IN·CLUED: Inclusive Healthcare – Youth & Providers Empowered
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai'i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky
IN·clued is an educational program that addresses the sexual health disparities affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) youth. The program aims to address teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates among LGBTQ+ youth ages 14 to 19. The IN·clued program takes a dual approach to address the sexual health outcomes for LGBTQ+ young people: (1) a three-hour workshop for LGBTQ+ youth on sexual health and accessing health care, and (2) two 90-minute workshops for health care providers and clinic staff on best practices for providing care to LGBTQ+ young people. The health center workshop is co-facilitated by adult facilitators and peer educators. This combination ideally results in the outcome of these youth seeking and receiving sexual health services more consistently.
The program is made up of two workshops that serve different populations: (1) LGBTQ+ youth and (2) health care providers and clinic staff. The program was evaluated with LGBTQ+ youth.
The youth workshop serves youth ages 14 to 19 who identify as LGBTQ+ in some way; however, participants do not have to identify as LGBTQ+ or disclose their sexual orientation. The workshop can be facilitated with groups of youth who are already members of an established group, as well as groups of youth recruited specifically for the purpose of this program. The participants should always be attending the workshop willingly, and have the choice not to participate at any time. For example, if a young person is reliant on an organization for housing, food, job stability, and so on, at no point should their receipt of services be contingent on participation in this program.
The health center workshop is for all health care providers and clinic staff who provide care to LGBTQ+ youth.
The IN·clued youth workshops take place in community-based settings and can be implemented in urban, suburban, and rural communities of all sizes. The health center workshops take place at local health care providers or clinics. The program was evaluated in after school settings, community-based settings, and health clinics.
For curriculum, materials, and pricing information, please contact:
To purchase the program (as individual workshops or together as a bundle): https://www.etr.org/store/curricula/in-clued/.
To learn more about the program: https://www.etr.org/ebi/programs/in-clued/.
For training and support, please contact: INclued@ppgnhaik.org.
For information on training or further support, please contact: INclued@ppgnhaik.org.
Fidelity forms are available for IN·clued by contacting INclued@ppgnhaik.org.
Last updated in 2024
The data presented on this page reflect responses from the program’s developer or distributor to a program component checklist that asked them to report on the individual components within their TPP program. The same program component checklist was sent to the developer or distributor of every active TPP program with evidence of effectiveness. The program component table provides information on seven types of program components including content, delivery mechanism, dosage, staffing, format, context, and intended population characteristics; whether the component was present or optional in the program; whether the component is considered to be core to the program; and the lesson number or activity where the component can be found in the program.
In the drop-down menu below, under “Has component,” there are four options that indicate a component as present in the program: (1) “Yes” indicates that the component is present in at least one version of the program (whether that be the program version that was evaluated, the current version, or both versions); (2) “Yes (both versions)” indicates that the component is present in both the evaluated version of the program and the current version of the program; (3) “Yes (current version)” indicates that the component is present in the current, but not the evaluated, version of the program; and (4) “Yes (evaluated version)” indicates that the component is present in the evaluated version of the program, only. Note that for dosage components, the dosage itself is described in the Notes when available.
Some of the components identified are noted as core components of the evidence-based program, but this does not necessarily mean that these components have been rigorously tested and show evidence of effectiveness. Most often developers denoted components as core based on theory or experience in the field. Click here for the list of evidence-based components.
For more details about program components, refer to the FAQ page.
| Category | Component | Core Component | Component present | Lesson number(s) / activities where present |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delivery mechanism | Other | No | No | |
| Dosage | Frequency | Yes | Yes | |
| Dosage | Intensity | Yes | Yes | |
| Dosage | Duration | Yes | Yes | |
| Dosage | Other | No | Yes | |
| Staffing | Deliverer: Community health worker | No | ||
| Staffing | Deliverer: Faith-based individual | No | ||
| Staffing | Deliverer: Health educator | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | |
| Staffing | Deliverer: Mental health provider | No | ||
| Staffing | Deliverer: Mentors | No | ||
| Staffing | Deliverer: Parents/family | No | ||
| Staffing | Deliverer: Peers | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | Qualities of peer education component for youth workshop discussed in youth program manual, pages 10 and 15 |
| Staffing | Deliverer: Primary care provider | No | ||
| Staffing | Deliverer: Social worker and/or counselor | No | ||
| Staffing | Deliverer: Teachers | No | ||
| Staffing | Deliverer: Other | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | |
| Staffing | Experience: Credentials | No | ||
| Staffing | Experience: Education | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | Qualities of an INclued facilitator discussed in Program Youth Manual pages 13-14 |
| Staffing | Experience: Other | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | Qualities of an INclued facilitator discussed in Program Youth Manual pages 13-14 |
| Staffing | Number of staff providing services | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | Additional information related to number of facilitators is discussed in Youth Program Manual, pages 17-18 |
| Staffing | Training: Additional training required | No | Optional | Qualities of an INclued facilitator discussed in Program Youth Manual pages 13-14 |
| Staffing | Training: Developer-led training required | No | Optional | Peer Educator Training Lesson Plan is provided as INclued material resource |
| Staffing | Training: Other | No | Yes (both versions) | |
| Staffing | Other | No | Optional | |
| Format | Mode: Phone (audio) | No | ||
| Format | Mode: Phone (text) | No | Optional | |
| Format | Mode: Phone (app) | No | ||
| Format | Mode: Online/computer (asynchronous) | No | ||
| Format | Mode: In-person | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | |
| Format | Group size: Full-group activity | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | |
| Format | Group size: Independent/individual activity | No | ||
| Format | Group size: Small-group activity | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | |
| Format | Group size: Other | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | |
| Format | Mode: Online/computer (synchronous) | No | ||
| Format | Mode: Other | No | Optional | |
| Format | Other | No | ||
| Context | Context: Environmental supports | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | Additional information about creating the climate for a youth workshop, refer to Youth Program Manual page 13 |
| Context | Context: Environmental constraints | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | Additional information about creating the climate for a youth workshop, refer to Youth Program Manual page 13 |
| Context | Context: Other | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | |
| Context | Setting: After school | No | ||
| Context | Setting: Community based | Yes | Yes (evaluated version) | |
| Context | Setting: Correctional facility | No | ||
| Context | Setting: Faith based | No | ||
| Context | Setting: Health care clinic | No | ||
| Context | Setting: Home-based case management | No | ||
| Context | Setting: Home/housing | No | ||
| Context | Setting: In school (during the school day) | No | ||
| Context | Setting: Mental health clinic | No | ||
| Context | Setting: Residential facility | No | ||
| Context | Setting: School-based health clinic | No |
IN·clued is grounded in the Health Belief Model Theory of Change and is intended to lower teen pregnancy and STI rates among LGBTQ+ young people ages 14 to 19. IN·clued aims to increase sexual health knowledge and skills, provide the tools for youth to advocate for their sexual health, and educate health center staff directly to provide LGBTQ+-inclusive sexual health care. IN·clued also aims to uplift the voices of LGBTQ+ youth. It uses a systems change approach to education by providing referrals to appropriate clinical services and sexual health care that centers the needs of LGBTQ+ people.
Specific goals of the youth workshop intended to improve sexual health outcomes are to:
- Increase LGBTQ+ young people’s knowledge of protective and relevant sexual health information
- Increase LGBTQ+ young people’s self-efficacy around accessing sexual health services
- Decrease LGBTQ+ young people’s rates of unprotected oral, anal, and vaginal sex
The IN·clued youth workshop covers topics such as (1) learning about sexual health needs of LGBTQ+ youth, (2) redefining sex for LGBTQ+ youth, (3) increasing knowledge of STI and pregnancy prevention methods, and (4) learning how to access sexual health care and advocate with a provider practice. The workshop includes the following sessions:
- Let’s Talk About Sex
- Safer Sex and Me
- Health-IQ Steps
- Exam Room Practice
- Know Your Rights
The health center workshop focuses on teaching health center staff to provide LGBTQ+-inclusive health care. It covers best practices for working with LGBTQ+ youth, including how to make the health center LGBTQ+ friendly and how to engage these youth in the exam room so they feel safe, comfortable, and open to sharing their sexual health behaviors. Workshop sessions include the following:
- Remember Me
- Believe It or Not
- Exploring Messages and Beliefs
- Recommendations for Practice
- Implementing Inclusive Practices
- Patient Simulations
Additional details about program context can be found here: https://www.etr.org/ebi/assets/File/INclued-Program-Summary.pdf.
Both the youth and health center workshops are interactive and include debriefs, peer education, and opportunities to practice the skills and knowledge discussed during the group’s time together.
Two components of the IN·clued program can be implemented in a community, either in combination with one another or separately:
- The IN·clued youth workshop: Delivered in one three-hour session and facilitated by adult facilitators or co-facilitated by adult facilitators and youth peer educators. This workshop includes an optional component for providing text messages, to which participants can opt in to receive at the end of the workshop.
- The IN·clued health center workshop: Co-facilitated by adult facilitators and youth peer educators, and delivered in two 90-minute sessions or one three-hour session. The two sessions can either be implemented one after the other or take place on different days. This workshop includes two e-learning modules and an online resource page for health center staff participants after the workshop is complete.
The two sessions can be implemented one after the other or can take place on different days.
The ideal group size for both the youth and health center workshops is 12 to 15 participants, although both workshops have been facilitated successfully with both far more and fewer participants. For especially large or small groups, adaptations will need to be made to the activities and space.
The youth workshop can be facilitated by adult facilitators or co-facilitated by adult facilitators and teen peer educators. Adult facilitators should be community-based educators or staff with sexual health education experience, sufficient health knowledge, and facilitation skills. The program encourages the use of facilitators who have demonstrated connection to, identity with, or experience with the intended community participating in the workshop.
The health center workshop is co-facilitated by adult facilitators and teen peer educators. The program suggests that the adult facilitators be community-based educators working with a pre-existing peer education program. The peer educator component of the health center workshop is required—in particular for the patient simulations component.
All adult facilitators implementing the program should be knowledgeable about the content, comfortable discussing the material and answering sensitive questions about sexual behavior and LGBTQ+ sexual health care, and experienced in using interactive teaching strategies.
It is highly recommended that all IN·clued adult facilitators participate in the training of facilitators (TOF), available both virtually and in person for the youth and health center workshops. The TOF process for each workshop consists of a four-hour virtual or one-day full in-person training for a team delivered by IN·clued trainers. The in-person training delves deeper into the IN·clued program and builds the knowledge and skills for facilitating the program. Both TOFs include an interactive learning process in which educators will be trained to implement the curriculum.
For more information about the IN·clued TOF, go to https://sparked.net/courses/inclued/. Additional virtual professional development for facilitators is available through Spark*ED’s e-learning program, including “LGBTQ+ Affirming and Inclusive Facilitation,” “Facilitating from a Trauma-Informed Lens,” “Cultural Humility and Responsive Facilitation,” and “Facilitating Sex Ed.” More information about these trainings can be found at http://SparkED.net/.
A separate training for peer educators occurs after purchase of the program.
The youth workshop includes a youth program manual, facilitator curriculum, peer educator training materials, and workshop materials and resources (IN·clued zine, mp4 workshop video, adaptations guidance, and more).
The health center workshop includes a facilitator curriculum, peer educator training materials, and workshop materials and resources (adaptations guidance, e-learning modules, and more).
Required materials, including the IN·clued zine, Q Cards©, and more; as well as additional optional materials, including stickers, shirts, pronoun pins, and more, can be found online here: https://www.etr.org/store/categories/topics/inclued/?orderBy=rank%7CASC.
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To meet the intended outcomes for this program, the entirety of the three-hour youth and three-hour health center workshops each need to be completed.
For more information about fidelity forms, please contact INclued@ppgnhaik.org.
For technical assistance, support, and additional information with about IN·clued, please contact INclued@ppgnhaik.org.
Adaptation guidelines for the IN·clued youth workshop can be found here: https://www.etr.org/ebi/assets/File/Adaptations/IN-clued_Youth_Adaptations_Guidance-ETR.pdf.
Allowable adaptations for the youth workshop include updating materials with more up-to-date language and to reflect more identities and new or more community-specific research, enhancing interactivity and games in an activity, adding discussions and materials, and updating names in role-play activities.
Adaptation guidelines for the health center workshop are outlined here: https://www.etr.org/ebi/assets/File/Adaptations/IN-clued_Health_Center_Adaptations_Guidance-ETR.pdf.
Allowable adaptations for the health center workshop include enhancing interactivity, lengthening introductions, adding trauma-informed best practices, making language changes to reflect more identities, using props and wardrobe changes, bringing in clinic-specific information, and necessary changes to accommodate health center group size.
| Citation | High-Quality Randomized Trial | Moderate-Quality Randomized Trial | Moderate-Quality Quasi-Experiment | Low Study Rating | Did Not Meet Eligibility Criteria |
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| Philliber, 2021 |
| Citation | Setting | Majority Age Group | Majority Racial/Ethnic Group | Gender | Sample Size |
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Philliber, 2021 |
After school, Community-based organization, Other setting | 14 to 17 | White | Male and female youth | 1401 |
Evidence by Outcome Domain and Study
| Citation | Sexual Activity | Number of Sexual Partners | Contraceptive Use | STIs or HIV | Pregnancy |
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Philliber, 2021 |
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| Citation | Details |
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Philliber, 2021 |
IN·clued was evaluated using a randomized controlled trial design involving LGBTQ youth recruited through 16 Planned Parenthood affiliates in these states: Alaska, California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. Groups of participants were randomly assigned to either a treatment group that received a one-time, three-hour workshop or a control group that participated in an activity on a topic unrelated to sexual health or accessing sexual health care. Surveys were administered immediately before the program and 12 months after the end of the program, or nine months after the conclusion of an opt-in, 12-week supplemental text message service. The study found that 12 months after the workshop, youth participating in IN·clued were significantly less likely to report having had vaginal sex without using a condom in the past three months (effect size: -0.20). The study also found that, 12 months after study enrollment, youth participating in the treatment group reported having significantly less vaginal sex without using a condom in the past three months (effect size: -0.15). The study found that 12 months after study enrollment, there were no statistically significant program impacts on the following outcomes: lifetime vaginal sex, lifetime pregnancies, lifetime frequency of pregnancy, having vaginal sex in the past three months, having vaginal sex without the use of birth control in the past three months, frequency of vaginal sex without the use of birth control in the |
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