Caregiver Programs
We lead workshops for parents and caregivers about how to talk to kids of all ages about a variety of consent, gender, and sexuality topics. We work with schools and organizations, and also with self-organized groups of caregivers.
Check out our most commonly requested caregiver workshops below. We also create custom offerings based on your interests.
We can provide all programming in English or Spanish!
Contact us to discuss how we can collaborate on college programming.
It’s never too early to start building consent culture with your kids! Join YES! for an interactive workshop that will teach you how to do just that. Caregivers will reflect on the messages they got as children about their bodily autonomy and identify the values they want to communicate to their own kids. We will discuss best practices for building consent culture at home, and then practice identifying and utilizing teachable moments
When is the right time to start talking to kids about their bodies? The answer is: now! This workshop will help parents and caregivers figure out how to approach the tricky subject of sexuality. Together we’ll explore any discomfort that we as adults feel about this topic. We’ll examine our own values and goals, and then we’ll delve into the details: how to communicate effectively, how to be inclusive, how to encourage consent culture, and more! We’ll end by talking about how to use teachable moments as a more effective alternative to “the talk.”
Research shows us that kids develop a sense of their own gender between the ages of 2 and 5 – they deserve to do this exploration in a safe, affirming, and open space that allows them to be their full
authentic selves. This workshop will support parents and caregivers in examining their own values about gender, learning best practices for breaking down the gender binary and giving kids access to the full range of human experience, and practice responding to real-life scenarios.
We live in a world that makes it really hard to love and appreciate our own unique bodies or to develop a positive relationship with food. This workshop will support parents and caregivers in reflecting on their own food and body values, learning best practices for supporting kids’ relationships with their bodies and food, and practice responding to real-life scenarios.
And more! We also create workshops on other topics on request.
Cost
All workshops for Philadelphia public schools are offered for no charge to the schools, for as long as funding remains.
For all other organizations, we provide caregiver workshops on a sliding scale from $350-2,000. We do our best to work with your budget.
Testimonials
“These workshops are so important for my child because sometimes, as parents we don’t know how to talk about certain topics.”
“The workshop surpassed my expectations. This is a turning point in parenting my daughter. Thank you for helping us mothers figure out ways to have non-judgmental conversations with our children about one of the most meaningful and powerful human experiences.”
“I wish I’d had access to this kind of education and information as a younger person. I feel inspired to truly unlearn and relearn many of the harmful constructs we live with to create the world I and so many of us actually want to live in and want for our current and future young people.”
“I got a lot of excellent information, great language to cut through so much of what is complicated and troubling about discussing sex, sexuality and bodies with young people. I am extremely impressed by how informative this is and how necessary. What a privilege to have experienced this.”