National Support Center Staff offer trainings on topics of sexual health, science-based approaches, and organizational development.  See below for the available trainings and how to schedule a training.

• Becoming Indispensible: Program Sustainability
  
• Beyond Tokenism and Good Intentions: Building Effective Youth-Adult Partnerships
  
• Boys and Young Men: Evaluated Programs
  
• Building Strong, Effective State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Organizations
• Condoms and Contraception Promotion: A Science Based-Approach to Pregnancy and HIV Prevention
  
• Developing and Delivering Powerful Presentations
  
• Engaging Parents: Building Support for Science-Based Programs
  
• Eureka! I think I’ve Got It!: Reading and Understanding the Research behind Science-Based Programs
  
• European Approaches to Adolescent Sexual Behavior
  
• Evaluated Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs to Reach Latino/Hispanic Youth
  
• Fundamentals of Board Development
• Fundraising Basics; Giveways to Grants
• Getting it Right, Getting it Done: Why Science Matters in Teen Pregnancy Prevention
  
• Organizational Capacity: What Does It Have to Do with Teen Pregnancy Prevention?
  
• Preventing Repeat Pregnancies Among Teens: What the Research Says
  
• Rights. Respect. Responsibility: A New Paradigm for Adolescent Sexual Health
  
• Rights. Respect. Responsibility: A Condom Normalization Campaign
• Rising to the Challenge of Promoting Science-Based Approaches: Foundation and Fundamentals
  
• Rising to the Challenge of Promoting Science-Based Approaches: Managing Controversy
  
• Science-Based Approaches to Teen Pregnancy Prevention
• Science Plus Values = Sexually Health Adolescents
  
• Sex Education: Myths and Facts
  
• Youth-Friendly Clinical Services for Adolescents: What the Research Says 
  

For more information on these trainings, please contact:

Ebony Ross
Advocates for Youth
2000 M St., NW, Suite 750
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-419-3420
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In addition to the training offered, staff of the National Support Center for State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Organizations is also available to facilitate meetings and organizational processes using Appreciative Inquiry. Appreciative Inquiry (AI)  is both a perspective and process for accomplishing any critical organizational task from staff development to strategic planning. As a perspective, AI focuses on assets, strengths, and the most positive moments of an organization rather than problems, challenges, and threats. As a process, AI utilizes a variety of techniques, including structured personal interviews, facilitated small and large group conversations, consensus building activities, creative humor, brainstorming, and other interactive, engaging strategies to identify what a group or individual most wants and needs to do more of to accomplish important goals and tasks.

In an Appreciative Inquiry process, attendees are asked to participate in a series of facilitated conversations and activities. The conversations are interesting, if not fascinating. The activities are not physical but creative. A group AI is typically 6 hours or less. In some circumstances they can take as little as 3 hours and in others they can take days (these are usually called AI Summits). The outcomes are determined both by the topic or focus of the inquiry and in the dynamic of the inquiry as it happens. In other words, the expected outcomes might be changed by the group in the process of the inquiry. However, typical outcomes are often essential working documents such as strategic goals, action plans, agreements, consensus statements, core principles and practices, strategic plans, vision and mission statements, values, branding strategies, marketing messages, and qualitative evaluations.

Read more about Appreciative Inquiry.

For more information, please contact:

Tom Klaus, Certified AI Facilitator
Advocates for Youth
2000 M St., NW, Suite 750
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-419-3420
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