Training for Professionals and Schools
We provide training on diverse range of sexual health topics for both professionals working in community services and school staff. We offer guidance on a range of prominent topics that aim to support staff working with children and young people.
This training is commissioned by Buckinghamshire Council and is free of charge to those working in schools and/or the community in Buckinghamshire. All courses are facilitated by Brook, a specialist sexual health service that is part of bSHaW, Buckinghamshire’s integrated sexual health and wellbeing service.
You will find a list of the training courses currently on offer below, as well as links to register for the training.
If you have any questions about anything to do with our training offer please contact bucks@brook.org.uk
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Sessions
- Come Correct C-Card Training for Professionals
- Consent Training
- Pornography and youth produced sexual imagery
- Create a safe learning environment
- Consent and Managing disclosures of sexual violence
- Healthy relationships and sexual health
- Inclusive RSE for Neurodivergent young people
- Managing difficult questions and sensitive issues in RSE
- Supporting and including LGBT+ young people
- Trans Inclusion Training
- Trans Inclusive Care: Trans Identities and Barriers to Access
Come Correct C-Card Training for Professionals
Overview of session
C-Card is the free condom distribution scheme available to young people across Buckinghamshire. This 2 hours training will set you up as a distributor of free condoms as well as someone young people can talk to about sexual health and relationships.
Course Objectives
After this training course participants will:
- Understand the C-Card scheme and how it operates.
- Gain skills and knowledge to be signed off as C-Card distributors
- Be able to demonstrate best practice condom use
- Gain an introductory level of knowledge in safer sex topics such as contraception and STIs
- Be able to explain the Fraser Guidelines, confidentiality and Sex and the Law.
Who should attend
This 2 hour training course is FREE to professionals working with young people in Buckinghamshire. Priority will be given to professionals working in these areas.
Consent Training
Overview of session
In this training we draw on Brook’s 50 years of experience working with young people. The training aims to equip professionals with the skills and knowledge to support young people around consent.
Course Objectives
The training will cover the following objectives:
- Give a definition of consent • Describe how consent can be communicated both verbally and physically (what consent sounds like, looks like and feels like)
- Explain the law around sexual consent
- Explain young people’s rights and responsibilities when it comes to sex and sexual health
- Describe the difference between types of relationships
- Explain the importance for young people to be able to have safe, equal, healthy relationships
- Describe healthy and unhealthy behaviours in relationships to young people
- Identify where young people can go for help and advice
Who should attend
This FREE training is for any professional who supports and provides services for young people in Buckinghamshire.
Course Schedule
Pornography and youth produced sexual imagery
Overview of session
This 2 hour course aims to enable participants to gain knowledge and skills about the influences and pressures young people face online as they develop and explore their emerging sexuality.
Course Objectives
By the end of the training participants will have gained knowledge and understanding of:
- The research and laws covering pornography and young people.
- Consider the impact of pornography on young people.
- Consider how to talk to young people about Pornography
- Overview the research and Laws surrounding Youth Produced Sexual Imagery
- Consider the impact of Youth Produced Sexual Imagery and Image Based Sexual Abuse on young people
- Consider how to talk to young people about Youth produced sexual imagery (YPSI) and Image based sexual abuse.
Who should attend
This 2 hour FREE training is for any professional who supports and provides services for young people in Buckinghamshire.
Course Schedule
Create a safe learning environment
Overview of session
This 2 hour session is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to recognise the value of creating a safe learning environment for all relationships and sex education delivery.
Course Objectives
By the end of the training participants will have gained knowledge and understanding of:
- Understand what a group agreement is and how to create one
- Identify some key ways to create a safe learning environment within sessions and your wider setting
- Gain information on Brook’s local offer
Who should attend
This 2 hour FREE training is for any professional who supports and provides services for young people in Buckinghamshire.
Course Schedule
Consent and Managing disclosures of sexual violence
Overview of session
This 2 hour session is designed to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, confidence and tools as to how to react to a sexual assault disclosure and follow up.
Course Objectives
By the end of the training participants will have gained knowledge and understanding of:
- To understand how to effectively embed the topic of consent within the broader PSHE curriculum and to feel confident managing disclosures related to sexual assault
- Understand the importance of adopting a holistic approach to educating about consent including gender, social norms and bystander approach
- Identify a spiral curriculum approach to teaching consent
- Explore the current context of sexual assault in the UK & learn about the effects of sexual assault
- Build on confidence regarding how to react to a sexual assault disclosure and follow up
- How to react to a sexual assault disclosure and effectively follow up
Who should attend
This 2 hour FREE training is for any professional who supports and provides services for young people in Buckinghamshire.
Course Schedule
Healthy relationships and sexual health
Overview of session
This 2 hour session is designed to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, confidence and tools to deliver and discuss Healthy Relationships and Sexual Health with Young People.
Course Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Develop skills to support young people to achieve safe, healthy, happy relationships and sex
- Identify Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and know how to prevent them
- List the different methods of contraception and discuss them meaningfully with young people
Who should attend
This 2 hour FREE training is for any professional who supports and provides services for young people in Buckinghamshire.
Course Schedule
Inclusive RSE for Neurodivergent young people
Overview of session
This 2 hour online session is designed for participants to understand the importance of inclusive PSHE for children and young people with SEND and how it can be achieved.
Course Objectives
By the end of the training participants will
- Have increased their knowledge around the need for inclusivity.
- Have an understanding of laws and policies protecting and educating those with SEND.
- Understand the importance of age and stage appropriate sessions and differentiation.
- Understand the role parents/carers can play within teaching the curriculum.
Who should attend
This 2 hour FREE training is for any professional who supports and provides services for young people in Buckinghamshire.
Course Schedule
Managing difficult questions and sensitive issues in RSE
Overview of session
This 2 hour session is designed To equip participants with the knowledge, skills, confidence, and tools to deliver and discuss effective RSE with young people.
To explore the importance and relevance regarding the specified topic We discuss Consent and LGBT Diversity.
Course Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Able to create a safe space to teach RSE
- Introduction to the mandatory requirements of RSE
- More confident managing sensitive topics
- Focus on the two chosen topics in practice
- Signposting to resources and services to further develop this learning
Who should attend
This 2 hour FREE training is for any professional who supports and provides services for young people in Buckinghamshire.
Course Schedule
Supporting and including LGBT+ young people
Overview of session
Talking to young people about their sexual health & relationships can be a challenging experience. By taking part in this 2 hour training you will gain knowledge and skills about the issues and pressures young people face as they develop and explore their emerging sexuality.
Course Objectives
This session will cover:
- Sex and Gender differences
- LGBT+ Terminology
- Identifying Homophobic, Bi-phobic, and Transphobic bullying, and exploring how these can be challenged successfully
- LGBT+ history and the law
- Increasing empathy and understanding of LGBT+ experiences
Who should attend
This 2 hour FREE training is for any professional who supports and provides services for young people in Buckinghamshire.
Course Schedule
Trans Inclusion Training
Overview of session
A five module online programme designed for professionals who want to improve their knowledge, awareness and confidence in working with trans clients, making their service more accessible, and knowing where to signpost and refer holistically.
There are 5 modules in total. You can sign up for any or all. Please note that they are not scheduled in order.
Who should attend
Professionals who want to improve their knowledge, awareness and confidence in working with trans clients, making their service more accessible, and knowing where to signpost and refer holistically. Each session will be covering a different aspect of care, with resource sheets/extra reading that covers all content. Slides will also be available.
Trans Inclusive Care: Trans Identities and Barriers to Access
Overview of session
We want healthcare providers to feel confident supporting trans patients in sexual health spaces. This session will help you to better understand, communicate and engage with the trans community by providing information on trans identities and lived experiences in a safe, non-judgemental space.
Course Objectives
We’ll take a look at the main barriers trans people face accessing sexual health services, and explore what you as an organisation can do to break them down. There will be lots of chances for discussion and plenty of activities, as well as a resource bank which will be shared with all participants for future reference.
Who should attend
Organisations in Bucks supporting trans patients.