Calendar of Events

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All events noted in Eastern Time

Free Open House – Certificate Programs in Sexuality Education and Disability

This free session will provide an overview and walk through of the upcoming Certificate Program in Sexuality Education and Disability: Understanding Neurodiversity, Intellectual Disabilities, and Sexual Health. The 24-credit course will be Tues/Thurs evenings in May and includes 12 hours live lecture and 12 hours pre-recorded lectures.

Know Means Know: Have Breakthrough Conversations with Compassionate Curiosity

Whether you're looking for better ways to break through with elected officials, want to do more effective phone banking or door knocking in your community, or just stop going around in circles with friends and family, this training is for you. Bonus: you'll be among the first to hear what we've learned from two years of having just this kind of conversation with strangers around the country, focusing on gender-inclusive sex education!

Examining Sexually Explicit Media: Tools for Conversations with Youth

Using the lens of media literacy education, this interactive, one-day training will provide educators, youth workers, and professionals with an opportunity to explore how pornography can play a role in young people's sexual development and sexuality, their awareness of gender and gender stereotypes, consent, sexual behavior, bodies and body image, healthy and unhealthy relationships, and sexual identity. Cost: $195

May Lunch-N-Learn: Preventing Sexual Violence—Understanding the Bystander Effect

This session delves into the bystander effect and how to empower individuals to intervene effectively in preventing sexual violence. The training provides strategies for fostering a culture of accountability, recognizing opportunities to act, and creating supportive environments where bystanders feel confident to speak up and act against sexual violence. Free

Certificate Program in Sexuality Education and Disability: Understanding Neurodiversity, Intellectual Disabilities, and Sexual Health

This course explores sexuality, identities, sexual arousal, response, pleasure, and relationships for individuals with neurodiversities and intellectual disabilities. It examines attitudes and beliefs about sexuality and people with disabilities and focuses on the benefits of sexuality education and the increased need for accessible knowledge in these populations. Instructor: Stephanie Mitelman, MA, CSE, CFLE, $1495

The ASKQ: A new measure of youth sexual health knowledge!

The Acquired Sexual Knowledge Questionnaire (ASKQ) was designed to be a practical and useful measure of sexual health knowledge for youth (Grades 7-12) participating in sexuality education courses in schools. This presentation will discuss the construction, development, and evaluation of the ASKQ on a sample of 244 middle and high school students. Price: $30

Consent Conundrums: Substances, Sexting, and STIs

"Just say no" has long been a repackaged cornerstone of prevention education broadly but often fails to produce the desired outcomes. While personal responsibility is part of consent, it's not always a powerful influence on behavior, especially when the behavior is meeting other needs.

Sexuality for All Abilities Training

Whether you are new to teaching sex ed to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, new to the Sexuality for All Abilities curriculum, or you want to refresh your knowledge, join us !

Training for Educators

This training is appropriate for educators who are looking to enhance their sexual educator skills. The training will take place over the course of three days with a 90 minute session each day and will cover the following topics: Creating a safe learning environment, Answering Sensitive Questions, Boundaries & Self-Disclosure, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Experiential, and Learning Cycle. Price: $175

Talking About Sex Trafficking

A 7-Part Sexual Health Education Series for Teens and Adults
In this workshop, you will learn about: The definition of sex trafficking, Who is trafficking who, Luring tactics used, Recruitment, Barriers to exiting, and Resources. Cost: $44

Talking about Consent in Neurodiverse Classrooms: Challenges and Needs Identified by Young Adults

Sexual consent is a crucial topic for students of all neurotypes – however, autistic students report receiving less consent education and have higher rates of sexual trauma. This lecture describes research on autistic and non-autistic young adults’ difficulties with navigating consent and provides strategies to support consent education in neurodiverse classrooms. Price: $30

The Wonder Years: Teacher’s Summit

In This program you will get: Access to over 15 hours of expert-led, on-demand sessions tailored to empower teachers with strategies for real-world classroom challenges, the privilege to participate from the comfort of your home or classroom, with flexible, on-demand access to all sessions for 90 days, the ability to earn a Certificate of Completion that counts toward your professional development requirements. Your school may even cover the cost of your ticket! cost: $25-120

Queering Consent: Conversations for Connection

Focusing on consent beyond traditional frameworks, this workshop explores how to talk about queering consent with young people. Participants will learn how to navigate conversations that honor diverse identities and experiences, encouraging open dialogue about boundaries, autonomy, and respect.

Awkward to Awesome: Core Skills

This one-day, in-person training, held in the EyesOpenIowa Training Hall in West Des Moines, Iowa, covers essential topics such as responding to sensitive questions, values clarification, boundaries and self-disclosure, and more! Required for Certified Sexual Health Educator (CSHE) certification, this dynamic session is led by experienced trainers and offers practical skills along with networking opportunities. Cost: $200

Sex Ed Staples: Core Content

This covers essential topics like puberty, reproductive anatomy, methods of protection, and STD/STI prevention, along with best practices for teaching them. With follow-up asynchronous content, participants gain the core knowledge needed to effectively facilitate sexual health education. This training is also required for Certified Sexual Health Educator (CSHE) certification, making it ideal for both newcomers and experienced educators. Cost: $200

Screenwise: Guiding Teen Decision Making Through the Digital Age

This training is designed for anyone helping young people navigate the online landscape. It covers strategies for supporting teens in managing online safety, sexting, and exposure to explicit content. With interactive activities and discussion, participants will learn how to ground themselves when talking about sensitive topics, helping teens form their own values and beliefs. Cost: $150

Training for Educators

This training is appropriate for educators who are looking to enhance their sexual educator skills. The training will take place over the course of three days with a 90 minute session each day and will cover the following topics: Creating a safe learning environment, Answering Sensitive Questions, Boundaries & Self-Disclosure, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Experiential, and Learning Cycle. Price $175

Passion2Power: Get Bold. Be Heard. Make Change

This training will teach you how to speak out with confidence as you advocate for change at public meetings and more. Passion2Power is designed to give actionable information and hands-on practice.

Training For Educators

This training is appropriate for educators who are looking to enhance their sexual educator skills. The training will take place over the course of three days with a 90 minute session each day and will cover the following topics: Creating a safe learning environment, Answering Sensitive Questions, Boundaries & Self-Disclosure, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Experiential, and Learning Cycle. Price $175

Modeling Consent for Disabled + Nonspeaking Youth

Instruction of consent skills often relies heavily on verbal check-ins and confirmation of understanding...but what does consent look like for those who are nonspeaking or have cognitive impairments? This workshop explores best practices to maximize agency for all young people..

Receiving a ‘No’: Rejection Literacy in Sex Ed

This workshop will explore the importance of how we receive a ‘no’ and best practices for teaching rejection literacy in sex ed. Topics will cover different kinds of communication and navigating power dynamics in conversations of consent, to support us all in respecting the desires of others.

Exploring Consent: Strategies for Caregivers

This session will explore updated communication strategies to help caregivers move conversations about consent beyond just yes or no, providing more impactful guidance for sexual health and safety.

Unsensational: The Reality of Reporting

In cases of sexual or interpersonal violence, educators often guide youth toward the criminal legal system as a primary response.If we are encouraging minors to report or are mandated to ourselves, we should understand what the process entails and take steps to prepare young people and help manage expectations.

‘We Contain Multitudes’: Consent & Adolescent Non-monogamy

This session will provide an overview of what non-monogamy is and is not, foundational questions of consent in a non-monogamous context, and a deeper dive into stigma, power, privilege, and the possibility of coerced consent.