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Trauma-Informed Sex Education
For educators who want to strengthen their trauma-informed teaching, this pathway builds the skills to create learning environments where every young person can feel safe, respected and ready to learn.
Why this pathway
In any group of young people, some carry experiences of trauma, and sex education can touch on them in ways that are hard to predict. This pathway helps you teach with that in mind. A self-paced course gives you the foundation: why trauma-informed environments matter and how to recognize behaviors that may stem from past trauma. Instructor-led training then lets you practice those techniques with a trainer and fellow educators. Finally, a set of trauma and healing resources and assessments helps you check your knowledge and skills and keep building them.
Goal
Deliver affirming, evidence-based instruction that reflects all students.
Who it is for
- Educators building trauma-informed practice
- Health and sex educators
- Community and youth-program educators
Time
About 12 hours of live training over five sessions, plus the self-paced course.
Step by step
The steps
Take them in this order. Each one builds on the one before.
Self-paced learning
Teaching from a Trauma-Informed Lens (self-paced course)
Learn why trauma-informed learning environments matter, how to convey safety, trustworthiness and transparency, and how to identify and support a participant who may be showing behaviors based on previous trauma.
Instructor-led learning
Facilitating from a Trauma-Informed Lens (live training, 5 sessions)
Build on the self-paced course over five live sessions, practicing how to create and sustain a trauma-informed learning environment and how to respond with empathy, with practice teaching and peer feedback.
Resource deep dive
Trauma and Healing Resources (free resource)
A collection of resources on trauma and healing that deepens your understanding and supports your work with young people.
Trauma-Informed Content Knowledge Assessment & Resource Lists (free resource)
Check what you know about trauma-informed sex education and use the resource lists to fill any gaps.
Trauma-Informed Skills Assessment & Resource Lists (free resource)
Reflect on your trauma-informed facilitation skills and use the resource lists to keep strengthening them.
Where it leads
Educators gain practical strategies and curriculum tools to create and sustain trauma-informed learning environments.
Enroll in this pathway
Enrolling in a whole pathway at once is on its way. Until then, you can take each course on its own from the course catalog, or ask us about enrolling yourself or a group.
Keep learning
Free fact sheets, guides and tools sit in the resource library. Every course and live training sits in the training library.