HIV 101 - This workshop provides an overview of HIV transmission and prevention. We will review and dispelled common myths about HIV, discuss prevention strategies such as PEP and PrEP, and provide information on HIV testing. The interactive portion of this workshop includes an activity where students use the metaphor of a red light, yellow light, and green light to determine the level of risk associated with an sexual behavior.

This workshop provides an overview of the most common STI’s, how they are transmitted, and how they can be prevented and treated. The workshop further delves into the differences between the different pathogens that cause STIs. Most importantly this workshop deliberately de stigmatizes STIs, explaining that getting an STI is not a moral failing and that having one does not make someone “dirty.” The interactive portion if this workshop is a game illustrating how easily STIs are spread.

This workshop provides a comprehensive overview of current birth control methods, as well as information on how youth can protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy and STIs. The difference in effectiveness between different types of birth control is discussed. The difference between hormonal and non-hormonal birth control id also articulated. Facilitators bring in examples of all the different birth control methods discussed. The interactive portion of this workshop is an activity where students are given photos of different types of contraceptives and asked to work together to order them according to effectiveness.

This workshop aim to teach young people about what it means to be in a healthy relationship. It goes over what constitutes our relationship and prompts young people to identify different relationships in their lives. It further asks what makes a relationship feel good or equal between two people. It introduces the idea of boundaries and walks students through what it means to have a boundary themselves and respect others boundaries. A large goal of this workshop is to create space for young people to discuss what it means to feel good in a relationship in the hopes that this space will allow them to avoid potentially harmful relationships in their life.

This workshop is aimed at teaching young people how to properly identify and give consent. Facilitators utilize role play and performance to help students understand that there is nuance in giving and receiving consent, more than just a simple yes or no. Facilitators also utilize an acronym, FRIES, to provide a snappy and memorable for students to remember the key aspects of consent (freely given, reversible, informed, enthusiastic, specific).

• provides participants with an overview of the program

• increases particpants’ ability to set goals for the future

• increases particpants’ confidence about making choices that are best for the future, particularly in regards to their sexual health

• provides information on HIV/AIDS

• provides information on HIV risk-associated behavior

• trains students on how to identify behaviors that are risky for HIV transmission and contraction

• increase awareness of HIV is contracted and transmitted

• confronts stereotypes about who can become infected with HIV

• confronts stigma associated with being HIV positive

• addresses false beliefs that can foster risky-behaviors

• introduces students’ to a problem-solving method to help think through sexual choices

• reviews and reinforces information learned thus far

This workshop is tailored toward our younger demographic of participants, and aims to teach tolerance, anti-bigotry and bystander intervention. This workshop begins with an interactive activity that makes students identify their similarities with each other. This is followed by a conversation about compassion for people different than us. Students are provided with age appropriate role plays about when someone is being racist, fatphobic, and transphobic and asked to figure out how to stand up for what is right.

This workshop is tailored towards our younger demographic of participants, mainly children who haven’t yet started or are currently going through puberty. Facilitators ask students to brainstorm the different ways that puberty affects young people, both physically and emotionally. After a brainstorm, the participants focus on the emotional parts of puberty, and facilitators take care to link the new romantic and sexual feelings that emerge during puberty to the need for sex ed! This is a particularly critical workshop for middle schoolers because it gives them a chance to talk about the fears and excitements that they feel about their changing bodies and lives.

This workshop provides a comprehensive but developmentally appropriate review of reproductive anatomy. Facilitators go through what is biologically necessary for pregnancy to happen. The workshop provides an overview of the anatomy of the penis, and how sperm goes from creation to exiting the body. The workshop then provides an overview of the anatomy of the vulva, and explains the connection between ovulation and menstruation. The workshop ends with a discussion of what it needs to be intersex and an explanation of how “male” and "female" anatomy are actually comprised of the same components.

Talking with youth about sex can be challenging. The Let’s Talk about Sex workshop offers strategies for youth workers on making these conversations easier. During this workshop we will cover “door openers” and “door slammers” for talking with teens, basic principles of Motivational Interviewing, tips for starting the conversation and how to make referrals for sexual health services. Project SAFE is happy to come to your space and can tailor the workshop to the needs of your organization

In this workshop, teens will learn what sexual health services are available to them, how to make an appointment, and the importance of getting tested. The workshop covers teen’s right to confidential reproductive health services in New York State and information about the Project SAFE Teen Health Clinics. 

Item descriptionThis workshop aims help young people understand what gender and sexuality is while also helping them explore their relationship to their own gender, and their own sexuality. It is structured through the metaphor of the Genderbread Person, which is a diagram that has different markers on its body for Sex, Gender Identity, Gender Identity, and Sexuality. This workshop is particularly interactive, as it asks young people to fill out their own answers for their Sex, Gender Identity, Gender Identity, and Sexuality as facilitators review what they are. Students do this by drawing their own Genderbread Person. This workshop also takes care to the stigmatize, potentially taboo subjects for young people, including issues of transphobia and homophobia.

This workshop provides a comprehensive overview of reproductive anatomy. Facilitators go through what is biologically necessary for pregnancy to happen. The workshop provides an overview of the anatomy of the penis, and how sperm goes from creation to exiting the body. The workshop then provides an overview of the anatomy of the vulva, and explains the connection between ovulation and menstruation. The workshop ends with a discussion of what it needs to be intersex and an explanation of how “male” and "female" anatomy are actually comprised of the same components.

This workshop is aimed at teaching young people how to take care of themselves. Facilitators lead a brainstorm about what common stressors are and how participants usually address them. Facilitators subsequently lead a conversation about what self-care is, and what participants usually do for self-care already. There is then an interactive activity where students create a resource map for themselves, which is essentially a flowchart of actions they can do to care for themselves when they are feeling different negative emotions. Depending on the setting and time constraints, this workshop can also include another interactive activity that helps students identify which of their five senses is most comforting when they are not feeling their best. With older students, facilitators take care to emphasize that self-care for BIPOC is essential and radical in our current climate.

• increases participants’ knowledge of sexually transmitted infections/diseases

• introduces information on how STIs are transmitted and contracted

• clarifies misconceptions, negative beliefs, and stigma around STI transmission and contraction and condom use

• provides information on how pregnancy occurs and is a result of sex

• introduces various types of contraceptives methods

• increase students’ understandings of barriers to condom use

• provide students’ with strategies to reduce barriers to condom usage

• addresses stigma around condom useage

• introduces participant negotiation skills so as to negotiate condom use with a potential partner

• enhance participant ability to resist situations that place them at risk for HIV/STD infection and pregnancy

This workshop aim to teach young people about what it means to be in a healthy relationship. It goes over what constitutes our relationship and prompts young people to identify different relationships in their lives. It further asks what makes a relationship feel good or equal between two people. It introduces the idea of boundaries and walks students through what it means to have a boundary themselves and respect others boundaries. A large goal of this workshop is to create space for young people to discuss what it means to feel good in a relationship in the hopes that this space will allow them to avoid potentially harmful relationships in their life.

• provides participants with an overview of the program

• increases particpants’ ability to set goals for the future

• increases particpants’ confidence about making choices that are best for the future, particularly in regards to their sexual health

• reviews why some young people choose to have sex

• increases participants’ knowledge about changes associated with puberty

• increases awareness of why some people pressure others to have sex

• introduces concept of abstinence

• provides information on HIV/AIDS

• provides information on HIV risk-associated behavior

• trains students on how to identify behaviors that are risky for HIV transmission and contraction

• introduces the idea of self-esteem

• introduces linkages between peer pressure and self-esteem as sometimes related to risky sexual behaviors

• has students practice giving advice to each other about HIV-risk associated behaviors