Strategies to Talk with System-Involved Youth About Dating, Boundaries and Sex
Tue, Oct 01
|Online Event
Nola Kesia Brantley & T Ortiz
Time & Location
Oct 01, 2024, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM PDT
Online Event
About the Event
Nola Kesia Brantley & T Ortiz
Training Description
It’s important social service providers, foster parents, guardians, and natural supports have ongoing dialogue with system-involved youth about dating, boundaries, and sex. Without these conversations, system-involved youth are left to navigate these topics on their own or with their peers. This training will equip you to have these crucial conversations which can improve outcomes for system involved youth.
Learning Objectives
· Participants will be able to distinguish between healthy boundaries and unhealthy boundaries with system-involved youth.
· Participants will be able to identify 4 strategies for carrying-out conversations with system-involved youth about dating, sex and boundaries.
· Participants will be able to identify 3 different types of boundaries.
Agenda
10:00-10:15am Trainer and Topic Introductions
10:15-10:30am Exploring our relationship with boundaries, dating and sex
10:30-10:45am Talking to youth about boundaries
10:45-11:00am Types of Boundaries: Time
11:00-11:15am Types of Boundaries: Physical
11:15-11:30am Types of Boundaries: Intellectual
11:30-11:45am Types of Boundaries: Sexual
11:45am-12:00pm Types of Boundaries: Emotional
12:00-12:30pm Lunch Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)
12:30-12:45pm Types of Boundaries: Material
12:45-1:00pm Talking to youth about dating
1:00-1:15pm Teen Dating Violence
1:15-1:30pm Teen sexual activity
1:30-1:45pm Delayed sexual activity
1:45-2:00pm Risk factors for early sexual initiation
2:00-2:15pm Protective factors for early sexual initiation
2:15-2:30pm Talking to teens about waiting to have sex until ready
2:30-2:45pm Talking with youth about sex
2:45-3:00pm 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!
T Ortiz, A.K.A. Withelma “T” Ortiz Walker Pettigrew, is an international Anti-Trafficking Activist and Foster Youth Advocate. Beginning her work in
Oakland as an Inaugural WestCoast Children's Clinic Y.A.P. advocate and a co-collaborator and leader during the inception of M.I.S.S.S.E.Y, advocating for
Measure Y funding, and keynoting Alameda County's first HEAT conference. T is a leading force in advocating for the civil and social rights of all people, with
specialized expertise in highlighting the intersectionality between the child welfare system and domestic child sex trafficking. Her Federal work was vital in
the passing of The Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act and The JVTA (Justice For Victims of Trafficking Act). In 2021, she was Honored
by NCMEC (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) as a “Hero Award” Recipient. In 2020, she was awarded “The Last Girl Award'' from Apne Aap
International (India). In 2014, she was named one of TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the world”, a TIME Magazine “30 under 30” in 2013, and a
GLAMOUR Magazine “Woman of the Year '' in 2011. Her work has influenced many organizations including The United Nations, Google, The U.S. Congress,
The White House, The American Bar Association, The Aspen Institute, and The Johns Hopkins Institution. Notably, she has led a TEDx talk on Exploring
Sexuality after Trauma. She has successfully petitioned the Associated Press to utilize practices conscious of survivor trauma and circumstance with her
#NoSuchThingAsAChildProstitute Campaign. T is a Magna Cum Laude graduate from Morgan State University holding a degree in Strategic Communications.
This course meets the qualifications for (4.5) 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.