Sexual Health Training Courses
Advanced and Standalone courses
Title | Course Type | Duration | Lead Facilitator | Times | Venue | Dates |
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C-Card Induction Training
Develop the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary to operate within Newcastle’s very successful C-Card Scheme. Also suitable as a skills refresher and update. |
Advanced | 1 day | Mark Ellerby-Hedley | 9:30-4:30 | New Croft Centre | Dates tbc |
Learning Disability and Sexual Health
This course will develop participants’ knowledge and confidence to support adults and young people with learning disabilities around their relationships, sexuality and sexual health. |
Stand-alone | 1 day | Amanda Holmes | 9:30-4:30 | New Croft Centre | Dates tbc |
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual (LGB) Health and Wellbeing training
This free course is of interest to Newcastle-based workers who either do, or may work with LGB people (whether LGB people are out within services or not) and is for workers from any sector. |
Stand-alone | 3 hours | Janet Owen | 1.00-4.00pm | Civic Centre | Dates tbc |
Pregnancy Decision-Making
Increase your knowledge of pregnancy pathways including adoption and abortion, enabling you to have open and non-judgemental discussions with those facing decisions around their pregnancy and support them to make informed choices. |
Advanced | 1 day | Helen Hindhaugh | 9:30-4:30 | New Croft Centre or online | Dates tbc |
Sex Work, Survival Sex and Sexual Exploitation
This course is relevant to staff and volunteers from voluntary, statutory and independent agencies within Tyne and Wear whose work may bring them into contact with men and women aged 16+ who may be involved in sex work, survival sex and/or subject to sexual exploitation. Develop your knowledge and understanding of the nature and extent of sex work, survival sex and adult sexual exploitation across Tyne and Wear, and of good practice guidelines working with people involved in sex work and those vulnerable to sexual exploitation. |
Stand-alone | 1 day | Debra Cowey | 9:30-4:00 | St Margaret's Church, Scotswood | Dates tbc |
STIs & HIV
Increase your understanding of the routes of STI transmission, increase your knowledge of STI symptoms, explore the stigma faced by people living with HIV and gain an understanding of how HIV affects the immune system. |
Advanced | 1 day | Mark Ellerby-Hedley | 9:30-4:30 | New Croft Centre | Dates tbc |