Event Description:
Join DSANV for an insightful Info Session presented by Ariel Davis, MPH, CSE. This session explores trauma-informed sexuality education specifically tailored for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Moving past traditional, compliance-driven approaches, Ariel highlights practical strategies to center safety, autonomy, collaboration, and self-advocacy. Attendees will learn actionable ways to shift from control-based behavior management to empowering skill-building and meaningful support.
About the Speaker
Ariel Davis, MPH, CSE, is the founder and creator of Ariel Explains It All, where she provides accessible, trauma-informed sexuality and relationship education for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, neurodivergent people, families, caregivers, and professionals. She is a sexuality educator, facilitator, speaker, researcher, and published author whose work has appeared in the American Journal of Sexuality Education. Ariel facilitates education on sexuality and relationships, consent and boundaries, puberty, safe and unsafe touch, abuse prevention and risk reduction, healthy relationships, personal safety, communication, and self-advocacy. Her work focuses on making complex and often uncomfortable topics easier to understand, talk about, and apply in real life while centering dignity, autonomy, safety, and respect.
Learn more about Ariel and her work:
Instagram: @arielexplainsitall
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariel-davis/