Training Resources
Comprehensive Sexual Health Education (CSHE) Training Catalog
Our current training offerings are listed below. These trainings are available free of charge for our WA PREP Partners. Find out more about being a WA PREP partner here. Some of these trainings are offered to educators throughout the year through OSPI. Check the OPSI training schedule here.
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Upcoming Public Trainings
Affirmative Consent & Bystander Intervention
Washington State’s sexual health education legislation requires that affirmative consent and bystander intervention be taught as part of comprehensive sexual health education. In this training, we define affirmative consent and bystander training, share ways to model affirmative consent and bystander intervention in the classroom, and explore multiple activities for classroom instruction…
Beyond the Basics of Consent
This training is geared toward educators who have already received some training and education on affirmative consent and want to deepen their understanding. This training is designed to increase educators’ comfort in navigating the more complicated aspects of consent conversations with young people. The format of this training will be a presentation strengthening definitions and vocabulary with time for group…
Core Skills for Teaching CSHE
Through a thoughtful blend of self-paced eLearning modules and live instructor led sessions aligned with the Professional Learning Standards for Sex Education, participants learn foundational skills and knowledge necessary to teach comprehensive sexual health education effectively. The training includes a focus on practical skills for classroom implementation through small group discussion and activities…
Core Skills Refresher for Teaching CSHE
Participants learn foundational skills and knowledge necessary to effectively teach comprehensive sexual health education. The training includes small group discussions and practice of the skills learned in order to implement them in the classroom. This course is geared towards teachers who have been through Core Skills in previous years and can be tailored to meet the specific needs of participants.
CSHE and Neuro Diversity
This training is intended to build upon the prior learning around implications for Disability Justice and CSHE, with a particular focus on the neurodiversity movement and supporting neurodivergent students, including those with Autism, intellectual, and developmental disabilities. Participants will learn the history of the neurodiversity movement, implications for language, and particular intersections for consideration in CSHE…
CSHE Grounded in Disability Justice
This training is designed to provide a working application for the principles of Disability Justice and considerations for students with disabilities in the CSHE context. Participants will develop an understanding of systems of inequity using the 4 Is framework and investigate our individual experiences of ableism and other intersectional identities impacted by oppression…
Human Trafficking Education
As anti-trafficking discourse continues to escalate in both news and social media outlets, many educators struggle to balance the narrative between sensationalized statistics and the requirement of many states to teach trafficking prevention during sexual health. This training will highlight history to sensitively destabilize some of the moral panic aspects of the anti-trafficking conversation while taking a nuanced…
Inclusive Puberty Education
Historically, puberty education has been taught by separating students into different classrooms based on perceived gender. However, teaching all students about puberty at the same time is now considered a best practice in creating more inclusive and impactful sexual health education. In this training, we discuss the positive impacts of gender inclusive puberty education, strategies for climate setting in the classroom…
Social Media & Sexually Explicit Materials
This is an interactive, practice-based training focused on strategies for classroom discussion of social media, pornography, and sexting with a focus on harm reduction. We examine the importance of critically analyzing these topics with students and understanding the interconnectedness of these topics with all aspects of CSHE. This training is designed to increase your comfort level…
Teaching Gender & Sexual Diversity
Many CSHE curricula now include lessons on gender and sexual orientation, which are important topics that require understanding and sensitivity on the part of the instructor. This training introduces foundational concepts and terminology about gender and sexuality, with the goal of increasing participant confidence in teaching on the subject matter. Topics include the dimensions of gender…
Trauma-Informed CSHE
This interactive training provides an overview of trauma, including definitions, common responses to trauma, and tools to navigate student’s trauma responses in the classroom. Attendees are given practical tools for creating CSHE instruction that is trauma-informed to support a safe and effective learning environment. Finally, this training explores the importance of recognizing secondary trauma for instructors and identifying…