Human Sexuality 101: The Fundamentals for Working With Children & Families

Human Sexuality 101: The Fundamentals for Working With Children and Families

2 hr session

Thursday, January 30, 2025 from 1-3pm EDT

Note

This course is offered in one segment via Zoom. You will receive Zoom log-in information in the registration confirmation, again with additional instructions a week before the training from the Institute for Human Service's training team (), and another reminder 24 hours before the session starts. You may want to add the email address to your contact list to ensure the email comes through. Please check in the spam folder in case you don’t receive the first email. Sometimes employers’ firewalls and filtering services block communication from unrecognizable email addresses. We advise you include an alternative email address to prevent this for happening.

About the Course

Do issues and questions about sexuality show up in your work, sometimes when you least expect it? Do you feel that you missed out on good sex education when you were in school or just need a good refresher and update? Are you trying to understand if it makes sense for grade school kids to choose their pronouns? Or do you work with sexually abused children and youth and wonder about the impact on their developmental journey? This 2-hour course explores the topics of sexual development, anatomy, and physiology, and places them in current social contexts, and will help prepare you to better support your clients as they pass through developmental stages and face challenges along the way. This live, virtual course is appropriate for social workers, counselors, psychologists, and other human services professionals working with children and families. The training will include didactic lecture, group discussion, and time for Q and A. The workshop is led by a sexeducator/social worker who has been working to promote sexual health and safety for decades! Dr. Rosenzweig will combine important factual material with exercises to help improve your comfort level. Participants will also receive resources they can use in their own practice.

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to:

*Describe components of sexual and reproductive anatomy and physiology, and how to incorporate this information into work with children and families.

* Describe the stages of psychosexual development and family development and apply them to problem solving with children and families.

*Integrate the concept of ‘sexual climate’ in a family or organization into their work and understand how it is critical to promoting healthy sexual development and risk reduction.

Learn more or download the course flyer at: https://www.ihs-trainet.com/human-sexuality-101

Continuing Education

This training is approved for 2 Social Work CE Credits. See additional information on each below.

The Institute for Human Services, provider #1802, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 03/25/2023 – 03/25/2026.

To earn CE credits, participants must attend the entire session in its entirety, remain on camera, complete an evaluation, and pay the CE fee at the time of registration.

ASWB ACE Social Work CE Credits are widely accepted throughout the USA and Canada. WV, NY, and NJ do have restrictions on ACE credits. Check to see if your state or province accepts the CE credits here.

The Institute for Human Services understands that circumstances arise that may prevent registrants from attending a pre-paid training. A training and continuing education credit (minus Eventbrite platform and any credit card fees) will be refunded if a registrant cancels their training attendance on the registration platform at least 7 days in advance of the training event. If the registrant does not cancel within 7 days of the continuing education session, no refund will be issued.

Questions? Email [email protected] or contact our office at 614-251-6000 Monday through Friday between 9 am and 5 pm EDT. If you need additional accessibility support please contact us in advance of the training to make necessary arrangements.

Reminder: This virtual workshop will take place from 1pm – 3:00 pm (EDT). Please make note of your time zone.

Trainer Bio

Janet F. Rosenzweig PhD, MS, MPA - Dr. Janet Rosenzweig earned certification as a sexeducator in 1977 and was recruited to work on one of the first child sexual abuse programs in the US in 1978. She served in high-level government positions in New Jersey, including founding the first Commission on Child Abuse in the state in 1986, as Executive Director of The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, as Vice-President for Research and Programs for Prevent Child Abuse America and wrote the book "The Sex-Wise Parent" based on experiences as a sex educator working in sexual abuse prevention. She serves on the Executive Committee of The National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, and as a founding member of The New York State Initiative to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse. She is a Lecturer at The University of Pennsylvania and has provided training across the US incorporating accurate information about human sexuality into work in child sexual abuse and promotes the ideal of parents as primary sexuality educators of their children as a critical protective factor in promoting sexual health and safety, a concept that includes prevention of child sexual abuse.

Event Venue

Online