Oak Hill’s Center for Relationship & Sexuality Education (CRSE) offers online opportunities for professional development and increased awareness of widespread sexual abuse and other related issues experienced by the IDD community, as well as promotion of healthy relationships. These learning seminars can expand the meaningful implementation of our curriculum and workbooks for disability professionals, clinicians, management, and direct care staff.
Webinars are presented in multiple formats, either with a live presenter or through a pre-recorded option. Both offer exceptional benefits to attendees and the way you choose to interact with this content is entirely up to the unique needs of your group. If you like what you see but still require some personalization, we are happy to try to accommodate.
*Our focus is preventive education and advocacy. We do not have intervention services at this time.*
If you are looking for a Live, Virtual Seminar with a Sexual Health Educator & personalized time for Q&A, please inquire for a quote and availability.
Webinar Topics Include:
Communication and Education: Tools for Ending the Sexual Assault Epidemic for People with I/DD
Join CRSE professionals to discuss the barriers and unique safety risks that individuals with I/DD and other disabilities face. Participants will learn strategies for prevention, response, and reporting, as well as ways to build a culture of consent that supports safe, healthy, fulfilling relationships of all kinds. Resources, including assistive technology suggestions, will be shared to offer participants next steps for collectively breaking down these barriers.
Benefits of this Topic:
- Guided professional development
- Ideal for special educators, clinicians, health instructors, behavioral strategists, and direct support staff
- Should be used as a prerequisite to implementation of CRSE’s Positive Choices curriculum
- Understand statistics about prevalence of abuse
- Identify reasons why abuse happens
- Build critical judgment skills with the students you support
- Learn ways to create a culture of consent in individual settings
Length: 90 minutes; Pre-recorded webinar available for download; Watch at your own pace
Cost: $50
Click here to purchase Communication and Education Tools
Implementing Positive Choices Curriculum: Practical Strategies for Educators
Positive Choices is an innovative program and curriculum designed to increase judgment about healthy relationships, sexuality, and safe boundaries for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This training introduces the audience to best practices for the implementation of Positive Choices curriculum and provides opportunity for rehearsal of teaching strategies. This is the ultimate “how to get started teaching this important content” guide.
It is important to have access to our Positive Choices Curriculum before watching this webinar (purchase here).
Benefits of this Topic:
- A great way to provide professional development and allow your educators to feel confident in the content they are utilizing; and navigate best practice
- Delves in-depth into strategies for implementation of CRSE learning materials
- Ideal for special educators, clinicians, health instructors, behavioral strategists, and direct support staff using CRSE’s Positive Choices curriculum
- Understand statistics about prevalence of abuse
- Identify reasons why abuse happens
- Build critical judgment skills with the students you support
- Identify strategies for teaching sexual health education materials
- Discover best teaching practices that will enhance learning about healthy relationships and sexuality for students with specialized learning needs
- Apply the concepts and strategies of Positive Choices to practice in your setting
Length: 90 minutes; Pre-recorded webinar available for download; Watch at your own pace
Cost: $50
Click here to purchase Implementing Positive Choices Curriculum
“This workshop educates those in attendance to take an honest look at the role we play in empowering our students to make positive choices.”
“Reaffirmed why this work is important and provided guidance on how to help this vulnerable population access information that could substantially impact their safety.”
Please take some time to explore our innovative resources and let us know if you are interested in CRSE’s educational materials and/or services, please contact us at CRSEinfo@oakhillct.org.