Adult Programs

For adult learners, we offer innovative, customized programs that prevent homophobia, transphobia, and sexual violence in youth-serving spaces and workplace environments.

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Youth Equity Support

For Teachers, Community Support Workers, Camp Directors, and Parents

YES workshops support youth service providers - like teachers, community support workers, camp directors, and even parents - to develop foundational skills for creating inclusive youth spaces.

Canvas Workplace Inclusion Training

For Corporate and Nonprofit Workplaces

Canvas Workplace Inclusion offer Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training where every partnership helps to fund Canvas’ charitable mission.

Step 3 - Facilitation

Using our unique empathy-based model, participants are engaged through an interactive style involving group discussion, personal reflection, and educational activities. Our expert facilitators guide the conversation, bringing insight from their lived and professional experience.

Step 4 - Evaluation

All programs conclude with a follow up activity, either in the form of a post-survey or ongoing check-ins. Findings are shared in a comprehensive report, detailing data from the surveys, outcomes from the workshops, and/or suggested next steps.

YES! Topics

YES! 2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusion

Creating Affirming Spaces for Youth

Our 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion workshops take participants through a series of activities and structured conversations, offering strategies to create safer, celebratory spaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth. Learn key terms, explore allyship concepts, and reflect on stories of those with lived experience. Ultimately leave with a sense of confidence that you have all the tools necessary to successfully support youth of all genders and sexualities.

YES! Consent Cultures

Promoting Consent and Supporting Survivors

In order to challenge rape culture in our communities, it is essential that youth-serving adults learn how to foster, promote, and maintain a culture of consent in their youth spaces. Participants in this workshop will learn best practices to construct environments free of harassment, sexual pressures, and shame, all while gaining skills to tangibly support youth survivors of sexual violence.

 YES! Unconscious Bias in the Classroom

Creating Equitable Spaces for All

This training equips educators with the tools to identify biases in their classrooms and intervene to create more equitable spaces for all. Participants will learn eight types of unconscious bias and the ways in which these biases can affect students and colleagues. Participants will then practice a framework for mitigating these biases through scenarios relevant to their classrooms. The interactive workshop allows participants to engage in a variety of collaborative activities to maximize learning outcomes. Participants will end the workshop with tangible goals for the school year.

YES! Art-to-Heart

Building Supportive, Arts-inspired Environments

Art to Heart helps youth-serving adults create workshops will impart key aspects necessary to creating inspiring arts programs for marginalized youth. This program was created through a series of co-design sessions with youth involved in our community spoken word program, Back Talk. Designed with women, girls, non-binary people, survivors of sexual violence, and street-involved/homeless youth in mind, this workshop will help creatively transform the way you approach community programming.

YES! Consulting

YES Consulting equips youth-serving staff or senior leaders with foundational knowledge on queer and trans inclusion and sexual violence prevention, as well as concrete strategies to improve culture, policies, and infrastructure. We work directly with participants to address specific questions and create plans to meet your goals.

YES! Panels

A panel is a great way to hear diverse viewpoints on a given topic. Based on a pre-survey completed by your team, we customize panels to focus on key themes emerging from staff queries. All panels include multiple lived experience perspectives followed by an informal Q&A with questions submitted in real time at the session. Panels are a fantastic engagement learning option to celebrate a special time like Pride, International Women’s Day, or Trans Day of Visibility. Panels also work well for large teams or to pre-record as an asynchronous training.