A Safer-Sex Approach to HIV/Stds and Teen Pregnancy Prevention

MAKING PROUD CHOICES! MAKING PROUD CHOICES BE PROUD! BE RESPONSIBLE! A Safer-Sex Approach to HIV/STDs CURRICULUM: and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Unique Features: *Designed to empower  Fun and interactive learning Seeing and Exploring Life’s Future adolescents ages 11-13 to change experience designed to increase (SELF) Program: their behavior in ways that reduce participation and engage A life skills and sexual health education the risk of becoming infected with students program of Lutheran Social Service of MN that HIV, STDs and significantly  Community and Family serves youth in Mpls Public Schools. The program goals are: decrease their chances of being Approach  Improve the well-being and positive involved in unintended pregnancies  Role of Sexual Responsibility direction of youth * Addresses the underlying and Accountability  Help youth look at the choices and attitudes and beliefs that many  Role of Pride in Making Proud challenges they face in today’s world young people have about sexual Choices to Abstain or Practice  Help youth build skills to recognize health, abstinence, condom use, personal strengths, family supports, Safer-Sex and community resources HIV/AIDS, and STDS PARENTS MAKE THE SELF uses science-based, medically accurate, age The curriculum has 4 major DIFFERENCE appropriate, culturally appropriate and evidence based components: curriculums. 1. Goals and Dreams and their Parent-Child Communication about POSITIVE RESULTS OF MAKING PROUD relationship to adolescent Sexuality Promotes Healthy Behaviors CHOICES: sexual behavior  Increased knowledge of HIV, STDs 2. Knowledge, including the FACT: Children and teens WANT to and pregnancy prevention causes, transmission, prevention talk to their parents and caregivers  Belief in the value of safer-sex and of HIV/STDs and teenage abstinence about sexuality pregnancy  Lower incidences of HIV/STD sexual risk-taking behavior 3. Beliefs and Attitudes about FACT: Children and teens who clearly  Increased ability to negotiate condoms, HIV, STDs, and understand their family’s values abstinence/safer-sex practices pregnancy concerning sexuality and relationships  Increased ability to communicate Skills and self-efficacy including are more likely to avoid risk-taking effectively negotiation-refusal and condom use behaviors  Increased pride in choosing skills responsible behaviors