we can raise the nation’s awareness about teen dating violence and promote safe, healthy relationships.

  • International Sex Education Day!

    Sex Education Alliance

    Talking to kids about sex and relationships can change their futures — and the world. Sex education, at home, in school, and even at the doctor’s office can improve self-esteem and self-image, reduce at-risk sexual behavior, reduce teenage pregnancy, and improve grades, test scores, and educational outcomes.

  • The National Sex Ed Conference

    The National Sex Ed Conference.

    Are you a sexuality educator, health educator, professor, school teacher, nurse, counselor, case manager, social worker, therapist, or someone who works in a related field? If so, this conference is for you!
    Hosted by The Center for Sex Education, this conference is the perfect opportunity to share your knowledge and engage with professionals in the field.

  • Endometriosis Awareness Month

    Endometriosis Awareness Month

    Endometriosis is a disease that affects hormones, immune system (the system that fights germs and cancer), and the digestive tract (the system involved in the breakdown and absorption of food). Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 people with uteruses. Find out more here

  • Sexual Assault Awareness Month

    Sexual Assault Awareness Month

    SAAM is about both awareness and prevention of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse. Looking at the history of the movement to end sexual violence: It’s impossible to prevent an issue no one knows about, and it’s difficult to make people aware of a problem without providing a solution. The two work in tandem.

  • STI Awareness Week

    STI Awareness Week, observed the second full week in April, provides an opportunity to raise awareness about sexually transmitted infections (STIs). STI Awareness Week focuses on how STIs impact our lives, reducing STI-related stigma, fear, and discrimination and ensure people have the tools and knowledge for prevention, testing, and treatment.

  • Maine Sexuality Education Conference

    Comprehensive Sexuality Education Conference

    Maine’s Annual Comprehensive Sexuality Education Conference began as an opportunity to provide sexuality education updates to school nurses and health teachers. Decades later, it has grown into an eagerly anticipated annual event for educators, school nurses, school counselors, and a variety of other youth-serving professionals. Every year we are excited to come together to share new and innovative programming, develop skills and knowledge, and provide resources for delivering positive, inclusive sexual health education.

  • Sex Ed For All Month

    Sex Ed For All Month

    A month focused on providing young people with the sexual health information and access to resources they need and deserve in order to make healthy decisions for themselves.

  • Sex Week Boston

    Sex Week Boston

    Sex Week Boston is a week-long series of events designed to educate, inspire, and empower individuals to embrace their sexuality in a safe, inclusive, and fun environment, while also fostering sex-positive community. Apply to have your event included! More information, event host and sponsor applications, and the event lineup will be released soon. Join the email list for updates.

  • Pansexual & Panromantic Visibility Day

    If you identify as panromantic or pansexual – enjoy the 24th of May. If you know someone who does, let them know you’re thinking of them. Validation and acceptance makes the human experience all that more wonderous. If you neither identify or know someone – but you’ve learned something new about the wonderful variety that human beings come in, share on social media, have a conversation, do some reading. The more connected we are, the happier we are.

  • International Menstrual Hygiene Day

    Today, millions of women and girls* around the world are stigmatised, excluded and discriminated against simply because they menstruate. In 2022, it’s no longer acceptable that a natural bodily function prevents women and girls from getting an education, earning an income and fully and equally participating in everyday life.

  • Pride Month

    Pride Month

    Pride events are held around the world during June as a way of recognizing the influence LGBTQ+ people have had around the world. June is when the Stonewall Riots took place in 1969.

  • National Sex Educator Appreciation Day

    Sex educators are fun, passionate and highly qualified professionals, often with advanced degrees, who make the world a better, happier, safer place, and save lives. But it is a misunderstood profession. From abstinence only funding, to censorship, community backlash and harassment, an overarching cultural shame of sexuality that makes our students hard to reach, and a profound society-wide misconception about what sexuality educators even do and why it's important, sex educators are up against a lot when they go to work every day. On June 9, thank a sex educator for the important but often underpaid and unappreciated work they do.

  • Juneteenth

    Juneteenth

    Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. It is a time for reflection and rejoicing. It is a time for assessment, self-improvement and for planning the future. In cities across the country, people of all races, nationalities and religions are joining hands to truthfully acknowledge a period in our history that shaped and continues to influence our society today.

  • Anniversary of Stonewall Riots

    The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, began in the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York City. The Stonewall Riots served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

  • International Non-Binary People’s Day

    International Non-Binary People's Day is observed each year on 14 July and is aimed at raising awareness and organizing around the issues faced by non-binary people around the world. The day was first celebrated in 2012. The date was chosen for being precisely between International Men's Day and International Women's Day.

  • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Month

    Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Month

    Awareness helps the public understand that symptoms like irregular periods and pelvic pain are not something to be ignored and getting it checked is necessary. While there is no cure for PCOS, there are treatments that can help ease the stress and complications of specific symptoms. The more people that are informed of PCOS the better chances for early diagnosis.

  • World Sexual Health Day

    World Sexual Health Day

    The World Association for Sexual Health has invited many audiences to celebrate World Sexual Health and join this initiative to promote sexual health, well-being and rights for all. This year’s theme is Consent

  • Banned Books Week

    Banned Books Week

    Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information.

  • BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

    BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

    Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an international health campaign that’s held every October. The month aims to promote screening and prevention of the disease, which affects 2.3 million women worldwide. Known best for its pink theme color, the month features a number of campaigns and programs — conducted by groups ranging from breast cancer advocacy organizations to local community organizations to major retailers.

  • MAHPERD School Health Education Conference

    MAHPERD School Health Education Conference

    This dynamic conference is solely devoted to health educators who seek excellence in health education appropriate practices and strategies. It is a wonderful opportunity to network and gather to discuss issues, concerns, ideas and successes with health educators from MA.
    See you in Sturbridge, MA! $135 MAHPERD members, includes lunch

  • Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

    Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

    February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month (TDVAM). This is an issue that impacts everyone – not just teens – but their parents, teachers, friends and communities as well. Together, we can raise the nation’s awareness about teen dating violence and promote safe, healthy relationships.

  • International Sex Education Day!

    Sex Education Alliance

    Talking to kids about sex and relationships can change their futures — and the world. Sex education, at home, in school, and even at the doctor’s office can improve self-esteem and self-image, reduce at-risk sexual behavior, reduce teenage pregnancy, and improve grades, test scores, and educational outcomes.

  • The National Sex Ed Conference

    The National Sex Ed Conference.

    Are you a sexuality educator, health educator, professor, school teacher, nurse, counselor, case manager, social worker, therapist, or someone who works in a related field? If so, this conference is for you!
    Hosted by The Center for Sex Education, this conference is the perfect opportunity to share your knowledge and engage with professionals in the field.

  • Endometriosis Awareness Month

    Endometriosis Awareness Month

    Endometriosis is a disease that affects hormones, immune system (the system that fights germs and cancer), and the digestive tract (the system involved in the breakdown and absorption of food). Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 people with uteruses. Find out more here

  • Sexual Assault Awareness Month

    Sexual Assault Awareness Month

    SAAM is about both awareness and prevention of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse. Looking at the history of the movement to end sexual violence: It’s impossible to prevent an issue no one knows about, and it’s difficult to make people aware of a problem without providing a solution. The two work in tandem.

  • Maine Sexuality Education Conference

    Comprehensive Sexuality Education Conference

    Maine’s Annual Comprehensive Sexuality Education Conference began as an opportunity to provide sexuality education updates to school nurses and health teachers. Decades later, it has grown into an eagerly anticipated annual event for educators, school nurses, school counselors, and a variety of other youth-serving professionals. Every year we are excited to come together to share new and innovative programming, develop skills and knowledge, and provide resources for delivering positive, inclusive sexual health education.

  • Sex Ed For All Month

    Sex Ed For All Month

    A month focused on providing young people with the sexual health information and access to resources they need and deserve in order to make healthy decisions for themselves.