Consent education shouldn’t wait until high school. This free virtual session offers age-appropriate strategies for teaching boundaries, communication, and respect to middle school students in engaging and empowering ways.

Consent education shouldn’t wait until high school. This free virtual session offers age-appropriate strategies for teaching boundaries, communication, and respect to middle school students in engaging and empowering ways.

RSVP for our FREE Introductory Training: Understanding Supports for Disability and Sexuality with Among Friends, LLC
We are delighted you can join us for our introductory Training Session regarding disability and sexuality. There is no charge for this training.

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. Learn how to combine field-tested messages with your own personal experience to create a powerful story that can inspire change. Learn how to deliver your message effectively at a public meeting or one-on-one with legislators or journalists. Learn how local and state government works when you're advocating for policy change.

Stay up-to-date on recent legislative changes impacting sex education in Iowa. Learn how to stay compliant, advocate effectively, and ensure your students still receive accurate, inclusive, and empowering education. (Cost: $35)

Stay up-to-date on recent legislative changes impacting sex education in Iowa. Learn how to stay compliant, advocate effectively, and ensure your students still receive accurate, inclusive, and empowering education. (Cost: $35)

Any youth-serving professional – whether it's named in their job description or not – may encounter the topics of relationships, sex, sexual health, and sexuality in their work with young people. These topics are part of our everyday realities. This virtual training will help you effectively navigate these conversations in a trauma-informed and intentional way, as well as provide best practices for creating a safe and inclusive space for the young people you work with. (Cost: $225)

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.

This virtual half-day training helps educators teach comprehensive sex ed in a way that includes pleasure while still providing students with valuable health and safety information. This workshop will cover ways to be pleasure-inclusive in typical sex education lessons about consent, communication, and anatomy. Participants will leave this training ready to bring honest, empowering, and non-stigmatizing conversations about sexual health into their classrooms. (Cost: $150)

Nationally recognized Sexual Health Educator and therapist Emily Gillon leads this bite-size virtual session that packs a punch! Emily will clarify common myths and misunderstandings in sexual health education. Topics to be announced. (Cost: $20)

Learn a broad set of tools to understand and support the sexual health, self-determination, and development of people you support. These tools are beneficial for anyone, and especially helpful for people who work with someone who experiences intellectual and/or developmental diversity. (Cost: $345)

RSVP for our FREE Introductory Training: Understanding Supports for Disability and Sexuality with Among Friends, LLC
We are delighted you can join us for our introductory Training Session regarding disability and sexuality. There is no charge for this training.

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. Learn how to combine field-tested messages with your own personal experience to create a powerful story that can inspire change. Learn how to deliver your message effectively at a public meeting or one-on-one with legislators or journalists.

For everyone who works with or cares for children/youth. In this workshop, you will learn about the prevalence of peer to peer sexual harm, why language matters, developmentally appropriate sexual play, child sexual behaviour chart, concerning sexual behaviour, statistics, primary causes of peer to peer sexual harm, age of onset, risk factors, sibling sexual harm, minor attracted youth, high risk locations, and more. (Cost: $37.42)

Learn about how to teach sensitive material through a trauma-informed lens that prioritizes safety, student autonomy, and emotional regulation.

Learn about how to teach sensitive material through a trauma-informed lens that prioritizes safety, student autonomy, and emotional regulation.

This full-day virtual training is for professionals committed to creating inclusive spaces for all sexual identities and genders. It covers current vocabulary, gender-neutral language, correct pronouns, and responding to identity questions, with skill-building through real-life examples. Open to educators, nurses, coaches, HR staff, health providers, disability service providers, youth workers, and more. $195

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.

In this interactive, half-day virtual workshop, educators will identify types of sexuality questions, examine the role personal values play in answering these questions, and develop facilitation skills needed to answer sexuality questions in their teaching. During the workshop, participants will practice responding to real questions from real kids, receive feedback, and leave with increased confidence in their ability to respond to challenging questions. $195

Nationally recognized Sexual Health Educator and therapist Emily Gillon leads this bite-size virtual session that packs a punch! Emily will clarify common myths and misunderstandings in sexual health education. Topics to be announced. (Cost: $20)

Learn a broad set of tools to understand and support the sexual health, self-determination, and development of people you support. These tools are beneficial for anyone, and especially helpful for people who work with someone who experiences intellectual and/or developmental diversity. (Cost: $345)

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.

Nationally recognized Sexual Health Educator and therapist Emily Gillon leads this bite-size virtual session that packs a punch! Emily will clarify common myths and misunderstandings in sexual health education. Topics to be announced. (Cost: $20)

Learn about what Crisis Pregnancy Centers are and how they work to mislead individuals seeking reproductive care, often using purity culture and misinformation. Gain tools to educate students and clients on accessing medically accurate, unbiased services. (Cost: $150)

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.

Nationally recognized Sexual Health Educator and therapist Emily Gillon leads this bite-size virtual session that packs a punch! Emily will clarify common myths and misunderstandings in sexual health education. Topics to be announced. (Cost: $20)

In this session of EyesOpenIowa’s “Lunch-N-Learn” Series, go beyond “no means no” and explore how power, identity, and equity shape consent education. Free and virtual!

In this session of EyesOpenIowa’s “Lunch-N-Learn” Series, go beyond “no means no” and explore how power, identity, and equity shape consent education. Free and virtual!

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)

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.

Whether your kid asks out of the blue or you’re just ready to start the conversation, this session gives you age-appropriate, shame-free ways to talk about where babies come from. We’ll share language for kids ages 3 to 9, five sample scripts you can try at home, and tips for staying calm and confident. Free and virtual!

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)

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.

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)

We will explore the emerging concept of accessible health education (AHE), disability justice and ways that ableism can impact students. We will share key strategies you can use to support students with disabilities in your health education classroom, including some examples and resources. You will leave with tools for your “AHE toolbox”. Lunch is included.

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).

Sexual identities across the queer spectrum are often presented as worrisome, painful, and something people often experience hate as a result of. Instead, presenting queer identities as celebratory can positively shift how young people see themselves and their peers now and in the future. Faculty: Dr. Karen Rayne (Cost: $35)

Join us for a hands-on training on how to use our breakthrough script to move people from fear to support for teaching kids gender-inclusive sex ed! You'll get coaching, support, practice and community. 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 stakeholders, this training is for you. (FREE)

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)

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

This workshop builds a shared understanding of trauma and resilience through a trauma-informed instructional lens. Participants will examine Tier 1 classroom strategies that support student well-being, engagement, and regulation during instruction, including routines, relationships, and learning environments. The session will also highlight how individual instructional practices connect to and reinforce cohesive, schoolwide systems of support. Lunch is included.

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)

Explore how trauma, past or ongoing, shapes the classroom experience. This session offers practical, strengths-based strategies for trauma-informed teaching, including how to balance student safety with curriculum fidelity. (FREE)

Explore how trauma, past or ongoing, shapes the classroom experience. This session offers practical, strengths-based strategies for trauma-informed teaching, including how to balance student safety with curriculum fidelity. (FREE)

Through frameworks such as sexual multiepistemic literacy, auto-sexual-decolonization, and Osunality (or African eroticism), educators will explore how to center pleasure, relational accountability, embodied wisdom, and learner self-determination in sexuality education that promotes healing, dignity and liberation. (Cost: $18-34)

We’ve tried them all so you don’t have to! This session shares our favorite books, websites, social media accounts, and conversation tools that make talking about sex and relationships with kids a little easier, and a lot less awkward. (FREE)

The one-day speaker training prepares volunteer speakers to conduct interactive speaking engagements in schools, colleges, workplaces, faith communities, and more in the Greater Boston area & beyond. (Cost: $35-75)

This zoom training offers a grounded exploration of reproductive justice; what it is, where it comes from, and why it matters for the communities we serve. Through historical context and a multi-lens framework, you'll deepen your understanding of reproductive autonomy and leave equipped to apply a reproductive justice lens to your everyday work and advocacy.