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Register for a PPSP Professional Development Course
In addition to the following open enrollment courses, PPSP can customize sexuality
education professional development courses in both the Youth Serving Professionals
Program and Sexuality Program for the Deaf to meet your needs. For more information,
please contact PPSP
Education & Professional Development Department at 215-351-5580 or
email education@ppsp.org.
Training
for Youth Serving Professionals
- All workshops are from 9:30-3:30 at our Center City location and
include Continental breakfast and lunch.
- In addition to reasonable fees, we offer discounts for multiple services,
group rates and limited scholarships for open-enrollment participants.
- Act 48 and PQAS credits are available for all courses in this program.
Please click on the course name to register for the class.
Description |
Sexuality & Preadolescents:
Facilitating, Responding, Teaching
February 18 & 19, 2008
1 or 2 participants $195 each; 3 or more $150 each
This training will help you facilitate sexuality education programs
and activities with youth ages 9-12, communicate better with young people
and answer their questions about sexuality. All participants will receive
a copy of PPSP’s Steps Toward Adolescence curriculum. |
Sexuality & Teens: Facilitating,
Responding, Teaching
March 17 & 18, 2008
1 or 2 participants $195 each; 3 or more $150 each
This training will help you facilitate sexuality education programs
and activities with youth ages 13-18, communicate better with adolescents
and respond to their questions about sexuality. All participants will
receive a copy of PPSP’s Teen Times curriculum. |
Sexuality & Young Children:
Positive Messages for a Health Future
April 24, 2008
1 or 2 participants $95 each; 3 or more $75 each
This training will help you understand the stages of normal sexual development;
use teachable moments to give age-appropriate, healthy messages about
sexuality to children ages 0-8; examine your values around sexuality
and the implications of those values in working with young children;
and explore strategies for dealing with difficult sexuality-related issues. |
Sexuality & Youth in Residential
Settings
May 15, 2008
1 or 2 participants $95 each; 3 or more $75 each
This training will help you understand the stages of sexual development
throughout childhood and adolescence, as well as issues of particular
concern for youth living in residential settings. Participants will explore
strategies for answering tough questions, handling sexuality-related
issues, and navigating relationships with both the youth they work with
and their parents/caregivers. |
Sexuality
Program for the Deaf
Sign Language proficiency is required for all of the following
courses.
- All workshops are from 9:00 - 3:00 at our Center City location
and include continental breakfast and lunch.
- In addition to reasonable fees, we offer discounts for multiple services,
group rates and limited scholarships for open-enrollment participants.
- Act 48 credits are available for Deaf Teen Times, STEPS, and Sexuality
101 courses.
- RID CEUs are available for interpreter courses in this program.
- Full participation is required to get certificate of completion and credits.
Description |
Sexuality 101: Examining
Comfort and Knowledge
February 25, 2008
1 or 2 participants $95 each; 3 or more $75 each
This workshop is for professionals who work with the Deaf and hard
of hearing communities. It will cover defining sexuality, sexual
development, comfort with sexuality, dealing with sensitive issues,
and answering tough questions. It is an interactive workshop that will
provide participants with up-to-date facts. |
STEPS for the Deaf: Facilitating,
Responding, Teaching
March 31 & April 1, 2008
1 or 2 participants $195 each; 3 or more $150 each
This workshop will help educators working with the Deaf and hard of
hearing to increase knowledge, comfort and skill with implementing
sexuality education with youth ages 9-13. All participants will
receive a copy of PPSP’s Steps for the Deaf curriculum. |
Contraceptive Update for Interpreters
of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
April 26, 2008
1 or 2 participants $95 each; 3 or more $75 each
Do you know about Essure, the IUS, and Fem Cap? If not, come and
join us! This workshop will help Deaf and hearing interpreters increase
knowledge, comfort and skill with interpreting information about contraceptive/birth
control methods. |
Sexuality and Your Consumer:
Providing Competent Care
May 31, 2008
1 or 2 participants $95 each; 3 or more $75 each
This workshop is for professionals who provide services to deaf and
hard of hearing adults with additional disabilities. This training
will give you the opportunity to get up-to-date facts on sexuality-related
information; identify sensitive situations and use an intervention
model to help manage them; explore boundaries with sexuality and how
to set appropriate limits with consumers; practice answering questions
and managing sexuality-related comments consumers may make; and discuss
and display resources for communicating messages and for working with
consumers. |
STD Update for Interpreters
of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
June 28, 2008
1 or 2 participants $95 each; 3 or more $75 each
Do you know what LGV, Molluscum and Chancroid are? What about the
latest on Human Papilloma Virus? This workshop will help Deaf and
hearing interpreters increase knowledge, comfort and skill with interpreting
about sexually transmitted diseases. |
Signing for Sexuality for Interpreters
of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
August 22 & 23, 2008
1 or 2 participants $175 each; 3 or more $135 each
Do you know what skin hunger, attraction template, and the sexual
response cycle are? Do you know the signs for the genitals, transgender,
sexual assault (and more!)? This workshop will provide Deaf and hearing
interpreters the opportunity to increase knowledge of sexuality signs,
explore comfort with interpreting sexuality situations and apply learning
to skill development. In addition, time will also be devoted
to discussing how to interpreter for domestic violence and sexual abuse
related situations. It’s an interactive workshop where interpreters
can get a lot of information in a safe way. |
Deaf Teen Times: Facilitating,
Responding, Teaching
September 22-23, 2008
1 or 2 participants $195 each; 3 or more $150 each
This workshop will help educators working with the Deaf and hard of
hearing to increase knowledge, comfort and skill with implementing
sexuality education into the high school classroom. All participants
will receive a copy of PPSP’s Deaf Teen Times curriculum. |
For more information on the Youth Serving Professionals or Sexuality Program
for the Deaf offerings, please contact the PPSP
Education & Professional Development Department at 215-351-5580 or
email education@ppsp.org
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