Length of Program

Youth Workshop: The program is a 3-hour interactive workshop for LGBTQ youth on sexual health and accessing healthcare.

Health Center Workshop: The program is a 3-hour workshop that can be delivered in two 90-minute, youth-led sessions for healthcare providers and clinic staff on best practices for providing care to LGBTQ young people. The two sessions can be implemented one after the other, or they can take place on different days.

Program Elements

The Youth Workshop comes with materials and resources needed for effective implementation. The program package, (purchased individually or as a bundle with the Health Center Workshop), includes a Youth Program Manual, Facilitator Curriculum, Peer Educator Training materials, and Workshop materials and resources, (including the IN·clued zine, mp4 workshop video, Q-cards ©, adaptations guidance, and more).

The Health Center Workshop comes with materials and resources needed for effective implementation. The program package, (purchased individually or as a bundle with the Youth Workshop), includes a Facilitator Curriculum, Peer Educator Training materials, and Workshop materials and resources, (including Q-cards ©, “We’re Clued In” stickers, Adaptations Guidance, and more).

All IN·clued Facilitators are highly encouraged to participate in the IN·clued Training of Facilitators (TOF). Virtual or in-person trainings are available. For more information on IN·clued trainings see IN·clued homepage.

Staffing Requirements

The Youth Workshop should be implemented by community-based educators or those who have sexual health education experience and sufficient sexual health knowledge and facilitation skills to answer questions and lead activities smoothly. Additionally, the young people who took part in the IN·clued community assessment voiced a strong desire to have LGBTQ facilitators, so we encourage those facilitating to have demonstrated connection to and experience with the LGBTQ community in which they’ll be facilitating the workshop. If peer educators are engaged as co-facilitators, they should be trained to facilitate activities within the curriculum, be clear on their roles, and have had the chance to practice more than once.

The Health Center Workshop is co-facilitated by adult facilitators and peer educators. We suggest adult facilitators be community-based educators working with a preexisting peer education program. Peer educator involvement is required for the Health Center Workshop with adult clinicians and health center staff. The peer educators delivering the health center curriculum should receive up to 20 hours of training by professional adult mentors on facilitating activities within the curriculum. They should be clear on their roles, and have had the chance to practice more than once.

Individuals implementing IN·clued should be knowledgeable about the content, be comfortable discussing the material and answering sensitive questions about sexual behaviors and/or LGBTQ sexual health care, and have experience using interactive teaching strategies such as roleplaying. Ideally, all educators implementing the program should be trained on its contents and teaching strategies. All facilitators are highly encouraged to participate in training through the IN·clued Training of Facilitators (TOF) process specifically for the workshop they will be facilitating. The process for each workshop (Youth and Health Center) consists of a 4-hour virtual or a 1-day, in-person training.