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  • May Lunch-N-Learn: Talking with Teens About Sexting

    As the online teenage landscape rapidly changes, the term “sexting” has become ambiguous and has come to mean different things to students and to educators. Join us as we define sexting and discuss prevention and intervention tactics.

    Free

  • Communicating in Unreasonable Times: Responding to Parent/Caregiver Concerns Regarding Sex Ed

    Lauren Barineau

    This two-day training will highlight key strategies to effectively respond to and communicate with parents/caregivers regarding sex education. This essential skills training will prioritize a transfer of content on day one and an opportunity to practice with low stakes virtual professional development software on day two. Practicing with the full support of a content expert will allow attendees the ability to practice the skills as they make progress on communicating in difficult times.

    $100

  • Let’s Talk About Sex…Education! Educator Peer Learning

    Cardea Training Center
    Join us to share your sexual health education successes lessons learned and to hear from your colleagues about what has worked well and what they have learned teaching sexual health education this year.

  • North Carolina Sexual Health Conference

    Promoting interdisciplinary coordination among members of advocacy, clinical care, education, human/social services and research, to share innovative approaches, best practices and practical applications for the enhancement of sexual health across the lifespan in North Carolina.

    NC SEXCON is targeted towards individuals working in and across the sexual health field, including clinical care, education, reproductive health and justice, HIV/ STDs, LGBTQ healthcare, advocacy, policy development, and overall sexuality from birth to death. $425

  • Contraception What’s New, What’s the Same, and How to Help People Decide What’s Best for Them

    Evelyn Resh
    Contraceptive methods fall into two categories: hormonal and non-hormonal. Sex educators who are fully informed about the mechanism of action for pregnancy prevention of all method are best poised to help people decide what would be best for them to use to prevent an unintended pregnancy. This course will up-date participants on all available methods and their side-effects profile.

    $30

  • Call for Proposals: NSEC 2023

    National Sex Ed Conference
    Please fill out the information below to submit a webinar or in-person workshop proposal for the 2023 National Sex Ed Conference. If you have any questions or for support in filling out the form, please contact proposals@sexedconference.com.
    Submissions are due by May 15, 2023.

  • AASECT Virtual Conference

    Get the latest information relating to sex counseling, therapy, education, and more! Virtual and in-person portions of the program will maximize collaboration and new connections.

  • Training for Educators

    Advocates for Youth - Brittany McBride
    This training is appropriate for educators who are looking to enhance their sexual educator skills. $150
    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

  • Stacking the Deck: Using Games in Sex Ed

    Kelly Jean Gainor
    Using games to teach sensitive content is nothing new, every sex educator has a few in their bag of tricks! But games can be used for so much more than just increasing participation, including developing rapport, increasing comfort, and decreasing stigma. Join us to learn more about the best (and most fun) ways to use games in your classroom. $30

  • Pansexual & Panromantic Visibility Day

    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.

  • R.I.S.E. Celebrating Youth Expertise & Advocacy

    In this session Steph offers a historical timeline of youth-driven disruptions, organizations and movement spaces, while offering space to unpack our learned adultism/authority complex over young people. $44.44

  • International Menstrual Hygiene Day

    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.

  • Healthy Youth Act Lobby Day

    Featured

    May is #SexEdforAllMonth. Join us on May 30 at the State House as we advocate for better sex and relationship education for all students in Massachusetts. Register to attend here: https://bit.ly/HealthyYouth2023. #HealthyYouthAct #mapoli

  • 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.

  • Training for Trainers

    (4) 2-hour sessions, $200 per person
    For a sex education champion who is looking to train and support educators. These trainings consist of four, 120-minute virtual training sessions covering the following topics:
    Openers/Closers/Energizers
    Adult Learning Principles
    Follow-up Support
    Training Logistics
    Adult Learning Styles
    Challenging Participants
    Partnering with Parents/Caregivers
    Trainer: Brittany McBride, MPH