Is your relationship healthy?
Relationship RED Flags!
The "Red Flag" website may be a useful resource to you and act as a guide to examine and discuss your relationship in detail.
Identify "Five (5)"
Click on the thumbnail below titled, "Positive Influences". The positive influences that you identify in your life should be positive, responsible, and mature adults in your life that you TRUST and look up to. These influential people can be your uncle, aunt, youth leader, coach, teacher, counselor...etc. It is important to identify these people in your lives so that you have additional people outside of our class to ask them questions about any of the topics that we discuss in our "Growth and Development" unit. Especially if your question in the question box isn't addressed immediately.
Click on these downloadable forms below:
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(Click thumbnail below)
HIV/AIDS (Click to download worksheets)
Growth & Development Topics
HIV and AIDS
STD (STi's) <----Click on each of these topics for more info.
ABSTINENCE
REFUSAL SKILLS
Sexuality education enables children and adolescents to gain a positive
view of sexuality, provides them with information and skills to maintain
their sexual health and gives them skills to make decisions now and in the
future.
The primary goals for sexuality education are:
Information:
To provide accurate information about human sexuality including: growth
and development, human reproduction, anatomy, physiology,
masturbation, family life, pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood, sexual
response, sexual orientation, contraception, abortion, sexual abuse,
HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Relationships and Interpersonal Skills:
To enable young people to develop interpersonal skills including:
communication, decision-making, assertiveness and peer refusal skills,
and the ability to create satisfying relationships.
Responsibility:
To help young people exercise responsibility regarding sexual
relationships including: addressing abstinence, resisting pressures to
become prematurely involved in sexual intercourse, to reduce the
prevalence of sexually-related medical problems such as teenage
pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and sexual assault.
Reproduced with permission from the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United
States.
CORE VALUES
The following statements reflect the core values around which this program is
built:
- All children should be loved and cared for.
- Every person has dignity and self-worth; enhanced self-esteem helps in making healthy and responsible decisions.
- Sexuality is more than sex.
- Sexuality is a natural and healthy part of living.
- Knowledge about sexuality is helpful; ignorance is harmful.
- Everyone benefits when children are able to discuss sexuality with their parents and/or other trusted adults.
- Abstaining (ABSTINENCE) from sexual intercourse is the most effective method to prevent unwanted pregnancy, STD/STi's and HIV/AIDS.
- All sexual decisions have effects or consequences; each person has the right to make responsible sexual choices.
- Sexual relationships should never be coercive or exploitative.
- It is wrong to knowingly spread disease. In some cases is against the law (AIDS/HIV).
- Young people who are involved in sexual relationships need access to information about health care services.
- People should recognize that a diversity of values and beliefs about sexuality exist in a community.
LITTLE SECRET: QUESTIONS
Questions for ‘Little Secret’ video:
- What advice would you give to each of these young people in the video that acquired HIV/Aids for their future (moving forward)?
- Which of these personal stories affected you the most? How?
- What was something new about HIV/AIDS that you learned from this video?
- Which person inspired you most? How?
- What did you like most about the video?
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Informational Links
Teen Health: http://teenshealth.org/teen/sexual_health/