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- Beyond Barbie: working with young women
- Building resilience in sexual health
- Chance, choice and consequences
- Condom card (C-card) training
- Confidentiality, sex, law and young people
- Contraception, STIs and young people
- Core competencies in sexual health
- Delivering SRE with confidence
- Domestic violence and relationship abuse
- Fantasy vs reality: impact and influence of pornography
- Moving the goalposts: working with young men
- Non-consensual sexual activity, young people and teenage pregnancy
- Pleasure principle
- Pride and prejudice: LGB and T young people
- Sexual exploitation: safeguarding CYP
- Sexual health starts here
- Talking about sexual health with looked-after young people
- Talking to young people about sex and relationships
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Training courses for professionals working with young people
Alcohol use, sexual activity and young people
This one-day course aims to enhance your understanding of key issues and the links between sexual activity and alcohol use, and to increase confidence in addressing these issues with young people.
Beyond Barbie: working with young women
This two-day course provides participants with the opportunity to explore specific issues that affect sexual health with young women in a variety of settings.
Building resilience in sexual health with young people
A one-day course for anyone working with young people but particularly those in targeted youth support, pupil referral units or those working with looked-after young people.
Chance, choice and consequences
This one-day on request training course explores the reasons why people engage in risk-taking behaviour and looks at how this information can improve participants’ practice.
Condom card (C-card) training
This one-day on request training course aims to raise awareness of condom distribution (C-card) schemes and how condoms can be used effectively to promote sexual health.
Confidentiality, sex, the law and young people
A one-day course which aims to clarify and explore the law relating to sex and young people especially the Sexual Offences Act 2003, and the context in which the law applies.
Contraception, sexually transmitted infections and young people
This one-day training course provides a brief overview of information about contraception and sexually transmitted infections in relation to young people.
Core competencies in sexual health for youth workers
Working with the National Youth Agency, FPA has developed a set of core competencies covering the essential skills, information and values needed to run safe, informed, and practical sex and relationships work (SRW) sessions with young people. University accredited.
Delivering sex and relationships education with confidence
A five-day course for anyone working with young people who wants to learn more about running group work sessions. Participants must have completed the FPA course Sexual health starts here or be able to show evidence of the equivalent. University accredited.
New! Domestic violence, relationship abuse and young people
A one-day course to increase your awareness, knowledge, confidence and skills in working with young people who are experiencing domestic violence or relationship abuse.
Fantasy vs reality: the impact and influence of pornography on young people
This one-day course covers the availability of pornography and the law as it relates to pornography, how the media can impact on young people’s attitudes, expectations, self image and sexual development and how professionals can proactively facilitate discussion in this challenging area of work.
Moving the goalposts: working with young men
A two-day course enabling participants to have the knowledge and confidence to engage young men in sexual health work.
Non-consensual sexual activity, young people and teenage pregnancy
A one-day course for anyone working with young people in sexual health to help equip them to support young people around decision making and consent.
The pleasure principle
One-day training course exploring how supporting young people to have positive and enjoyable sexual relationships can fit into conversations about risk, and how to enable young people to feel more engaged with sexual health messages.
Pride and prejudice: working with LGB and T young people
A two-day course to help participants develop confidence, learn useful strategies and skills, and promote effective practice and interventions in positive work with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans young people.
Sexual exploitation: safeguarding children and young people
One-day course that increases awareness about safeguarding children and young people from all forms of sexual exploitation including through the internet, pornography and trafficking.
Sexual health starts here
A four-day course providing a basic introduction to sexual health work with young people, providing sexual health information, practising basic skills, and exploring values and attitudes. University accredited.
Talking about sexual health, relationships and rights with looked-after children and young people
A one-day course for anyone who works with and/or cares for children and young people in care. It's an opportunity to reflect on practical ways of working with children and young people to address their rights, relationship needs and sexual health questions.
Talking to young people about sex and relationships
This one-day training course helps to build the confidence of staff who talk to young people about sexual health, sexuality and sex and relationships.
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