Lesson Plans
These lesson plans are from
Advocates for Youth's education programs:
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Creating Safe Space for GLBTQ Youth: A Toolkit—Lesson plans, tips and strategies, background information, and additional resources to help youth-serving professionals create safe space for young people of all sexual orientations and gender identities
- Guide
to Implementing TAP (Teens for AIDS Prevention)
Peer Education Program—A guide that
leads adults and teens through the steps of developing
and implementing an HIV/AIDS peer education program
for schools or communities.
- Life
Planning Education (LPE)—A comprehensive,
family life education program that includes chapters
on sexuality, relationships, health, violence prevention
and community responsibility as well as chapters
on skills-building, values, self-esteem, parenting,
employment preparation and reducing sexual risk.
These lesson plans help educators provide the skills and support that young people need to protect themselves and their partners from unintended pregnancy and infection with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a balance of prevention messages is needed—including abstinence and condom use:
Total abstinence from sexual activity is the only sure way to prevent sexual transmission of HIV infection [and infection with other STDs and unintended pregnancy]. Despite all efforts, some young people may still engage in sexual intercourse that puts them at risk … Data clearly show that young people are sexually active and that they are placing themselves and their partners at risk for infection with HIV and other STDs. These young people must be provided the skills and support they need to protect themselves.
-- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Comprehensive HIV prevention messages for young people. CDC Update, January 1997
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