Teen Pregnancy Prevention
About the Programs
To decrease teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections in Idaho, the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (APP) program aims to provide youth and their parents/caregivers with access to sexual health education. Studies show that comprehensive sexual health education helps teens delay sexual activity, use condoms/birth control correctly, avoid sexually transmitted diseases, and prevent pregnancy.
Please visit www.idahoteenpregnancy.com for information on teen pregnancy in Idaho for teens and parents.
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program: Reducing the Risk Curriculum
The Reducing the Risk Curriculum is evidence-based, abstinence-based curriculum that is also medically accurate and covers the following subject areas and National Health Education Standards (NHES)
- How to say no to sex
- Abstinence planning
- Communication skills and Healthy Relationships
- Barrier Methods and Hormonal Birth Control
- Correct condom application and use
- How to avoid Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
- Where to get tested for STIs
- Where to obtain birth control and condoms
Reducing the Risk (RTR) is a 16-session curriculum designed to help high school students (9th-12th grade) delay the initiation of sex or increase the use of protection against pregnancy and STD/HIV if they choose to have sex. The major focus is the development of attitudes and skills that will help teens prevent pregnancy and the transmission of STDs, including HIV. This research-proven approach addresses skills such as risk assessment, communication skills, decision making, planning, refusal strategies and delay tactics.
The RTR curriculum helps teens:
- Evaluate the risks and consequences of becoming an adolescent parent or getting an STD or HIV.
- Recognize that abstaining from sexual activity or using contraception are the only ways to 100% avoid pregnancy, HIV infection, and other STDs.
- Conclude that factual information about conception and protection is essential for avoiding teenage pregnancy, HIV infection and other STDs.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills for remaining abstinent and for avoiding unprotected sexual intercourse.
Sexual Risk Avoidance Program: Families Talking Together, Parent Engagement Education
Families Talking Together is a parent-based education to prevent and/or reduce sexual risk behavior among adolescents. The main components of the program are parent discussions with a health educator and a family workbook designed to teach parents effective communication skills, build parent-adolescent relationships, help parents develop successful monitoring strategies, and teach adolescents assertiveness and refusal skills. The program can be delivered to parents either individually or in small group sessions, in a range of settings.
The program seeks to prevent and/or reduce sexual risk behavior by:
- Increasing effective communication skills
- Building parent-adolescent relationships
- Helping parents develop successful monitoring strategies
- Teaching adolescents’ assertiveness and refusal skills.
Families Talking Together consists of two components:
- A family workbook
- Individual or group sessions.
The program is delivered through the health educator training parents through individual or small group discussions. Parents implement the program using the family workbook and individual discussions with their teen.
Sexual Risk Avoidance Program: Families Talking Together, Parent Engagement Education
Families Talking Together is a parent-based education to prevent and/or reduce sexual risk behavior among adolescents. The main components of the program are parent discussions with a health educator and a family workbook designed to teach parents effective communication skills, build parent-adolescent relationships, help parents develop successful monitoring strategies, and teach adolescents assertiveness and refusal skills. The program can be delivered to parents either individually or in small group sessions, in a range of settings.
The program seeks to prevent and/or reduce sexual risk behavior by:
- Increasing effective communication skills
- Building parent-adolescent relationships
- Helping parents develop successful monitoring strategies
- Teaching adolescents’ assertiveness and refusal skills.
Families Talking Together consists of two components:
- a family workbook; and 2) individual or group sessions.
The program is delivered through the health educator training parents through individual or small group discussions. Parents implement the program using the family workbook and individual discussions with their teen.
Other Resources
To sign-up or inquire about any of these programs, contact:
Halle McDermott | 208-296-0758 | halle.mcdermott@phd3.idaho.gov
Visit us at https://swdh.myshopify.com to find free community health resources that will support your organization, your family, or your coalition!