H.e.a.r.t. Training

California Youth Partnership is excited to be able to equip educators, parents, and youth workers in a brand new sex-ed curriculum approved by California that focuses on Primary Prevention strategies while building protective factors for optimal health. We have sat down and created two different forms of training: online e-training and in-person training. The curriculum itself can be downloaded for FREE as a nonprofit service, but you will need to be certified before you can use it. That’s where we come in to help you become trained and certified. (Note: Our training is not a Training of Trainers (TOT). Attendees are not authorized to subsequently train other staff in this curriculum.) You can download the curriculum below.

Register For Training

Do The Pre-Work

Attend The Training

Bennie Hope (Baek), MAEd, CMSCC, CSESC, SRA, Asist

FOUNDER, CEO
CALIFORNIA YOUTH PARTNERSHIP LLC

Bennie has spent over twenty-five years in education with a focus on training students, teachers, and parents. She holds Multiple Subjects and Special Education Specialist credentials in California and a Masters in Education with an emphasis in Applied Behavior Analysis. Through research, she has found correlations between early sexual debut,  childhood trauma, and health risks that follow. It is her conviction that living in today’s hyper-sexualized and isolated, virtual-based culture laden with so many social pressures, students, teachers, and parents need tangible support to navigate toward a hopeful path.  She is dedicated to meeting the growing need of building social and emotional competence in youth and to training the adults with culturally relevant strategies to support youth. She brings solutions by teaching life skills that develop the will power, way power, and goal setting that lead to a healthy self, healthy relationships, and a healthy future for our youth.

We believe education should be accessible to all. Especially during COVID-19, we believe healthy relationship skills are needed now more than ever. Our team has worked hard to bring the HEART Training online as an e-training for teachers, parents, youth workers, social workers, or anyone who works with youth. Where you are doesn’t matter. What matters is that the youth have access to medically accurate information and social science research that will empower them to voice and choose the path that will increase their future outcomes for optimal health: socially, emotionally, and physically.

Downloadable Assets

1. e-HEART Training Schedule and Instructions

2. Heart In-Service Pre-work

3. 40 Development Assets List

4. 40 Development Assets Checklist

5. Finding Your ACE Score

6. Grounding Activities

Four Course Videos

• Keys to Connect with Your Students: Who are they and what do they need? (41min)

• Keys to Connect With Your Students: How do we use what is cultural to teach what is timeless? (36min)

• Closer Look at the California Healthy Youth Act: What am I supposed to teach? (39min)

• The Roadmap for The Heart Curriculum: How can I best deliver the HEART program? (72 min)

Certification Forms

• HEART Certification Test

• HEART Evaluation Form

WHEN: The e-training is available for you on-demand. Whenever you’re ready, you can register and take the course.

HOW LONG: Participants can plan to take 6-8 hours to go through the course and complete the certification.

PRICE: $499/person

The best learning is in person. This is why California Youth Partnership has a high value for traveling TO YOU so that your teachers and educators can be equipped with the new HEART curriculum. This is a one-day training, for groups of 15–25 middle school and high school teachers, parents, and/or community agency staff. This interactive training typically lasts from 8:30am - 5:00pm. Remember each participant is required to bring a printed copy of the curriculum: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade and do pre-work before the training begins. After the training, attendees will be certified to teach the HEART curriculum. NOTE: This is not a Training of Trainers (TOT). Attendees are not authorized to subsequently train other staff in this curriculum.

Find an in person training near you or invite California Youth Partnership to your area.