Training & Education Offerings

Learn With Outright Online! 

Outright’s online courses are designed to be a resource for school staff and other youth-serving professionals to create safer and more inclusive environments for all young people. 

Online courses are available FREE or at a low cost ($10) to ensure anyone can access the tools and education to support youth.

Thanks to our new platform, Outright’s online courses are now even more accessible and user friendly! They are self-paced, engaging, and interactive, and can be completed from anywhere. Our online courses offer a mixture of video, images, and written text. Each video includes closed captioning.

You will have access to the course for 30 days from the point of enrollment. After 30 days, your access to this course will end. But don't worry - you can bookmark and download resources along the way!

1. Teaching Inclusive Sex Ed: For health educators who want to create and offer expansive and inclusive sexual health education. Building on evidence-based best practices and guided by lived experiences of LGBTQ+ youth in Vermont, this course offers the foundational concepts for creating inclusive classrooms that can support health educators at any grade level. Download our bonus Digital Resource Guide!
   
2. Building Solidarity with LGBTQ+ Youth: Provides tools and frameworks for adults who work with LGBTQ+ youth, like teachers in schools and professionals in youth-facing organizations, to combat adultism and move in solidarity with young people. This self-paced course takes about two hours to complete.
3. Queer Affirming Medical Homes: Dr. Benjamin Kim (he/him) Adolescent Medicine Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA leads this course. It contains up to date literature on working with gender-diverse youth with direct input from trans youth themselves. Our aim for this module is to increase access to gender-affirming medical homes and improve health outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth.

Email education@outrightvt.org for more information.

Learning Partnerships

Learning Partnerships offer tailored long-term support to schools, districts, and youth-serving organizations committed to deep professional development.

We base our in-depth training on the needs and goals of the partnering organizations, schools, or districts. The aim is to fill gaps and strengthen team members’ skills and confidence. We use a variety of interactive modalities to support diverse learning styles.

Learning Partnerships generally span one to three years and involve multi-tiered learning opportunities that may include:

• Organization-wide access to the online learning modules as a prerequisite for in-person learning.

• Multiple half or full-day training sessions.

• Learning needs assessments and evaluation support.

Fee Schedule in development.

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Who we work with

We partner with individual educators, school building teams (including social workers and counselors), and school district teams (DEI committees, board members, and administrators). 

We also unite with youth-serving professionals, organizations, and state agencies to create safe and welcoming schools for everyone in the school district.

Multi-Day Training Intensives

We provide opportunities for youth-facing professionals in communities across the state to deepen their understanding and competency on issues that impact LGBTQ+ youth. We host 10-16 participants, and training is generally two full- or half-day sessions. They may be open to the public or invitation-only to create intentional communities of practice.

Costs vary by event.

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Tailored to meet your needs

We've got online courses and in-person workshops for diverse learning preferences, fantastic Learning Partnerships, and multi-day training intensives for a deeper dive. Plus, we offer ongoing technical assistance and coaching for the ultimate advocacy experience!

Gain a greater understanding of

• Gender and sexuality

• The impacts of systemic harm on LGBTQ+ youth

• Anti-violence frameworks of inclusion

• Intersectionality and our collective freedom

• Tools for assessing, experimenting, and progressing in practices of change that lead to greater inclusion and shared human experience

Oh, and have we told you we’re fun to work with?!