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Interning can be both exciting and terrifying. How can we construct useful internships that utilize the skills and perspective of young people? This webinar will explore ways to build internships that are both useful to the organization and the intern. This session will also discuss common mistakes made in dealing with interns and offer suggestions on how to recruit, maintain and support them.

Recording of webinar originally presented on September 16, 2009.   

More than 25% of people who are infected with HIV are unaware of their status; youth (ages 13-24) continue to be disproportionately effected by HIV/AIDS and hesitate to seek HIV/AIDS services. This webinar helps HIV counselors and testers assess their skills in counseling youth and provide concrete ways to enhance their counseling skills and offer ways to ensure that barriers to testing experienced by youth are minimized in their testing sessions. In addition, we present strategies designed to mobilize youth for testing services.

Recording of webinar originally presented on November 20, 2008.

Youth-serving organizations should always include young people on its board of directors. But how should youth board members be recruited, trained, encouraged and retained? This webinar will examine ways to nurture effective youth board members and discuss the ways to encourage youth to join a non-profit board. This webinar will also discuss the legal and ethnical ramifications of youth board members.

Recording of webinar originally presented on September 2, 2009.

Proven effective at encouraging youth of color to get tested for HIV, NYAC’s award-winning social marketing campaign, You Know Different, offers organizations an opportunity to enhance their existing HIV counseling and testing programs with minimal effort and no cost. This webinar provides participants with an overview of the principles, implementation strategies and evaluation framework for a campaign designed for and by youth of color. You will receive all the information you need to run a campaign in your community. Plus you can request additional follow-up assistance.

Recording of webinar originally presented on October 23, 2008.

“You Know Different” is NYAC’s award-winning HIV testing social marketing campaign. For the last five years, organizations across the nation have utilized “You Know Different” to increase the number of LGBTQ youth testing for HIV at their organizations. NYAC is now launching an online version of “You Know Different” called yKNOWd on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Learn how online outreach strategies can enhance HIV prevention services.The Facilitator will introduce the new section "yKNOWd," and provide a step-by-step walk through instructional of how to use the photo manipulator and twitter generator.

Recording of webinar originally presented on June 3, 2009.

This page serves as a resource page for a workshop presented at the National Creating Change Conference 2010 in Dallas, Texas.

Workshop Description -

This discussion-based workshop will address the conflicts and barriers created by the "down-er than thou" mentality that often leads to feelings of exclusion and grudges in social justice organizing. Speaking specifically to youth and student organizers, this session will discuss and then outline strategies to build communities of strong organizers instead of alienating one another with destructive judeents. In an effort to create sustainable activism, we will develop real methods for confronting the effects of judgmental conlict.

This advanced webinar continues further into social networks strategy (SNS). During this webinar, participants practice modeling the key elements of SNS. This highly interactive webinar will discuss best practices for SNS and ways to adapt the tool into existing programs.

Recording of webinar originally presented on July 17, 2009.

This webinar will explore the theory behind social networks strategy (SNS). Social networks strategy encourages youth to promote HIV testing or other programmatic goals by working within their own social network. The premise is that the youth we try to reach socialize and engage in risky behavior with peers within their "network." By training youth leaders to deliver key messages within their social network, providers increase the likelihood of reaching other youth at risk. This webinar will examine the theory and principles behind SNS.

Recording of webinar originally presented on May 20, 2009.

Social marketing is more than just a clever slogan; it is a process that can yield great results for any number of programs or services. This session will explore the core elements of creating a successful social marketing campaign without a commercial budget. Webinar includes interactive activities and broad discussion.

Recording of webinar originally presented on February 19, 2009.

If your organization is directly serving young adults between the ages 18-24, you might be qualified to become part of the nationwide LGBTQI Young Adult Tobacco Needs Assessment. The first step in preparing your organization to be part of the Needs Assessment is attending this webinar that will include all the details and logistics required in becoming one of NYAC’s partners in this initiative. If you plan to distribute the needs assessment to the young adults you serve, at least one person from your organization must take this tutorial about the survey tool and submit the evaluation/registration form provided during the webinar to receive the stipends given to the first 50 organizations to sign up with NYAC.

For more information about the Needs Assessment and to see the Survey, click here.

Recording of webinar originally presented on November 10 @ 3 p.m. ET

As part of National LGBTQ Youth Awareness Week, get an update on many of the federal policies important to LGBTQ youth, what's happening on them and what you can do to help! Policies discussed will include an inclusive ENDA, hate crimes legislation, safe schools initiatives, homeless youth and more.

Recording of webinar originally presented on May 28, 2009.

 Come to this webinar to learn more about the unique ways that eating disorders affect LGBTQ youth, current research, and learn program ideas to implement in addressing this issue. This webinar will be guest hosted by the National Eating Disorder Association and will be a great first step in becoming involved in the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, February 21 – 27, 2010. Visit NEDA Awareness Week to find out more. 

Come to this webinar to learn more about the unique ways that eating disorders affect LGBTQ youth, current research, and learn program ideas to implement in addressing this issue. This webinar will be guest hosted by the National Eating Disorder Association and will be a great first step in becoming involved in the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, February 21 – 27, 2010. Visit NEDA Awareness Week to find out more. 

Recording of webinar originally presented on January 12, 2010.

HIV: Hey, It's Viral! is a groundbreaking sex-positive 20-minute video from Beyondmedia Education addressing HIV/AIDS prevention and activism from youth perspectives. The video shows young people what HIV is, how it is transmitted, and how it can be prevented - all spun with a fun soundtrack and entertaining animations to illustrate the science of HIV/AIDS. Focusing on risk reduction, safer sex practices and the importance of testing, the movie stresses the idea that anyone can get HIV, and everyone can help prevent it.

The HIV: Hey It's Viral DVD includes the 20 minute video, plus extra bonus features that explain in depth the biology of HIV, how to use a condom, how to get tested for HIV, as well as individual personal stories of young people living with HIV. Other features include a workbook for educators, an action guide for activists, educational visual aids and more.

NYAC, in partnership with CDC/DHAP, is a provider of capacity building assistance (CBA) services for community based organizations providing HIV/AIDS prevention and education services to young people.  With a specific emphasis on organizations providing services to young men who have sex with men (YMSM) and transgender youth of color, and LGBTQ youth.

This fact sheet contains more information on the capacity building assistance NYAC is providing through our partnership with CDC.

HIV continues to disproportionately affect LGBTQ youth, especially among communities of color. But are your prevention efforts meeting the needs of young people and taking advantage of the many ways that youth communicate, socialize and network? This institute will explore savvy technological strategies to enhance HIV prevention efforts among youth, ages 13-24. From social networking websites to text messages, this interactive institute will look at best practices for reaching youth with the tools they already use on a daily basis. Community-based organizations will learn how to leverage their resources and better outreach to youth utilizing cost effective online strategies. Youth and those who work with them are encouraged to at

This was a presentation given on October 29,2009 at the United States Conference on AIDS in San Francisco, California. By following this link you will find all slides, handouts, and references used during the presentation.

NYAC, along with the National LGBT Tobacco Control Network, hosted HIV & Tobacco: Linkages in Prevention and Cessation for LGBTQ Youth on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010.  Featured presenters were Danielle Grospitch, CTTS and Barbara Warren, Psy.D. 

Get Busy. Get Equal is an online toolkit meant to help LGBT activists to better achieve results. It features a breadth of resources including tips on building coalitions, garnering grassroots support and talking to the press and elected officials. Created by the ACLU.

Safe spaces lead to safe choices. This webinar focuses on creating safe places for queer youth within your organization and on the community level. This session also explores space zone best practices for transgender and non-gender conforming youth. If your organization is trying to outreach to the young LGBTQ community, this webinar is for you.

Slides from webinar presented on January 22, 2009.

Safe spaces lead to safe choices. This webinar focuses on creating safe places for queer youth within your organization and on the community level. This session will also explore space zone best practices for transgender and non-gender conforming youth. If your organization is trying to outreach to the young LGBTQ community, this webinar is for you.

Recording of webinar originally presented on January 22, 2009.

On July 28th, 2010, NYAC welcomed Ra'Shawn Flournoy, Internet Outreach Coordinator for AID Upstate in Greenville, SC for 'Best Practices in Internet Outeach.'  Below is more information about this presentation, including links to the actually listen/watch the presentation recording and resources shared.  We will continue to add resources to this site as we move forward, so please check back for more!  Please contact Shannon Murphy, Program Coordinator, at shannon@nyacyouth.org or (202) 319-7596 x24 if you have any questions or would like further assistance.  Click below for more info!

A Movement, Not A Market is a tobacco and alcohol preention resource for the LGBTQI community. It is a FREE multimedia educational resource on media literacy, the portrayal of the LGBTQI community in media, and the targeting of the LGBTQI community with tobacco and alcohol products.

This DVD-ROM can help improve the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce media messages, and to become an active participant in our media culture. This resource contains 52 media examples (from TV shows, films, magazines, and counter-marketing campaigns), a printable discussion guide, and handouts.

A Movement, Not A Market can be used in classrooms, community groups, and other group settings to:

• understand media literacy in the context of alcohol and tobacco prevention.
• gain more awareness regarding the marketing of tobacco and alcohol products to the LGBTQI community.
• explore portrayals of the LGBTQI community in the media.