Training for Adults by Adults
Training for Adults by Adults
ICAH’s Training Department offers a variety of professional development opportunities related to our policy issue areas: Sexual Health Care Access, Sexual Health Education and Support for Young Parents. The content of our training is in accordance with our mission, vision, and youth development philosophy. ICAH brings national trends and current research and offers continued technical assistance. ICAH can also create a tailored professional development package to meet your organizational needs. Our trainings can be conducted in any Illinois location for a service fee.
Contact Joy Messinger, MPH, MSW, CHES, Manager of Sexual Health Education, for more information at joy@icah.org or at 312-427-4460 x239.
ICAH provides professional development trainings to educators and youth service providers throughout Illinois. These sessions provide information on how to establish and implement a responsible sexual health education program in your school district.
Specializing in technical assistance on adolescent health issues, the ICAH training department sends trainers directly to school districts to instruct interested educators. Through these sessions, ICAH aims to improve best practices, skills, and implementation of sexual health education. Our cadre of professionals specializes in sexual health education, counseling, and direct service.
Following are the training sessions led by adults currently available for professionals and caregivers:
- Health Program Planning
- Illinois Adolescent Health & The Law
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Health Trends
- HIV Prevention Training for Illinois Teachers
- Sexual Health Education that Works
- Skill Building for Sexual Health Education Delivery
- Helping Caregivers Understand Their Adolescents
- Healthy Adolescent Relationships
- Additional ICAH Trainings
Health Program Planning
ICAH will facilitate a planning process with key stakeholders identified by the school administrators within its school district. A logic model will be created with input from key community partners, school administrators and teachers, parents, students and other collaborators.
As a result of this meeting, participants will be able to:
- Develop a plan for implementation of sexual health education in their school district.
- Build district support to implement a sexual health education plan.
- Commit to continue efforts to effectively implement sexual health education.
- Recognize research-based curricula resources that positively impact the determined health goals to be addressed within the health program plan.
Illinois Adolescent Health & The Law
This five-hour workshop will help participants improve their understanding of laws that address adolescent consent and confidentiality. The training also discusses techniques for creating a safe environment for teens seeking healthcare services.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Implement strategies for establishing youth friendly healthcare approaches.
- Develop recommendations for maintaining confidentiality.
- Demonstrate an understanding of Illinois consent and confidentiality laws.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Health Trends
This 90-minute workshop offers a basic overview and offers interactive approaches to creating safe spaces for LGBTQ youth.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify areas and approaches to increase safety among LGBTQ youth.
- Learn about the current sexual health trends of LGBTQ youth.
- Identify components for creating a safe space for LGBTQ youth.
HIV Prevention Training for Illinois Teachers
In this workshop, ICAH will share the importance of having and maintaining updated information related to HIV and STD transmission and prevention. Teachers will be given resources to share with their students and they will choose which activities to use within their classrooms from a selection of curricula. Participants will receive one copy of the curriculum of their choice free of charge.
As a result of this training participants will:
- Develop a working knowledge of HIV, AIDS, and STD information and prevention techniques.
- Instruct students on the benefits of correct and consistent condom use and application.
- Utilize the resources of the Adolescent Sexual Health Toolkit.
- Understand HIV Instruction School Code Mandate.
- Introduce HIV prevention lessons from various curricula.
Sexual Health Education that Works
This three-hour workshop offers an outline of science-based approaches and standards for sexual health education. The training offers guidance on why sexual health education is important, clarifies sex education state requirements, recognizes effective programs and methods, and reviews components recommended by medical and public health experts.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify key components of research-based sexual health education programs.
- Describe Illinois sex education laws and regulation components related to HIV, STI and pregnancy prevention.
Skill Building for Sexual Health Education Delivery
This workshop is a two- or three-day skill-building session. Teachers participate in learning strategies for planning and implementing a sexual health education program for their students. Participants have the opportunity to practice real-life scenarios teaching the content necessary to prevent HIV and pregnancy.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify research-based components of sexual health education that prevent HIV, other STDs, and pregnancy.
- Model appropriate teaching strategies for sexual health education (or Effectively facilitate correct condom use procedures).
- Increase their personal level of comfort in providing sexual health education.
- Establish and maintain a safe classroom environment.
- Develop a personal plan of action to implement sexual health education, building upon supports and overcoming barriers.
Helping Caregivers Understand Their Adolescents
This 90-minute workshop describes how to help caregivers better understand adolescent development.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Utilize techniques and strategies to communicate effectively with young people.
- Recognize the stages of youth sexual development.
Healthy Adolescent Relationships
This 90-minute workshop focuses on how to work with teens to describe/recognize what healthy relationships look like. Information is also included on teen dating violence and dealing with teens dating older partners.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors.
- Signal approachability for teens to discuss relationship issues.
- Implement strategies for integrating information into current work.
- Reproductive Justice 101
- Reproductive Justice and Youth of Color
- Sexuality: Talking to Your Pre-Teens and Adolescents
- Cyberbullying: Keeping Your Child Safe
- Current Adolescent Sexual Trends
- Leveraging Community Support
- Educate, Advocate, Collaborate: Approaches to Grassroots Organizing
- Organizing for School Board Policy Change
- Using Social Media for Advocacy
- Effective Youth and Adult Partnerships
Contact Joy Messinger, MPH, MSW, CHES, Manager of Sexual Health Education, for more information at joy@icah.org or at 312-427-4460 x239.
