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This session is a foundational training meant to prepare sexual health educators, school personnel, and other youth work professionals to support young people. Topics covered include holistic sexuality, adolescent growth & development, reproductive health, responding to sensitive questions, values in sexual health education, consent, contraception, and more.

Making Proud Choices (MPC) is an evidence-based, medically accurate teen pregnancy prevention curriculum. The curriculum’s goal is to provide youth with the knowledge, confidence, and skills necessary to reduce their risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, and pregnancy by abstaining from sex or using condoms if they choose to have sex. Participants must attend both training days to become certified educators for MPC.

Positive Prevention Plus (P3) is a comprehensive, evidence-based sexual health and teen pregnancy prevention curriculum for middle and high school aged students. Topics include STI’s, Abusive Relationships, Healthy Relationships, HIV, Contraception, and much more. Participants must attend all four days to become certified educators for P3.

Trauma-Responsive Practices in Sex Education will provide participants with information about the prevalence and impact of trauma on the brain and behavior, including the limitations of how trauma is assessed. This training will lead sex educators through taking a trauma-responsive approach within their classrooms and organizations, including creating an environment conducive to resilience and healing.

Most evidence-based sexual health education curricula address neither the information that directly apply to 2SLGBTQIA+ youth nor best-practices for truly engaging 2SLGBTQIA+ youth in sex ed. This training will equip educators with the tools they need to effectively neutralize their language, expand engagement strategies, and implement curricula adaptations to effectively serve LGBTQ+ youth.

This session is a foundational training meant to prepare sexual health educators, school personnel, and other youth work professionals to support young people. Topics covered include holistic sexuality, adolescent growth & development, reproductive health, responding to sensitive questions, values in sexual health education, consent, contraception, and more.

In this session, participants will learn valuable insights and best practices for replicating a youth-centered program model that shares power with young people, combats internalized Adultism, adapts to unforeseen challenges, and creates spaces where youth can authentically impact their community. This session will be interactive and motivating, with many opportunities to reflect on our work in collaboration with young people and to set goals for the programs that serve them.

Join us at Magic City Books to learn how to start a conversation with your young person about their sexual health and well-being.

This training is recommended for anyone new to Teen Pregnancy Prevention or Sexual Health Education.