Consent verses Coercion with System-Involved Youth

Nola Kesia Brantley

Training Description

Trauma can impact one’s sense of self-worth, experience of love, and skew one’s boundaries. So, it’s essential to have ongoing dialogue with system-involved youth about consent and coercion. This training will explore examples of how youth are coerced into commercial sexual exploitation and coerced into staying involved in it. We’ll look at ways to engage youth in dialogue about consent and why they deserve to have their boundaries respected. We’ll also talk about how to help youth respect other people’s boundaries.

Learning Objective

• Participants will be able to distinguish between consent and coercion.

• Participants will be able to identify at least 1 challenge system involved youth involved in the commercial sex industry have with setting boundaries.

• Participants will be able identify at least 3 strategies to talk with system involved youth about consent and coercion.

Agenda

10:00-10:15am Welcome and Introductions

10:15-10:30am Consent Over Ones Own Lifetime

10:30-10:45am What is Coercion?

10:45-11:00am What is Consent?

11:00-11:15am Consent verses Coercion

11:15-11:30am Consent Starts Early

11:30-11:45am Talking to Kids About Consent Ages 0-5

11:45am-12:15pm Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

12:15-12:30pm Talking to Kids About Consent Ages 6-12

12:30-12:45pm Talking to Kids About Consent Ages 13-18

12:45-1:00pm Victim Blaming

1:00-1:15pm Consent Verses Coercion Scenarions

1:15-1:30pm Discussions with Youth Role Plays

1:30-1:45pm Boundaries in Challenging Scenarios

1:45-2:00pm Questions & Answers, Closing

Meet Our Trainer

Nola Kesia Brantley, CEO & Founder of Nola Brantley Speaks has become nationally recognized as a powerful Survivor voice for the issue of child sex trafficking through her moving and information packed public speaking. Her hard work and perpetual vigilance has brought both focus and concrete resources to this chronically underserved and largely unrecognized population of victimized youth. Nola’s approach aims to be holistic!

This course meets the qualifications for (3.5) BBS CE hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.