October 2024 Cohort

We're so excited to provide our next live cohort and look forward to working with each of you! This is our SYNCHRONOUS learning option that meets weekly via Zoom for CERTIFIED PROVIDERS only. The certification course schedule is as follows:

  • September 27– Orientation (required)
  • October 4– Course 1: Who Are Sex Workers?
  • October 11– Course 2: A Brief Look Throughout History
  • October 18– Course 3: Systemic Oppression
  • October 25– Course 4: Systemic Oppression in Healthcare
  • November 1– Course 5: Sex Work. Trafficking, and Propaganda
  • November 8– Course 6: Decriminalization vs. Legalization
  • November 15– Course 7: Sex Shame, Addiction & Porn
  • November 22– Course 8: The Physiology of Trauma
  • November 29– Course 9: Dynamics of Abuse
  • December 6– Course 10: The Role of Community
  • December 13– Course 11: Sex Work, Sex Positivity & Families
  • December 20– Course 12: Clinical Concerns for Working with Sex Workers
  • January-March: Direct Service
  • January 15, February 19, and March 19 from 6:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Group Supervision

CERTIFIED PROVIDER PATH

Upon completion of the coursework, students will offer counseling to a SWer for 12 sessions, pro bono, and attend group supervision once a month for 3 months, and be listed in our Provider Registry page as a "Certified Provider." If you choose this path, we ask that you share your professional or personal website, or social media to verify your adherence to our etiquette and expectations policy.

ECC will refer this client through our parent organization, sex worker-led, Zepp Wellness Center. ECC will meet with each client after their care to discuss your competence in session. Once your direct service & supervision hours are complete and we’ve met with the clients, you will be added to our Provider Registry for two years.

ACCESSIBILITY

All of our courses will include live captioning. If further accessibility tools are needed don't hesitate to reach out!

We are proud to offer tiered pricing for financial accessibility. If you are Black, Indigenous, or a person of color you are welcome to use the coupon code: BIPOC for 11% off. If you are Unlicensed AND Black, Indigenous, or a person of color seeking professional development use code: UNLICENSED for 55% off. 

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 36 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.

What People Are Saying:

ECC provided knowledge that is unlike any other instruction I have found in other continuing education courses. Everyone, from the organization to the peers in our groups, allowed me the opportunity to grow through discomfort while also holding space for each other during this course.

Eliana R.

This course reminded me how important and necessary anti-oppressive practices are to the work. It helped me to feel seen, supported, and understood in my identities and reignited my passion for advocacy in the field of mental health - not just for affirming care for sex workers, but for all whose marginalization results in exclusion or a lack of safety in spaces that are meant to care for and support them. Our very existence is political, the work we do is political, and I now have so many more resources to continue challenging oppressive systems inside of myself, in the field, and in my communities.

Laura B.

$2,700.00 USD

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