Workshop Descriptions

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Oral Sex and Young Teens: The New 3rd Base?
This workshop is designed to provide health educators, counselors, nurses and youth-serving professionals with the opportunity to clarify their values and strategize ways to tackle this complex issue.

When Sex Is the Subject
This workshop for 3rd-and 4th-grade teachers provides strategies for teaching about family life education with young children, techniques for answering questions typically asked by children and information on normal childhood sexual development.

What about the Boys?
This training will provide the most up-to-date information available about how boys learn and what educators can do to be sure to reach all students and workshop participants.

Healthy Relationships
Through this workshop, educators will learn to address the importance of peer relationships to teens and equip them with the skills needed to recognize those that reflect unhealthy and healthy characteristics.

Teaching about Sexual Orientation and Homophobia
This workshop is for educators and other youth-serving professionals who are interested in learning how to generate a safe environment around sexual orientation and gender identity/expression issues.

Sexuality and the Internet
In this training, we will learn about teens' current Internet habits, about networking sites like MySpace, Xanga, and Facebook, and about how to protect young people from dangers while still allowing them the freedom to connect with their friends.

Sexual Harassment
This workshop will help teachers and other professionals learn about the prevalence and impact of sexual harassment within the school community and how they can help to make their school a safe place for all students.

Mission Possible
This training will explore causes of low self-esteem in both boys and girls, address social factors (such as family, peer and the media), and identify strategies for helping adolescent boys and girls feel empowered and hopeful about themselves.

Sex Ed Basics
The purpose of this workshop is to provide participants with opportunities to learn about and practice basic teaching methodologies and techniques that work well for conducting sexuality education programs with young people.

Sexual Violence
This highly interactive workshop will help participants discover ways to discuss issues regarding sexual orientation, sexual harassment, sexual assault and domestic violence.

Body Work
This training will explore how body image is affected by various influences, including family, friends, the media and cultural influences.

Basic Counseling for Non-Professional Counselors
This workshop will be useful for newer and more seasoned staff who want a solid review of basic counseling skills and the opportunity to practice those skills in a safe, non-pressured context.

Sex Ed at Home
This highly Interactive and dynamic workshop will help parents understand the normal range of human development in youth and provide them with opportunities to respond answering difficult questions and preview resources.

That's So Gay
This workshop will provide participants with a general understanding of what it means to be transgender, and explain how gender identity is both unique from and related to sexual orientation.

Population Left Behind
This will be an interactive panel where 18 & 19 year old teens will share their experiences regarding sexual health education and their opinions on how programming efforts should transition as teens mature.