Calendar of Events

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All events noted in Eastern Time

Love146: Trafficking 101

In this guided presentation, participants will learn about the vulnerabilities youth experience and how they connect to grooming tactics. The presenters will discuss realistic steps youth-serving professionals can take to identify and respond to suspected exploitation. In addition, there will be practical application on assisting youth to develop safety plans.

Event Series Circles of Safety Virtual Classroom Series

Circles of Safety: Awareness to Action for Youth-Serving Professionals

Bringing both the research and facts and the personal stories and experiences from Stop It Now!'s Helpline and public education activities, Circles of Safety is designed to help adults in youth-serving organizations not only learn about the scope of sexual abuse and prevention strategies, but to feel confident, comfortable, and empowered to take action steps to keep children safe from sexual harm. Mon-Thurs 1-4pm training. $285

National Sex Ed Conference – Atlantic City, NJ

The National Sex Ed Conference is the largest conference in the United States designed exclusively for sexuality educators. Sessions address sexuality education for all ages, in all types of settings, and are highly interactive and give participants materials they can replicate. The conference is hosted by The Center for Sex Education (CSE). The largest conference in the United States exclusively devoted to sexuality education. Participants attend from across the nation and many other parts of the world to network and learn best practices in sexuality education, addressing a spectrum of topics, audiences, and ages. $345 online /$545 in person

Elevatus Training: What, Wait! You Want Me to Talk About Sexuality? (I/DD)

For professionals who work with people with IDD:
Healthy relationship boundaries are an important skill for us all. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities need the information and skills to navigate these waters and learn what’s okay and not okay in various settings.

This FREE 60 minute webinar will explore tips and tools for addressing sexuality one-on-one with the individuals you work with . We will explore why this topic can be difficult to approach and useful tools that will help you become more comfortable and confident and communicate about this sensitive topic.

Preconceived: A Film Screening to Benefit Reproductive Equity Now

Join us for a private screening of this eye opening documentary exposing the dangers of anti-abortion centers (or so-called “crisis pregnancy centers”).
Tickets are $25 and include a complimentary snack and beverage. Please consider an additional gift to support Reproductive Equity Now's efforts to guide patients towards comprehensive, medically-based reproductive care.

Sexy Spoonies and Crip Sex

More than one-fourth of adults are disabled. While society perpetuates the ableist idea that disabled individuals are not sexual, this is wrong. This webinar covers intersections of disability and sexuality, including coming out to and discussing a disabled identity with partners, how to communicate about disability needs regarding sex (such as personal care assistants, sex toys, etc.), trying new experiences, using accurate terminology, negotiating sex, and more. $30

Join us for the Healthy Youth Act Letter-to-the-Editor (LTE) Workshop!

Are you looking for an effective way to raise awareness and support of the Healthy Youth Act? Do you want to let legislators know about the importance of passing the Healthy Youth Act? Do you want to use your voice to reach lawmakers in support of this critical bill?
Healthy Youth Act LTE Workshop and we'll teach you about submitting letters-to-the-editor to local publications!
Free

LiFT Workshop

Parents/caregivers and teens, join us for LiFT, a powerful 6-hour workshop led by Certified Sexual Health Educators from EyesOpenIowa. Developed by Planned Parenthood, LiFT focuses on empowering teens through open conversations with trusted adults. Engage in activities, form genuine connections, and navigate tough talks about relationships and sexual health with professional guidance. Enjoy complimentary snacks, lunch, and a swag bag for each participant. Strengthen bonds, create memories, and register by Jan 13 with code FAMILY for free access (value $250/person).

A Special Presentation! Lunch-N-Learn Featuring Jess Mcintosh

Disinformation campaigns take a lot out of you — because they're designed to! Learn how to restore, replenish, and not let the bad guys win in this session hosted by EyesOpenIowa and featuring veteran communications strategist Jess Mcintosh. You'll learn tips for combatting mis- and disinformation, talking to your networks, rallying your troops and taking care of yourselves in the process. Free!

Talking About Relationships (Gr 7-12) for Schools/Families on Zoom

Power Up Education offers a variety of highly effective and customized sexual health tutorials and workshops designed to provide a FUN and RELAXED atmosphere where people can increase their knowledge, motivation and skills to achieve optimal sexual health.
From $43.90

Hip Hop and African American History as Teaching Tools to Reduce Sexual Risky Behavior, Part 2

The rise of gangs and smaller variations of gang affiliation have contributed to the increase in juvenile delinquent behavior, such as drug dealing, interpersonal violence, teenage pregnancy, and school absenteeism in urban and rural communities nationwide. Innovative intervention programs and strategies are needed to reduce juvenile delinquent behaviors. Join us for this follow-up to the prior lecture, “Teaching Hip Hop as a Sexual Risk Reduction Tool.” $30

MAHPERD School Health Education Conference

This dynamic conference is solely devoted to health educators who seek excellence in health education appropriate practices and strategies. Partners in Sex Ed will be presenting: Name It Claim It Stop It - a strategy for responding to misconduct.

It is a wonderful opportunity to network and gather to discuss issues, concerns, ideas and successes with health educators from MA.
See you there! $119 includes lunch

Talking About Safer Sex (Gr 7-12) for Schools/Families on Zoom

Power Up Education offers a variety of highly effective and customized sexual health tutorials and workshops designed to provide a FUN and RELAXED atmosphere where people can increase their knowledge, motivation and skills to achieve optimal sexual health.
From $43.90

Integrating Emotional Wellness in Sex Education

Condoms? Check. Testing? Check. Boundaries? Check. Think your curriculum is complete? Please, think again. This training is an invitation to create sex education that centers the whole person, not just their “reproductive” parts. According to a recent Harvard study, many young people report feeling failed by sex education in understanding/navigating their emotions and relationships. It’s time to move beyond an intercourse-centered framework, into one that helps learners understand and affirm their experiences. This is intentional sex education, this is self-development.
Starting from $22.22

Talking About Sexting (ON ZOOM)

Power Up Education offers a variety of highly effective and customized sexual health tutorials and workshops designed to provide a FUN and RELAXED atmosphere where people can increase their knowledge, motivation and skills to achieve optimal sexual health.
From $43.90

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.

Event Series Period Talk with Kerri

Period Talk with Kerri

LIVE
Register for location
This engaging and informative event will include:​
1. Introductions. Family 1, 2, 3. Trusted adults. Vulva model. Reproductive system. Reproductive sort. Questions. Why do we have a period? What is a period? When will I get my period? What to expect? Symptoms? Managing Emergencies. Period management (TSS). Hygiene. Build a period kit. Q&A

Event Series Circles of Safety Virtual Classroom Series

Circles of Safety: Awareness to Action for Youth-Serving Professionals

Bringing both the research and facts and the personal stories and experiences from Stop It Now!'s Helpline and public education activities, Circles of Safety is designed to help adults in youth-serving organizations not only learn about the scope of sexual abuse and prevention strategies, but to feel confident, comfortable, and empowered to take action steps to keep children safe from sexual harm. Mon-Thurs 1-4pm training. $285

February Lunch-N-Learn: Motivational Interviewing

Join us for an engaging Lunch-n-Learn session led by Shawna Jesse, Health Educator at Together for Youth in Waterloo, IA. Shawna will delve into the power of Motivational Interviewing and its application in discussions with young people, particularly in the realm of sexual health education. Gain insights into effective communication strategies and learn how to empower youth through meaningful conversations. This session is a valuable opportunity for sexual health educators and youth-serving adults to enhance their skills and create positive impacts in the lives of young individuals. Don't miss out on this informative session that promises to enrich your approach to fostering open dialogues on sensitive topics. Free

Talking About Sexting (Gr 7-12) for Schools/Families on Zoom

Power Up Education offers a variety of highly effective and customized sexual health tutorials and workshops designed to provide a FUN and RELAXED atmosphere where people can increase their knowledge, motivation and skills to achieve optimal sexual health.
From $43.90

Parenting the Parent in Sexuality Education

This workshop examines the current relationship between parents and sexuality education, while suggesting actionable steps on how to create an effective (and not always pleasant) partnership with parents to provide our youth with comprehensive sexuality education that dismantles harmful systems, ideologies, and practices. $30

Ignite the Capitol – Advocacy Day at Mass. State House

Join our Advocacy Day at the State House to hear from activists and legislator champions about the bills on our feminist agenda, and join a small group of activists in meeting with your State Representative and Senator. Meetings will be 15-20 minutes long, and no policy experience is necessary – just your own lived experience! Everyone will participate in small 30 minutes group training before meeting with your legislators. Advocacy packets for attendees and legislator packets will prepared for everyone.

Talking About Pornography (Gr 7-12) for Schools/Families on Zoom

Power Up Education offers a variety of highly effective and customized sexual health tutorials and workshops designed to provide a FUN and RELAXED atmosphere where people can increase their knowledge, motivation and skills to achieve optimal sexual health.
From $43.90

Elevatus Training: What, Wait! You Want Me to Talk About Sexuality? (I/DD)

For professionals who work with people with IDD:
Healthy relationship boundaries are an important skill for us all. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities need the information and skills to navigate these waters and learn what’s okay and not okay in various settings.

This FREE 60 minute webinar will explore tips and tools for addressing sexuality one-on-one with the individuals you work with . We will explore why this topic can be difficult to approach and useful tools that will help you become more comfortable and confident and communicate about this sensitive topic.

Gender and Sexual Orientation (Gr 7-12) for Schools/Families on Zoom

Power Up Education offers a variety of highly effective and customized sexual health tutorials and workshops designed to provide a FUN and RELAXED atmosphere where people can increase their knowledge, motivation and skills to achieve optimal sexual health.
From $43.90

The Power of Zines for Sex Education!

This presentation will explore how zines (independently made booklets) are a delightful, effective, and remarkably accessible way to share inclusive, uncensored sex education. We will cover how to use preexisting zines as educational materials, as well as how to use the process of zine making as a powerful educational tool. $30

At Your Cervix

Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion on consent. Free!

How We Prevent Extremists From Destroying Public Education

What is up with the chaos we are seeing at school boards? Book bans, legislation prohibiting any discussion of race and anti-LGBTQIA+ policies are popping up nationwide. Why? It is pretty straightforward -- extremists want to defund, dismantle and destroy public education. Limiting access to public education is not new -- it is deeply rooted in our history. Let's discuss those lessons from the past and how they inform what is happening today -- and how we can fight back to protect public education for all! Free!

Event Series Training For Educators

Rights, Respect, Responsibility (3R’s): Training of Educators

For educators who are looking to enhance their sex educator skills. Educator trainings consist of three, 90-minute training sessions that cover the following topics:
Creating a safe learning environment, Answering sensitive questions, Boundaries & self-disclosure, Sexual orientation and gender identity, Experiential Learning Cycle, Connecting home: Communicating with caregivers
February 26-28, 2024 1:00-2:30 PM EST Daily (3) 90-minute sessions, $150 per person.

Talking About Sex Trafficking(Gr 7-12) for Schools/Families on Zoom

Power Up Education offers a variety of highly effective and customized sexual health tutorials and workshops designed to provide a FUN and RELAXED atmosphere where people can increase their knowledge, motivation and skills to achieve optimal sexual health.
From $43.90

Talking About Pornography (ON ZOOM)

Power Up Education offers a variety of highly effective and customized sexual health tutorials and workshops designed to provide a FUN and RELAXED atmosphere where people can increase their knowledge, motivation and skills to achieve optimal sexual health.
From $43.90

Long Line of Ladies Screening

Join us for a screening of the brief documentary (22min) Long Line of Ladies. Long Line of Ladies tells the story of a girl and her community as they prepare for her Ihuk, the once-dormant coming of age ceremony of the Karuk tribe of Northern California.
Following the screening, we will have a discussion with Eva Marie Carney, founder and Executive Director of the Kwek Society. We will also discuss how you can host a similar screening and consciousness raising with your own community!
Sign up to access the Zoom link.

What Is Social Emotional Learning And Why Is It Under Attack?

We know that extremists are attacking public education – and their latest target is social and emotional learning (SEL). What is SEL, why is it an integral part of a student’s education, and how can we protect it? Get answers to these questions by joining us to hear from Justina Schlund, Vice-President of Communications with CASEL. Her organization is leading the way to ensure that SEL is part of a quality and equitable education for all students. Virtual.

March Lunch-N-Learn: Building Trust: The Art of Being a Trusted Adult

Join us for an insightful session as we explore the pivotal role of being a trusted adult in the lives of young people. In this workshop, we'll delve into the qualities and actions that define trustworthiness, offering practical guidance on how to effectively and appropriately fill this crucial role in the lives of adolescents. Discover ways to establish a safe and supportive environment that fosters open dialogue. Whether you're a teacher, mentor, or caregiver, this session will equip you with the tools to make a lasting positive impact on the youth you serve. Free!!

Becoming a Sexuality Educator and Trainer

A 3-Day LIVE on Zoom, ONLINE *certificate training for anyone who works with people with developmental disabilities. $945 – $1,195.

Elevatus Training: What, Wait! You Want Me to Talk About Sexuality? (I/DD)

For professionals who work with people with IDD:
Healthy relationship boundaries are an important skill for us all. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities need the information and skills to navigate these waters and learn what’s okay and not okay in various settings.

This FREE 60 minute webinar will explore tips and tools for addressing sexuality one-on-one with the individuals you work with . We will explore why this topic can be difficult to approach and useful tools that will help you become more comfortable and confident and communicate about this sensitive topic.

Elaborating on ‘The Talk’ in ‘Sex Talks’

Centering Communication Studies in Sexuality Education.
Discussing writings from both emerging and leading scholars in the field of communication researching sex(uality) education, the present lecture seeks to establish the academic discipline of communication as integral to research on sexuality education, discussing topics including family conversations, cultural influence, health inequities in education, and medicine.

Assessing Middle and High School Students’ Sex Education Questions

Young people recognize a gap between sex education as taught in the classroom and the reality of their sexual experiences. The current project assessed young people’s sexual questions by analyzing 1,335 open-ended responses that were anonymously submitted during in-person sex education sessions. These results should be used to inform the development of needs-driven sex education programming.

Periods and Wet Dreams: Teaching Puberty in Elementary School

Puberty: a time of great (and sometimes daunting) change for both young people and the adults in their lives. This interactive, full-day training will provide educators, school nurses, youth-serving professionals, and other caring adults with skills and strategies for teaching pubescent youth about their changing bodies, emotional growth, and navigating the path to adulthood in a way that is inclusive of students of all genders and sexual identities. Through a social emotional learning lens, participants will have an opportunity to engage in lessons and activities that will build their own skills to teach anatomy, menstruation, hygiene, cultivating empathy, and more.

Event Series STD Awareness Month

STD Awareness Month

This STD Awareness Month, ASHA is drawing attention to the importance of STD testing. As part of this effort, we are promoting a new campaign—YES Means TEST. Having sex is a choice, and so is saying healthy. Saying yes to sex should mean saying yes to test!

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.

April Lunch-N-Learn: Navigating Peer Dynamics: Realistic Strategies for Positive Teen Empowerment

Discover practical strategies for guiding teens through peer pressure challenges and leveraging positive influences. This session equips educators and youth-serving adults with tools to foster resilience, informed decision-making, and a supportive peer network. Join us for a concise, impactful exploration of navigating peer dynamics realistically and promoting positive teen empowerment. Free!!

Ending HIV | “Why Caring About Ending HIV = Caring About Sex Ed!

Join us for a live-streaming conversation talking about the HIV epidemic and the role of sex education in demystifying and destigmatizing HIV. Free
- Build connections: Deepen your knowledge about how equipping individuals with accurate information and fostering a culture of open dialogue around sexuality are pivotal steps toward ending the HIV epidemic.
- Policy solutions: Whether you're a healthcare professional, educator, or community advocate, you can learn what federal policies support HIV prevention, people living with HIV, and sex education.

Becoming a Sexuality Educator and Trainer

A 3-Day LIVE on Zoom, ONLINE *certificate training for anyone who works with people with developmental disabilities. $945 – $1,195.

Youth Rights Roundtable

Join shOUT for a conversation among young adults as we explore the needs youth have compared to the education and access they get to sexual and reproductive health education, care, and resources. ZOOM

Creating Consent Culture – Spring Certification

This course is for you if you would like to teach consent skills in a fun and interactive way. You are already teaching consent, but you would like to learn a fun and interactive way to teach it to teens and tweens. You are already teaching young people, but you would like to teach them essential consent skills in an age-appropriate and trauma-sensitive way. You would like to make a difference in the world and still thrive. After taking this 8-week course, you will be certified and confident to teach the Consent Culture Intro Workshop. $1350

Teaching Youth about Relationships

The presentation provides guidance for secondary school teachers and counselors and professionals working with adolescents in out-of-school settings, such as group homes, agencies, and faith communities. It describes how to develop a course or program series on romantic relationships and how to approach each class as a unique experience, tailoring content and methodology to the students. $30

Event Series STD Awareness Week

STD Awareness Week

STD Awareness Week, observed the second full week in April, provides an opportunity to raise awareness about STDs and how they impact our lives; reduce STD-related stigma, fear, and discrimination; and ensure people have the tools and knowledge to prevent, test for, and treat STDs.

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. Participants will learn strategies to teach critical thinking skills about media literacy, how to discuss SEM with young people, and leave with activities to utilize in the classroom. Zoom. $195

Elevatus Training: What, Wait! You Want Me to Talk About Sexuality? (I/DD)

For professionals who work with people with IDD:
Healthy relationship boundaries are an important skill for us all. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities need the information and skills to navigate these waters and learn what’s okay and not okay in various settings.

This FREE 60 minute webinar will explore tips and tools for addressing sexuality one-on-one with the individuals you work with . We will explore why this topic can be difficult to approach and useful tools that will help you become more comfortable and confident and communicate about this sensitive topic.

Menstrual Equity Consciousness Raising

The Massachusetts Menstrual Equity Coalition is hosting a Menstrual Equity Consciousness Raising to discuss taking action to end period poverty. There will be a period packing party with products donated from Aunt Flow, followed by a panel discussion.

Explicit Materials as Education?

When people with disabilities don’t have access to sexuality education, they often turn to the internet to learn about sexuality. There may be some accurate and useful online resources and websites for learning, but we know that many may use explicit materials to gain knowledge and skills regarding sexuality. We can’t ignore and tell people they can’t use explicit materials to learn, but we can teach more about the purpose of these explicit materials and ways to view these materials with a critical eye. In this workshop, we will review the important points to make about these materials, tools for teaching, and tips for sharing resources that promote sexually healthy education. $30

Power, Identity, Relationships

What is power and how does it affect consent, attraction, and dating? This lecture integrates lived experiences, pop culture, and social science to explore how young people can navigate power differentials and empower one another. $30-$35.
Oronde Cruger & Mackenzie Bartlett.

COLLECTIVE POWER 2024

This year’s conference theme will explore ways of organizing, connecting, and cultivating practices that center impacted communities, foster collective resistance, and practice community care. How can we exercise creativity and art as tools for resistance? What can we learn from one another in our different movements in the pursuit of our collective liberation? We will explore these questions and more with panel discussions led by advocates, activists, artists, and healers from communities most impacted by reproductive injustice. $370-$1000.
REGISTER BY APRIL 5th.

Advocates for Youth: Training for Educators

Three 90-minute sessions for educators who are looking to enhance their sex educator skills. Training covers the following topics: Creating a safe learning environment, Answering sensitive questions, Boundaries & self-disclosure, Sexual orientation and gender identity, Experiential Learning Cycle, Connecting home: Communicating with caregivers
Trainer: Lauren Barineau, MPH $150

Talking to Neurodivergent Kids About Sex Series

I am excited to bring you this series of three classes, especially for parents and caregivers of neurodivergent kids ages nine to twelve. $99
What Neurodivergent Kids Need to Know - Tuesday, March 26th (past classes are recorded)
Puberty Prep for PARENTS of Neurodivergent Kids! Tuesday, April 16th
How to Keep Neurodivergent Kids Safer Online -Tuesday, May 7th

Healthy/ Unhealthy Relationship Characteristics

This workshop focuses friendship and romantic relationships and can be applied to family and sexual relationships as well. Participants work together to define intimacy and examine behaviors they find important in friendships and romantic relationships. They identify healthy and unhealthy relationship characteristics and learn how to nurture healthy relationship behaviors and address unhealthy ones. ZOOM

Maine 18th Annual Comprehensive Sexuality Education Conference

Maine’s annual conference 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.
Rockport, Maine. $80.

Talking About Gender and Sexual Orientation (ON ZOOM)

Power Up Education offers a variety of highly effective and customized sexual health tutorials and workshops designed to provide a FUN and RELAXED atmosphere where people can increase their knowledge, motivation and skills to achieve optimal sexual health.
From $43.90

Event Series Period Talk with Kerri

Period Talk with Kerri

LIVE
Register for location
This engaging and informative event will include:​
1. Introductions. Family 1, 2, 3. Trusted adults. Vulva model. Reproductive system. Reproductive sort. Questions. Why do we have a period? What is a period? When will I get my period? What to expect? Symptoms? Managing Emergencies. Period management (TSS). Hygiene. Build a period kit. Q&A

Build-A-Skill Designing A Skills Based Family Communication Workshop

This lecture introduces best practices for designing an objective-driven, skills-based workshop for families to enhance their ability to talk with kids about sexuality. We go beyond the powerpoints that are often the focus of parent presentations and instead emphasize a set of skills that increases parents’ comfort and confidence. $30-$35.
Lauren Barineau, MPH, CHES®

Event Series Circles of Safety Virtual Classroom Series

Circles of Safety: Awareness to Action for Youth-Serving Professionals

Bringing both the research and facts and the personal stories and experiences from Stop It Now!'s Helpline and public education activities, Circles of Safety is designed to help adults in youth-serving organizations not only learn about the scope of sexual abuse and prevention strategies, but to feel confident, comfortable, and empowered to take action steps to keep children safe from sexual harm. Mon-Thurs 1-4pm training. $285

The National Sex Ed Conference Proposals.

Exciting news! The National Sex Ed Conference, the largest conference in the United States exclusively for sexuality educators is now accepting proposals for its 2024 conference.
If your proposal is accepted, you’ll receive a $100 discount off the main registration fee (Early Bird Registration $460 and Regular Registration is $560). Final decisions will be communicated by July 31, 2024.

Inclusive Language in Sexuality Education

This lecture emphasizes using inclusive language to create safe and supportive learning environments. It covers gender-neutral terminology and diverse sexual orientations, offering insights for enhancing sexuality education approaches. Educators can foster an inclusive learning experience by validating all students’ identities and experiences. $30-$35
Mikayla Crawford

Talking About Sex Trafficking(ON ZOOM)

Power Up Education offers a variety of highly effective and customized sexual health tutorials and workshops designed to provide a FUN and RELAXED atmosphere where people can increase their knowledge, motivation and skills to achieve optimal sexual health.
From $43.90

Elevatus Training: What, Wait! You Want Me to Talk About Sexuality? (I/DD)

For professionals who work with people with IDD:
Healthy relationship boundaries are an important skill for us all. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities need the information and skills to navigate these waters and learn what’s okay and not okay in various settings.

This FREE 60 minute webinar will explore tips and tools for addressing sexuality one-on-one with the individuals you work with . We will explore why this topic can be difficult to approach and useful tools that will help you become more comfortable and confident and communicate about this sensitive topic.

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.

Event Series 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.

Middle School Curriculum Training (in person)

Get a one year subscription to the curriculum and 20 hours (3 days) of detailed and interactive IN PERSON training on how to teach UN|HUSHED: The High School Curriculum. Your trainers this year are curricula co-authors Karen Rayne, PhD, CSE and Jessica Smarr, MPH. $695
Location: Austin, TX this year!

Slang, Sex, and Safety Exploring Post-Secondary Campus Climate

This lecture will explore how slang, sexuality, and safety intersect in the lives of post-secondary university students from diverse sexual, gender, and racialized identities. Critical feminist theories are employed to interpret how these young people assign meaning to and resist aspects of campus culture, namely bro culture and institutional betrayal. $30-$35.
Treena Orchard

High School Curriculum Training (in person)

Get a one year subscription to the curriculum and 20 hours (3 days) of detailed and interactive IN PERSON TRAINING on how to teach UN|HUSHED: The High School Curriculum. Your trainers this year are curricula author Karen Rayne, PhD, CSE and Upper School Educator Kate B. Jones, LCSW. $695
Location
Austin, TX (Oak Hill area) this year!

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.

AASECT Annual Conference St Louis, MO

Get the latest information relating to sex counseling, therapy, education, and more! In-person and Virtual. In a time when fundamental human rights are not guaranteed, we face some of the most significant challenges of our time. AASECT joins in answering new calls to collective liberation — where underutilized and historically oppressed voices are centered, where advocacy is transformed into action, and where we can create a more just world for all of us.

Elevatus Training: What, Wait! You Want Me to Talk About Sexuality? (I/DD)

For professionals who work with people with IDD:
Healthy relationship boundaries are an important skill for us all. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities need the information and skills to navigate these waters and learn what’s okay and not okay in various settings.

This FREE 60 minute webinar will explore tips and tools for addressing sexuality one-on-one with the individuals you work with . We will explore why this topic can be difficult to approach and useful tools that will help you become more comfortable and confident and communicate about this sensitive topic.

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.

What Lessons Might the Netflix Series ‘Sex Education’ Teach School-Based Sexuality Education? Exploring Post-Secondary Campus Climate

How does the Netflix series ‘Sex Education’ attend to young people’s critique of school-based sexuality education? This lecture will explore what and how educative content is offered to young people about sex, sexuality and gender in the first 3 seasons. It is argued the series successfully addresses many critiques young people make of conventional school-based sexuality education. $30-$35.
Louisa Allen.

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.

Elevatus Training: What, Wait! You Want Me to Talk About Sexuality? (I/DD)

For professionals who work with people with IDD:
Healthy relationship boundaries are an important skill for us all. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities need the information and skills to navigate these waters and learn what’s okay and not okay in various settings.

This FREE 60 minute webinar will explore tips and tools for addressing sexuality one-on-one with the individuals you work with . We will explore why this topic can be difficult to approach and useful tools that will help you become more comfortable and confident and communicate about this sensitive topic.

Becoming a Sexuality Educator and Trainer

A 3-Day LIVE on Zoom, ONLINE *certificate training for anyone who works with people with developmental disabilities. The goal of this training is to train an employee to become your agency’s or school's staff/parent trainer and sexuality educator. This person will become more confident and comfortable leading sexuality education classes for people with I/DD as well as train staff and parents either one-on-one or in groups, so they can promote the sexual health of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. You will leave with new knowledge and skills, and curriculum with handouts and teaching tools so you can begin as soon as you return to work following the training. $1,195.

Flowing with Power and Celebrating Cycles

“Celebrating Cycles” offers educators and practitioners helpful information to reshape societal perceptions of menstruation. We will explore historical and cultural insights across diverse backgrounds and help participants explore their approach to addressing these understandings to suit their audience, emphasizing the natural aspects of menstruation and embracing cultural diversity. $30.
Casey T. Tobin, PhD &
Keely Rees, PhD
Speakers

Certificate Program in Social Justice and Sexuality Education

The Certificate Program in Social Justice and Sexuality Education offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between social justice and human sexuality. This interdisciplinary program provides a nuanced understanding of diverse perspectives, theories, and practices related to sexuality within the context of social justice frameworks. Instructor - Tanya Bass, PhD, MS, MEd, CHES®, CSE $1495

Embracing Digital Education Sex Ed To-Go as Case Study

Sex Ed To-Go is an invaluable and FREE online sex education resource provided by Planned Parenthood Pacific Southwest. Discover the driving force behind this product, the challenges and valuable insights it offers, and how it can benefit you. $30.
Chrissy Cmorik
Rebecca Karpinski
Speakers

STIgma: Let’s Talk about It

STIs remain a pervasive global health challenge, affecting millions of individuals each year. This presentation serves as a call to action, urging participants to be advocates in reshaping language, challenging beliefs, and fostering supportive environments. Join us in breaking barriers, redefining language, and shattering stereotypes on the way to a stigma-free future. $30

Break Up Summit 2024

Get ready to heal, grow, and thrive after heartbreak at Break Up Summit 2024 - the ultimate event for moving on and finding your best self!
Free!

Project 2025: The Stakes for Sex Education

By now you’ve probably heard about Project 2025, the far-right’s detailed plan to turn the country into an authoritarian theocracy should Trump manage to regain power.
But have you heard that eliminating sex ed is essential to their plan? And do you know how to fight back?
Free!