Grades 6-8

Learn about best practices for designing and implementing a teen-friendly clinic. Learn what you can put in your clinic and how your clinic staff can be welcoming to young people. 

Support your adolescent healthcare practice with TALK: Toolkit for Adolescent Care’s resources and training. TALK provides skills, scripts, and examples that can be put to immediate use, and can adapt to your team’s needs. Training is customizable and can range from a one-hour “Lunch and Learns” to a multi-week series of one-hour interactive sessions. format. A multi-session format builds participants’ Motivational Interviewing skills – and opportunities to apply them – using supportive one-page TALK tools. 

Review basic terms through a social justice lens, learn the impacts of related -isms on youth, and make use of evidence-based tools for supporting and advocating for LGBTQ+ youth.

Learn the basics of adolescent development, how social determinants of health can impact their ability to complete their developmental tasks, and how using this lens can build your capacity.

Learn legal contexts for consent (mandated reporting, minor’s consent), how consent culture can reduce sexual violence, and how to empower youth to assert their values and boundaries.

Learn how humans experience and express their sexuality through sensuality, intimacy, identity, behavior, reproduction, and sexualization, and connect the “circles” through individual attitudes, values, and beliefs.

Review the physical and emotional changes that occur in adolescence, practice responding to young peoples’ questions, and connect to supportive local and national resources.

Connections Matter is a training designed to engage community members in building caring connections to:

• Improve resiliency,
• Prevent childhood trauma, and
• Understand how our interactions with others can support those who have experienced trauma.

There are many options for sex education curricula; it can be overwhelming. Participants will discuss district wants and needs and various curriculum options to decide which curriculum is a good fit.

What is comprehensive sex education (CSE)? Join us to learn the components of CSE, why it’s important, and how it can benefit your students and your school. We will also discuss the process for getting approval from your school board and how GCAPP staff can support you.