BRWN-0100241 - Strategies to Mitigate the Impact of Bias on Sexual Health
Preferred registration deadline: Jan 30th
6 CEs
This workshop introduces participants to core concepts from the Sexuality Educator Anti-Racist Training (SEAT) framework to deepen understanding of how racism and bias shape sexual health outcomes. Through guided reflection, case examples, and applied practice, participants will examine how race-based harm occurs on individual, community, and systemic levels and identify their own emotional and behavioral trauma responses when such harm is caused. The session equips professionals with practical, trauma-responsive interventions and strategies to acknowledge, address, and proactively mitigate the impact of bias on the sexual health and intersecting identities of the communities they serve. Participants will leave with concrete tools to strengthen professional responsivity and support more equitable service experiences and outcomes.
This is an in-person workshop that will be held on Washington University’s Danforth Campus. The exact location and directions will be emailed to registered participants before the course date. This workshop meets the licensure requirement for 3 hours of continuing education in cultural competency/humility.
General Admission: $150*
*Eligible discounts can be applied during checkout.
Class size is limited to 30.
Course Outline
Content Level: Beginner
Target Audiences: Social workers, therapists, counselors, community health workers, sexuality educators, and/or any mental or behavioral health professional who may discuss sexuality with their service populations.
Agenda:
- Facilitator Introductions - 10 mins
- Setting The Stage, Agenda, Warm-up activities - 60 mins
- Confronting Sources of Fear & Internal Narratives - 60 mins
- Feedback Loops + Decision Tree - 30+45 mins - 80 mins
- Developing Anti-Racist Interventions, CPR Model, and Creating Interventions - 90 mins
- Imagining Liberatory Futures - 40 mins
- Closing, Q & A - 20 mins
*includes 2 small breaks and 1-hour lunch
Learner Outcomes
- Describe at least one example of how racism influences sexual health outcomes at the individual, community, and systemic levels.
- Identify participants' own automatic emotional and behavioral trauma responses that may arise when they cause race-based harm.
- Distinguish at least three trauma responsive behavioral interventions to use after committing racialized harm.
- Identify three strategies to acknowledge and proactively mitigate the impact of bias on a service population's sexual health and intersecting identities.
Course Completion Requirements:
The Brown School is an approved provider of Social Work CEs in Missouri and Illinois. To earn credit, attendees must arrive at the scheduled time, attend the entire course, and complete an online course evaluation. You may still qualify for partial Social Work Missouri and Illinois CEs if you miss part of the training. CE Certificates will be available online within 10 business days of course completion by visiting your learner profile at https://ce.wustl.edu/portal/logon.do?method=load&parentSite=brown. You will receive an email notification with specific instructions for accessing the online certificate when it is available.
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