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Outside of work, Mariam also recently completed her hour registered yoga teacher training, though has yet to start teaching regularly. Meet The Team. Jess Alder Program Director. Teakia Brown Program Manager. This series is comprised of nine individual workshops:. This series of workshops provides young people with tools to unpack and analyze how a person's "media diet" impacts their behavior, relationships, and ideologies.

Adult Series. This series covers everything from an overview of Start Strong, youth development, trauma informed practices, and supporting young people. Content can be created or tailored for an individual agency. Train the Trainer one full day training. This is an interactive training to provide the tools, skills, and knowledge to easily integrate healthy relationship promotion conversations with young people.

Guardian Training 1. Havin g conversations with the young people in our lives can be challenging. This session is set up as a conversation to discuss adolescent brain development, impact of media on relationships, and trauma informed practices.

These workshop is comprised of two parts, participants can select attending one or both sessions. Childcare is provided by our Peer Leaders. Request a Training. S tart Strong trainings are organized into several categories: Prevention: Prevention based workshops that focus on understanding abuse, warning signs, and how to help a friend.

Promotion : Promotion based workshops that engender conversations around healthy communication, building trust, conflict resolution, and support. Media Literacy : A variety of workshops which help young people analyze their media diets. Teen Dating Violence Series These three prevention-based workshops focus on understanding unhealthy and abusive behavior. Break Up Series Dealing with break ups is often difficult and rarely discussed.

Healthy Relationships Series These four promotion-based workshops focus on building and integrating healthy relationship behaviors into teens' lives. Sexually Explicit Media Literacy Training This series of workshops helps youth interpret and make sense of the sexually explicit media to which they are exposed. You can sign up for an online training here:. Meanwhile, please PLAY the 2 minute video below to hear from four teenagers who attended our porn literacy class.

When this video was made in Fall , two had been through the class and two had not. It also features some of the teen peer leaders talking about the class:.