Trainings and Workshops

The NYCLU offers numerous trainings and workshops for New Yorkers on a range of civil liberties and civil rights issues. These sessions are interactive and give participants the opportunity to share their experiences, voice their concerns, and ask questions.

Below is a list of our current trainings and workshops:

LGBT Rights in public schools.

This training covers LGBTQ student rights and public school obligations to keep young people safe. It includes issues of harassment, GSAs, school functions such as prom, freedom of speech and expression and more. The training is appropriate for groups of between 5 and 50 youth and/or adults. Each training participant will receive Know Your Rights information. This training can be tailored to be a more general LGBTQ sensitivity/awareness training, or to focus more specifically on issues of gender and transgender issues.

To schedule an LGBT Rights training, call 212-607-3361 or send an email to mailto:ebraudy@nyclu.org with the title of the training, your first and last name, organization, training location, approximate group size and three possible dates and times.

Police Accountability and Criminal Justice Reform

Know Your Rights: What to Do If You’re Stopped By the Police
This training covers civilian-police interactions on the street, in your car and in your home. The training focuses on Fourth Amendment rights in relation to searches and seizures, and provides practical advice for getting through a police encounter safely and calmly, with your rights fully intact. This training is an hour and a half in length and appropriate for groups of between 5 and 50 youth and/or adults. Each training participant will receive a What To Do If You’re Stopped By the Police palm card.

To schedule a Know Your Rights: What to Do If You’re Stopped By the Police training, call 212-607-3388 or send an email to ajones@nyclu.org with the title of the training, your first and last name, organization, training location, approximate group size and three possible dates and times.

Know Your Rights with Police in Schools
This training covers the rights of public school students in New York City when interacting with School Safety Agents and police officers in schools. The training focuses on student Fourth Amendment rights when being searched by School Safety Agents, detailing under what circumstances a student, or his or her belongings, can and cannot be searched. It covers backpack searches, locker searches and metal detector scans, as well as interrogation by School Safety Agents, arrests on school grounds, and how to file a complaint against an abusive School Safety Agent or police officer. This training is an hour and a half in length and appropriate for groups of between 5 and 50 youth and/or adults. Each training participant will receive a Know Your Rights with Police in Schools palm card.

To schedule a Know Your Rights with Police in Schools training, call 212-607-3388 or send an email to ajones@nyclu.org with the title of the training, your first and last name, organization, training location, approximate group size and three possible dates and times.

Understanding the School to Prison Pipeline
This highly interactive workshop introduces youth to the workings of the School to Prison Pipeline. Participants identify the major, everyday contributors to the Pipeline with special attention to zero tolerance policies and over-reliance on school suspensions. Participants also discuss possible solutions to the problem. This workshop is an hour an a half in length and appropriate for groups of 5 to 10 youth. Each participant will receive a Know Your Rights with Police in Schools palm card.

To schedule a School to Prison Pipeline workshop, call 212-607-3388 or email ajones@nyclu.org with the title of the workshop, your first and last name, organization, workshop location, approximate group size and three possible dates and times.

Reproductive Rights

Know Your Rights to Sexual Health Care
This interactive training empowers youth regarding their rights to access health care confidentially in New York. Peer Educators use role plays and skits to discuss mental health care, substance abuse treatment, emergency care and students’ rights to stay in school while pregnant or parenting. This workshop can be tailored to groups of between 10 and 100 youth for periods ranging from 40 to 90 minutes. Each training participant will receive a Do My Parents Have to Know? Your Rights to Sexual Health Services reference card. The NYCLU will distribute condoms and instructions as a part of this workshop upon request.

To schedule a Know Your Rights to Sexual Health Care workshop, call 212-607-3341 or send an email to thi@nyclu.org with your first and last name, organization, training location, approximate group size and three possible dates and times.

Teenagers, Health Care and the Law: An Overview
This interactive training outlines the rights of minors to access health care confidentially in New York. The presentation covers reproductive health care, mental health care, substance abuse treatment, and emergency care as well as circumstances that may compromise a minor’s ability to access care using scenarios common to adolescent service providers. As appropriate, the training can include students’ rights to stay in school while pregnant or parenting. This presentation requires a minimum of 15 attendees and can be tailored to periods ranging from 60 to 90 minutes. Reimbursement may be required for travel outside New York City and/or beyond office hours.

To schedule a Teenagers, Health Care and the Law: An Overview presentation, call 212-607-3341 or send an email to thi@nyclu.org with your first and last name, organization, training location, approximate group size and three possible dates and times.

Teenagers, Health Care and the Law: An Adolescent’s Right to Confidential Rape Crisis Care
This interactive training outlines the rights of minors in New York to access confidential care that may be necessary following a sexual assault. The presentation presents common scenarios facing service providers working with sexual assault survivors. This presentation requires a minimum of 15 attendees and can be tailored to periods ranging from 60 to 90 minutes. Reimbursement may be required for travel outside New York City and beyond office hours.

To schedule An Adolescent’s Right to Confidential Rape Crisis Care presentation, call 212-607-3341 or send an email to thi@nyclu.org with your first and last name, organization, training location, approximate group size and three possible dates and times.

General

Military Recruitment
No Student Left Unrecruited: Frequently Asked Questions About Military Recruitment and Students’ Rights
This training covers students’ rights in relation to military recruitment. The training focuses on military recruiters’ access to student contact information, presence on high school campuses and the rights of student groups. The training is appropriate for groups of between 5 and 50 youth and/or adults. Each training participant will receive a No Student Left Unrecruited palm card.

To schedule a Military Recruitment and Students’ Rights training, call 212-607-3361 or send an email to ebraudy@nyclu.org with the title of the training, your first and last name, organization, training location, approximate group size and three possible dates and times.

Protecting Protest
Know Your Rights: Demonstrating in New York City
This training informs New Yorkers of the basic rules governing the right to engage in protest activities on public sidewalks, in public parks, and on public streets in New York City. The training covers the right to distribute handbills or leaflets; the right to hold press conferences, demonstrations, and rallies; and the right to march on public sidewalks and in public streets.

To schedule a Know Your Rights: Demonstrating in New York City training, call 212-607-3358 or send an email to arosmarin@nyclu.org with the title of the training, your first and last name, organization, training location, approximate group size and three possible dates and times.

Lobbying 101
This training covers techniques and strategies for effective legislative advocacy with elected officials or policymakers at any level. Participants will learn how to prepare for a lobby visit with an elected official, best tools for framing an argument, how to translate a lobby visit into legislative action, and how to follow-up after a lobby visit to ensure productive results. Trainings can focus on general lobby technique or on a specific NYCLU legislative or policy issue. The training is appropriate for groups of between 5 and 50 youth and/or adults. Each participant will receive a Guidelines to Effective Lobbying tip sheet.

To schedule a Lobbying 101 training, call 212-607-3358 or email arosmarin@nyclu.org with the title of the training, your first and last name, organization, workshop location, approximate group size and three possible dates and times.