Consultation Services

We offer a range of consultation services covering topics such as curriculum development and youth leadership advancement. Please contact info@icah.org for more information

performance-based Education

Our performance-based professional development builds your creative capacity and teaches you how to strengthen youth engagement through activities, skills, and techniques appropriate for any social justice youth program, health education setting, or classroom.

ICAH ADult Accomplices

ICAH offers an Adult Accomplice training series at our office. You can register for a single training or all ten! The ICAH Adult Accomplice Certificate is presented to participants who complete all ten Adult Accomplice trainings.

SEXUALITY EDUCATION THAT WORKS

• Introduce participants to ICAH, history of organization, departments, and projects

• Describe ICAH’s approach to sexuality education

• Explain and demonstrate youth engagement model and ICAH’s youth driven approach

• Discuss reproductive justice and assess examples of reproductive injustice

• Analyze the National Sexuality Education Standards (NSES)

• Summarize sexuality education policies/laws

SEXUAL IDENTITIES: CREATING SAFER SPACES

• Identify strategies for building safer spaces

• Review LGBTQQIA+ identity development statistics

• Define and discuss sexuality, attraction, sexual identity, gender, and gender identity 

• Recognize homophobia and heterosexism

• Describe social environment for LGBTQQIA+ youth 

• Describe and demonstrate how to be an accomplice

• Develop safer space strategies take back to participants’ own work and organization

SEXUAL HEALTH 101: ANATOMY AND PUBERTY

• Define and analyze components of sexuality

• Identify and analyze cissexism

• Discuss anatomy and functions 

• Review puberty and demonstrate ways to support young people going through puberty

• Recognize and practice passive, aggressive, and assertive communication styles

• Demonstrate skills around answering difficult questions and role-play
  

REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE INCLUDES RACIAL JUSTICE

• Experience FYI performance Forecast, about a dream young woman has that confronts her with the decision of whether or not to parent in a broken world

• Identify barriers to freedom and bodily autonomy in the context of race

• Define reproductive justice and intersectionality

• Describe how prisons are a reproductive justice issue

• Apply an intersectional lens to your own work

• Decode messaging

HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS

• Describe characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships, including reasons why some people stay in unhealthy relationships

• Discuss boundaries, practice giving consent, and review communication skills

• Describe Teen and LGBT Power & Control Wheels

• Formulate supportive messages for a young person in an unhealthy relationship

• Explore legal rights and parental involvement laws for young survivors

ACTIVATING THE CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF YOUR PROGRAM

• Analyze their creative strengths and weaknesses

• Identify the components and habits of creative practice

• Introduce 4 P’s of participatory theater

• Utilize games and stories as learning tools

• Apply creative practices to real-world scenarios and work

• Practice and reflect upon creative program design and implementation

SEXUAL RIGHTS: YOUTH IN ILLINOIS

• Discuss barriers to accessing healthcare and protective factors related to healthcare for young people

• Review sexual rights terms

• Discuss rights & confidentiality in healthcare for young people

• Describe the rights that young people have in Illinois

• Illustrate youth-friendly environments

• Practice informing a young person about their rights & address any barriers or challenges that may result
  

SEXUAL HEALTH 102: STIS AND SAFER SEX

• Employing safer sex methods and dialogue on how to encourage use of these methods

• Arrange sexual behaviors along spectrum of higher to lower risk

• Evaluating methods of protection

• Describe and compare hormonal and non-hormonal methods of protection

• Construct a continuum of effectiveness of methods of protection
  

CENTERING YOUTH VOICE AND PARTNERSHIP

• Understand best practices for ensuring youth comfort and accessibility

• Gain tools to implement youth-friendly program provision

• Define adultism and accompliceship to explore implications in their relationships with youth

• Rescript scenarios youth experience while struggling to access quality care in school, family and healthcare contexts to remove barriers

REDUCING SHAME: TRAUMA AWARENESS AND SEX-POSITIVITY

• Examine Harm Reduction as an approach to youth work

• Describe Sex- & Body-Positivity

• Develop Sex- & Body-Positive messages that address barriers caused by shame & stigma

• Examine Trauma-Awareness

• Assess your organization's readiness to implement a Trauma-Informed approach

• Discuss resiliency and create & share healing practices