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All events noted in Eastern Time

  • 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.

  • Navigating Sexual Self-Confidence From Adolescent To Adult

    The “Navigating Sexual Self-Confidence From Adolescent to Whole Ass Adult” workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to reflect on the harmful and often conflicting messages that young women of color are often subjected to, in many circumstances as an attempt to keep them safe from sexual violence, trauma and pain. Faculty: Natoya S. Brown and Katrina Antoine (Cost: $35)

  • Understanding Law and Policy for Sex Educators

    This training equips participants with a clear understanding of the legal and policy landscape that impacts sex education. Participants will explore the statutes, regulations, and local policies that guide the development and implementation of sexual health programming, confidentiality requirements, parental involvement, and minors’ rights. By the end of the session, educators will be better prepared to navigate these frameworks confidently and responsibly, ensuring that the information they provide is both compliant and empowering for the youth they serve. (Cost: $55.19)

  • How to Talk Sex Ed & Fight Disinformation

    Join us to hear from Jaclyn Friedman of EducateUS about what’s really taught in school, what are the biggest myths, and why disinformation around sex ed is spreading. We’ll break down what age-appropriate education actually looks like, address common misconceptions, and equip you with guidance on how to talk about this issue with family and friends. Plus, we will have actions you can take to stand up for sex education in your schools.

  • 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.

  • May Lunch-N-Learn | Empowering Parents as Primary Sex Educators (Afternoon Session)

    May is Sex Ed For All Month and we believe that sex education belongs in schools AND at home. Join this bite-size professional development opportunity to learn more about how educators can empower parents and caregivers in their roles guiding young people through body changes, understanding consent, and so much more! (FREE)

  • May Lunch-N-Learn | Empowering Parents as Primary Sex Educators (Evening Session)

    May is Sex Ed For All Month and we believe that sex education belongs in schools AND at home. Join this bite-size professional development opportunity to learn more about how educators can empower parents and caregivers in their roles guiding young people through body changes, understanding consent, and so much more! (FREE)

  • Training for Educators | Advocates for Youth

    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. (Cost: $175)

  • Connecting the Dots: Sex Ed, Power, and Sexual Exploitation Webinar

    This FREE webinar will explore through an engaging conversation amongst panelists Shael Norris, Founding Executive Director of SafeBAE and Yasmin Vafa, Esq, Executive Director of Rights4Girls on how age-appropriate, developmentally appropriate sex education can serve as a vital protective tool. While sex education alone cannot prevent trafficking and sexual exploitation, it can help young people identify unhealthy or predatory relationships, build a strong sense of bodily autonomy, understand consent, and know where to turn for help.

  • Confidence Is a Game: How Play Heals Shame

    This lecture explores how play creates safety, curiosity, and permission around sexual confidence. Using a real-world play-based activity as an example, participants will learn how playful, low-pressure environments reduce shame and support embodied sexual self-discovery. Faculty: Bria Price (Cost: $35)

  • Curriculum Development Using the CHPE Framework

    During this session, dive deeper into the CHPE Framework practices to support curriculum development and student learning in health and PE classrooms. The goals of this session are to support practice-focused curriculum planning and explicit teaching of practices in HPE settings. Presented by Lighthouse Wellness and Health Education Consulting, Inc.

  • The Pleasure Principle: Broadening the Scope of Sexuality Education

    Most sex ed skips over pleasure, but it doesn't have to. In this half-day training, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts invites educators to explore how they can be pleasure-inclusive in their sex ed while still teaching students about health and safety. The workshop will focus on incorporating pleasure-inclusive content into lessons about consent, communication, and anatomy. (Cost: $150)

  • YES! ConsentFest 2026

    Join us for the 5th annual ConsentFest! ConsentFest is an outdoors, all-ages celebration of consent in all its forms, featuring organizations doing consent work or work that intersects with consent and bodily autonomy, vendors, music from Ants on a Log, a drag performance, doggies to pet (with consent), FREE Lil Pop Shop popsicles, and other joyful things! The goal is to dream with our community about what consent culture can look like.

  • Designing A Youth Sex Ed Curriculum from Scratch

    Tara brought together renowned sex educators to design a youth sex ed curriculum rooted in one question: What did we wish we’d known at that age? This session explores the curriculum’s pillars, how today’s cultural landscape shaped it, and navigating opt-in/opt-out alongside parents. Faculty: Tara Jones (Cost: $35)

  • 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.

  • Humanizing Pedagogy in HPE: Designing student-centered, culturally responsive and sustaining health and physical education

    Join us for an interactive exploration of humanizing pedagogy in health and physical education. Educators at all levels are welcome to come and explore how humanizing approaches support student-centered, culturally responsive and sustaining, trauma-response and engaging instruction. You will leave with strategies you can use the next day in the classroom, as well as broader ideas and strategies to support ongoing reflection and growth.

  • Reproductive Health and Justice Training

    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.

  • 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.

  • En Esta Casa No Se Habla De Eso: How Sexual Silence Educates Caribbean Youth

    This lecture examines how sexual silence in Dominican and Caribbean families functions as an informal form of sex education. Grounded in social work and sexual health practice, it explores cultural, religious, and gender norms shaping silence and offers culturally responsive strategies to reduce shame, risk, and misinformation. Faculty: Sahory Valdez Torres, MSW, CSW (Cost: $35)

  • 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.

  • Whole, Worthy, and Free: Embracing Healthy Sexuality as Black Queer & Gender Diverse People

    Sex and sexuality remain taboo in American society, fostering misinformation and shame—especially for marginalized communities. The purpose of this presentation is to explore how Black Queer and gender-diverse individuals navigate sexuality and sexuality at intersecting margins and to equip mental health professionals and laypeople with insights for informed and affirming care. Faculty: Joyce Miles Jacquote (Cost: $35)

  • The F*ing Truth About Sexuality After Abuse

    Those who have survived situational or ongoing abuse often feel misunderstood or unsafe, which can cause significant distress in future sexual relationships. This workshop offers strategies for survivors and their partners to understand and advocate their specific needs and explore sexuality from a healing lens. Faculty: Leighanna Nordstrom (Cost: $35)

  • 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.

  • UNHUSHED Elementary School Curriculum Training

    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 Elementary School Curriculum. (Cost: $795)

  • UNHUSHED Elementary School Curriculum Training

    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 Elementary School Curriculum. (Cost: $795)

  • UNHUSHED Elementary School Curriculum Training

    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 Elementary School Curriculum. (Cost: $795)

  • UNHUSHED Middle School Curriculum Training

    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 Middle School Curriculum. Your trainers this year are curricula co-authors Karen Rayne, PhD, CSE and Jessica Smarr, MPH. (Cost: $795)

  • UNHUSHED Middle School Curriculum Training

    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 Middle School Curriculum. Your trainers this year are curricula co-authors Karen Rayne, PhD, CSE and Jessica Smarr, MPH. (Cost: $795)

  • UNHUSHED Middle School Curriculum Training

    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 Middle School Curriculum. Your trainers this year are curricula co-authors Karen Rayne, PhD, CSE and Jessica Smarr, MPH. (Cost: $795)

  • UNHUSHED High School Curriculum Training

    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. (Cost: $795)

  • UNHUSHED High School Curriculum Training

    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. (Cost: $795)

  • UNHUSHED High School Curriculum Training

    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. (Cost: $795)

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.