Periodicals
C-AB Abortion Curricula
C-DI Disabilities Curricula
C-GL LBGT Curricula
C-LS Life Skills Curricula
C-PF Parenting and Family Curricula
C-SE Sexuality Education Curricula
C-ST STI/HIV/AIDS Curricula
C-SA Substance Abuse Curricula
C-TI Teen Issus Curricula
C-TP Teen Pregnancy/Prevention Curricula
C-VA Victimization and Abuse Curricula
C-AB Abortion Curricula
C-AB001 Educating About Abortion, Peggy Brick and Bill Taverner. 2001. Educating about Abortion has educator-friendly lesson plans, complete with worksheets and handouts. The lessons are designed to actively engage individuals, to help them learn the facts, clarify their values, find resources, and make informed choices.
C-DI Disabilities Curricula
C-DI001 Socialization and Sexuality: A Comprehensive Training Guide. Winifred Kempton. 2003. This unique publication is a "how to" for professionals who have the responsibility of preparing their colleagues to effectively respond to the needs involving the social sexual aspects in the lives of persons with intellectual disabilities. However, the Guide is more than a training manual. Because trainers can never expect their trainees to absorb all the information they present during a training experience, the book also offers factual information serving to fill in the gaps on each aspect of training.
C-DI002 Socialization and Sexuality, For Professionals Helping People with Disabilities that Hinder Learning. Winifred Kempton. 1993. The curriculum is organized into sessions, or chapters, covering a wide range of topics. Each chapter contains suggestions for the training process, accompanied by relevant information.
C-DI003 Feeling Good About Yourself: It Shows! A Guide to Health Self-Esteem for Individuals with Special Needs. Jeanna Fearon and Lori Wallace, Planned Parenthood of the Springfield Area. 1996. This innovative resource uses pictures and simple language to help staff teach clients way to improve hygiene, appearance, behavior and attitude. Adolescents and adults with special needs
C-DI004 Sexuality Education for Individuals with Special Needs. Jeanna Fearon and Lori Wallace Planned Parenthood Springfield Area. 1995. The Sexuality Education manual is designed to help group home staff better understand the needs of their clients. The clear pictures and easy to read pages makes it easy for staff to sit down with their clients and answer their most commonly asked question about sexuality. The guide contains information on dating, friendship, anatomy, sexual feelings, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, good & bad touches ... just to name a few. Older adolescents/adults with special needs
C-DI005 Positive Partnerships: A Sexuality Education Curriculum For Persons with Serious Mental Illness. Patti Caldwell and Sally Reynolds, Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona. 1994. This curriculum is written to support mental health practitioners in providing regular, ongoing group sexuality education for persons with serious mental illness. The 12 units of this curriculum for persons with serious mental illness provide information and teaching strategies on wide range of sexuality education topics, from relationships to anatomy to sexual orientation to contraceptive methods. The curriculum is designed for use in co-education adult groups of not more than 15--20.
C-GL LBGT Curricula
C-GL001 Enhancing Cultural Competence: Welcoming the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community, Planned Parenthood Federation of America. 2002. In this tool kit you will find what you need to improve your cultural competency to better serve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. You’ll be able to assess where you are in the process of becoming an LGBT-welcoming organization, and move forward in guaranteeing full participation of LGBT clients, volunteers, board and staff.
C-LS Life Skills Curricula
C-LS001 Respecting Healthy Sexuality: For Grades 9--12, Education Development Center, Inc. 1998. This publication is part of the Teenage Health Teaching Modules, a comprehensive health education curriculum for middle and high school students. The six sessions for grades 9 and 10 focus on assessing sexuality-related messages, using values to draw the line in relationships and exploring the rights and responsibilities of healthy sexuality. The six sessions for grades 11 and 12 focus on essential skills for developing healthy relationships, dealing with challenging situations and thinking about intimacy in relationships. The module emphasizes abstinence and refusal of unprotected sexual intercourse. It also provides guidance for teachers in developing a comprehensive approach to sexuality education by integrating exemplary curricula on pregnancy prevention, HIV/AIDS and other sexuality topics. Grades 9—12
C-LS002 Growing Into Healthy Sexuality: For Grades 6--8, Education Development Center, Inc. 1998. This publication is part of the Teenage Health Teaching Modules, a comprehensive health education curriculum for middle and high school students. The eight sessions in this module emphasize the importance of developing a healthy sense of self, understanding gender roles and making safe, respectful decisions. The module includes three optional sessions on puberty and incorporates clear messages about abstinence. It provides guidance for teachers in developing a comprehensive approach to sexuality education by integrating exemplary curricula on pregnancy prevention, HIV/AIDS and other sexuality topics. Grades 6—8
C-LS003 The Girls' Circle, A Facilitator's Guide to Providing Self-Esteem Circles for Early Adolescent Girls. Beth Hossfeld, M.S., MFCC. 1995. The curriculum provides a guide for establishing Girls' Circles. A place where early adolescent girls can come together to express themselves in an entirely unique environment. In a circle, girls can listen to one another's experiences, acceptance and nonjudgmental attention from an adult woman (or women) facilitator(s) in a genuinely safe and nurturing situation. The Girls' Circle has a twofold purpose, namely; to provide girls with a safe place to express themselves, and to provide women with an alternative way to be with, and support, their daughters' growth toward womanhood. Young, adolescent girls
C-LS004 MARCH: A Skill Building Curriculum for Fifth and Sixth Grade Boys. 2002.
C-LS005 STAR: A Skill Building Curriculum for Fifth and Sixth Grade Girls. 2002. The MARCH and STAR programs emphasize a whole person experience and focuses on building self esteem, strengthening community involvement, and assisting participants in developing skills that will help them set and achieve their goals. The goal of the program is to give boys and girls the skills they need to make healthy decisions now and in their future. With these skills, it is Planned Parenthood's hope that this will help prevent unintended pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and gang involvement. Planned Parenthood decided to work with younger boys and girls in an effort to reach them before they engage in intercourse or become teen parents. Teens
C-LS006 Nutrition & Body Image, ETR Associates. 1996. This booklet is designed to help middle school students integrate the principles of good nutrition into the food choices they make every day. Activities focus on the benefits of eating a variety of healthy foods and having a realistic, healthy body image. Students learn practical strategies to make their favorite meals and snacks more nutritious and make healthy eating a way of life. Middle School
C-LS007 Self-Esteem: Comprehensive Health for the Middle Grades, Dale Zevin. 1996. This book is designed to increase middle school students' awareness of self-esteem as a dynamic, essential component in their lives. Activities help student identify high and low self-esteem behaviors and build their own self-esteem with practical and engaging strategies. Middle School
C-LS008 Ready to Use: Self-Esteem & Conflict-Solving Activities for Grades 4--8, Beth Teolis. 1996. This book offers 100 lessons and activities to build student security, friendships, positive identified and competence through goal-setting and conflict-solving skills. The author also points out how the activities can be used to enhance current programs! The book includes nine sections: teacher empowerment, student security, positive identify, friendship building, goal setting, competence, conflict solving, behavior that is not acceptable and a final section that includes handouts. Grades 4—8
C-LS009 Communication & Anger Management, Kathleen Middleton. 1996. Designed to give middle school students an opportunity to understand emotions and strengthen their communication skills, with special emphasis on the emotions of fear and anger. Activities help student learn practical techniques for overcoming communication barriers and improving active listening skills. Middle School
C-LS010 Ready-To-Use-Social Skills Lessons and Activities for Grades 4-6, Ruth Weltmann Begun, The Society for Prevention of Violence with the Center for Applied Research in Education. 1996. This is a ready-to-use curriculum based on real-life situations to help you build children's self-esteem, self-control, respect for the rights of others, and a sense of responsibility for on's own actions. Each grade-level book provides 50 or more detailed, age-appropriate lessons for developing specific social skills accompanied by reproducible activity sheets and other activities to help students learn the skill. Grades 4-6
C-LS011 Ready-To-Use-Social Skills Lessons and Activities for Grades 1-3, Ruth Weltmann Begun, The Society for Prevention of Violence with the Center for Applied Research in Education. 1996. This is a ready-to-use curriculum based on real-life situations to help you build children's self-esteem, self-control, respect for the rights of others, and a sense of responsibility for on's own actions. Each grade-level book provides 50 or more detailed, age-appropriate lessons for developing specific social skills accompanied by reproducible activity sheets and other activities to help students learn the skill. Grades 1-3
C-LS012 Voices: A Program of Self-Discovery and Empowerment for Girls. Stephanie S. Covington. 2004. Voices consists of a Facilitator's Guide and a Participant's Journal. It was created to address the unique needs of adolescent girls and young women between the ages of twelve and eighteen. Voices encourages girls to seek and celebrate their "true selves" by giving them a safe space, encouragement, structure and support to embrace their important journey of self-discovery. The program advocates a strength-based approach that helps girls to identify and apply their power and voices as individuals and as a group. The focus is on issues that are important in the lives of adolescent girls, from modules about self and connecting with others to exploring healthy living and the journey ahead. Young women ages 12--18
C-LS013 All About Life, Grades K-4, Caring about myself, my family and my community, Seattle-King County Department of Public Health. 1995. The goal of this curriculum is to prepare our young people to care about themselves, their families and their community. This is accomplished only when we help our youth learn the social skills they need to interact in healthy ways with others. Therefore, the main emphasis of this program is on the process of developing social skills. Students also learn information about the various topics ( relationships, about myself, keeping healthy, and growing and changing) and lays a foundation for their future learning in family life education. K--4, Each topic has two lessons--one for grades K--2 and another for grades 3--4
C-LS014 Life Planning Education, A Youth Development Program. Advocates for Youth. 1995. This curriculum helps prepare youth for the world of work and dealing with sexual and reproductive development, feelings, and behaviors, The program is designed to teach teens that their education and vocational goals will affect their plans for a family and that their sexual decisions will affect their vocational options. HIV education and prevention is as covered as well as healthy sexuality, relationships, violence prevention, health promotion and community responsibility. In addition the program recommends up-to-date videos and weaves issues of cultural diversity throughout. Grades 7--12
C-LS015 Communication and Self-Esteem, Susan J. Laing, and Clint E. Bruess. 1997. A skills-based high school health program. It is designed to increase self-esteem as a dynamic, essential component in their lives. Adolescents
C-LS016 When I'm Grown, Life Planning Education for Grades 3 & 4.The Center for Population Options. 1992. When I'm Grown Up is designed for adults who assist children in the process of growing up. It is designed to introduce the basic knowledge, attitudes and skills that children need in order to participate successfully and fully in adolescence and adult life. This K-6 curriculum is a collection of discussions and participatory activities on a wide range of topics: self-understanding, family, growth and development, friendship, sexuality, life skills, health promotion and careers. Grades 3 & 4.
C-LS011 When I'm Grown, Life Planning Education for Grades K-2. 1992. When I'm Grown Up is designed for adults who assist children in the process of growing up. It is designed to introduce the basic knowledge, attitudes and skills that children need in order to participate successfully and fully in adolescence and adult life. This K-6 curriculum is a collection of discussions and participatory activities on a wide range of topics: self-understanding, family, growth and development, friendship, sexuality, life skills, health promotion and careers. Grades K-2
C-LS012 New Vision, A Culturally Sensitive Life Planning Curriculum. Eric Jackson and Dawn Caballero, The Milwaukee Foundation. 1990. New Vision is designed to be used with various groups of young people, particularly African-American and Hispanic Adolescent. It is appropriate for use in a variety of settings including youth agencies, religious groups, family life education programs, school classrooms, and community programs. Many aspects of life planning are covered including units on communication, self-esteem, reproductive health, developing a value orientation, planning for the future, interpersonal relationships, and sexually. Adolescent, particularly African-American and Hispanic
C-LS013 Teen to Teen: A Sexuality and Life Skills Teaching System for Teens. Ginny Zipperer and Terri Couwenhoven, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. 1994. This is a resource designed specifically to train teen peer educators in issues related to sexuality. High School
C-LS014 Making Choices: Life Skills for Adolescents Workbook, Mary Halter and Barbnara Fierro Lang, Advocacy Press. 1994. This workbook is designed to help adolescents acquire certain skills needed to be a successful navigator of ones own life. There are five parts to the workbook. Part one, Appreciating Differences, helps give a broader understanding of the world. Part two, Personal Development, helps you understand how to develop as a human being. Part three, Family and Values, helps you get to know yourself and understand how the people and experiences in your life have influenced you choice making. It helps you understand the importance of being health and fit. Here you will identify some of the skills you will need in life. Part 4, Making Choices, helps you learn to decide where you want to go and how to map your course. Part 5, Making a difference, you will discover how you can solve the problems that come up and help make the world a better place. Adolescent
C-LS015 (C. 1 & 2) When I’m Grown: Life Planning Education for Grades 5 & 6, The Center for Population Options. 1992. Lesson plans in this curriculum include: Beginnings, Self-esteem and Values, Basic Skills, Family, Stereotyping and Gender, Friends, Assertiveness, Sexuality, Relationships and Parenthood, Health Promotion, Goal-Setting Activities and Employment. Grades 5 & 6
C-LS016 Peer Education…a little help from your friends. Planned Parenthood Centers of West Michigan. 2004. Peer Education is a comprehensive 40-hour training program for young people ages 14-17. The curriculum is interactive and thought provoking, covering such topics as self-esteem, relationships, substance misuse, sexuality, sexual orientation, anatomy, violence prevention, suicide, diversity, contraception, sexually transmitted infections and communication.
C-PF Parenting and Family Curricula
C-PF001 Families Can Talk, Developing Family Programs. Dodie Bielka, Irene Peters, and Kathy Williams. Planned Parenthood of Seattle-King County. 1990. This is a step-by-step guide on how to develop family programs. It includes, program development and training, with practical suggestions and step-by-step directions for planning and implementing the program within your agency. The second section is a facilitator guide and is for self-teaching and training of volunteer and staff program leaders. The third section is the Materials Appendix containing forms, diagrams and handouts helpful in delivering programs to parents and kids. For educators, facilitators, volunteers and staff program leaders
C-SE Sexuality Education Curricula
C-SE001 Wise Guys, Male Responsibility Curriculum, Family Life Council of Greater Greensboro, Inc. 1997. This curriculum is designed to prevent adolescent pregnancy by teaching young males self-responsibility in several areas, primarily in the area of sexual development. Chapters are titles: Myself, Personal and Family Values, Communication and "masculinity," Sexuality, Dating Violence, Abstinence and Contraception, STI's, Goal setting, Decision-Making, and Parenthood. The curriculum uses a variety of teaching techniques, including: lecture, discussions, brainstorming, audio-visual, role-playing, guest speakers, structured activities, values voting/values continuum, incomplete sentences, stories-case studies inventories and weekly goal-setting assignments. Adolescent males
C-SE002 (Copies 1 & 2) Birth, Bodies and Babies, Sexuality Education in Early Childhood Programs. 1989. The Center for Family Life Education, Planned Parenthood of Bergen County, Inc. This manual is designed to help staff in early childhood programs provide for the intellectual, emotional and physical growth of children in their care. It will help staff deal with sexual issues in ways that promote age appropriate learning in this vital area of development. Early Childhood age
C-SE003 Teaching Safer Sex. The Center for Family Life Education, Planned Parenthood of Bergen County, Inc. 1987. This curriculum seeks to provide a remedy for what is lacking in most sexuality education curriculum by focusing on knowledge, attitudes and skills required for safer sexual behavior. The teaching strategies are designed to encourage thoughtful sexual decision making and can be used to supplement existing sex education, AIDS education and STI curricula and/or to integrate safer sex objectives into more traditional academic curricula. Adolescents and young adults, some activities will not be appropriate for younger groups.
C-SE004 (Copies 1 & 2) Streetwise to Sex-Wise, Sexuality education for High-Risk Youth. Steve Brown, The Center for Family Life Education, Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey. 1993. This manual provides an easy to use yet comprehensive model for a basic series on human sexuality for high-risk teens. It applies the current "state of the art" methodology of sex education to teens in nontraditional settings who often have limited academic skills and are resistant to classroom-based learning. The lessons are simple, concrete and actively involve group members in the learning process. They extend beyond mere factual information and address attitudes, values and skills, which experts find are more likely to lead to positive behavior change in young people. This manual provides background information on teaching sexuality education to these teens, including profiles of the sexual health concerns of four specific high-risk population. And finally it includes a resource section of books, audio-visual, and other teaching tools especially appropriate for high-risk youth. High risk youth.
C-SE005 Wise Guys, Male Responsibility Curriculum, Family Life Council of Greater Greensboro, Inc. 1997. This curriculum is designed to prevent adolescent pregnancy by teaching young males self-responsibility in several areas, primarily in the area of sexual development. Chapters are titles: Myself, Personal and Family Values, Communication and "masculinity," Sexuality, Dating Violence, Abstinence and Contraception, STI's, Goal setting, Decision-Making, and Parenthood. The curriculum uses a variety of teaching techniques, including: lecture, discussions, brainstorming, audio-visual, role-playing, guest speakers, structured activities, values voting/values continuum, incomplete sentences, stories-case studies inventories and weekly goal-setting assignments. Adolescent males
C-SE006 Special Education F.L.A.S.H.: Family Life and Sexual Health, Jane Stangle. 1991. Lessons in this plan include: Private and Public, Self-Esteem, Gender Identification, Families, Friendship and Dating, Helpers, Acquaintances and Strangers, Communication, Assertiveness and Decision Making.
C-SE007 (C. 1 & 2) New Expectations: Sexuality Education for Mid and Later Life. Peggy Brick and Jan Lunquist. 2003. Ours is an aging population with life expectancies increasing. Planned Parenthood is clear in its Vision 2025 that sexuality is about lifelong learning, and that achieving sexual health for people of all ages requires medically accurate, developmentally appropriate and culturally sensitive information; access to well-trained and nonjudgmental health care providers; and courageous advocacy. The materials in the kit will be of interest to individuals and couples at mid and later life, as well as health and human service professionals who work with people at mid and later life. Adult
C-SE008 Making Sense of Abstinence. Bill Taverner and Sue Montfort. 2005. Making Sense of Abstinence succeeds in making the topic of abstinence intelligent, thought provoking, imaginative, respectful and engaging. This lesson provides educators a much-needed opportunity to teach, not preach. Teen
C-SE009 7/8 F.L.A.S.H. Family Life and Sexual Health. Elizabeth Reis, M.S. Seattle-King County Department of Public Health. 1988. This curriculum consists of 20 lessons plans for the middle school classroom. The topics covered are puberty, sexual health and hygiene, STD's, AID's, reproductive system, pregnancy, decision making and teen parenthood, touch and abstinence, birth control, resource people, communication, asking honestly for what you want, taking "no" for an answer, saying "no" and defending your rights. 7th and 8th grade
C-SE010 Educating About Abortion, Peggy Brick and Bill Taverner, Planned Parenthood of Grater Northern New Jersey. 2001. Educating about Abortion has educator-friendly lesson plans, complete with worksheets and handouts. The lessons are designed to actively engage individuals, to help them learn the facts, clarify their values, find resources, and make informed choices.
C-SE011 Filling the Gaps (Copies 1 & 2), Hard to Teach Topics in Sexuality Education. SIECUS. 1998. In working with educators around the country and conducting research on sexuality education. SIECUS has found that certain subjects are consistently ignored, taught poorly, or become the center of controversies. This manual is designed to address eight of these subjects (abstinence, condoms, diversity, pregnancy options, safer sex, sexual behavior, sexual identity and orientation, and sexuality and society) It provides (1) a rationale for teaching them, (2) messages that children at different ages need to know, (3) suggested lesson plans, worksheets, and fact sheets for leaders and the community. THIS IS NOT A CURRICULUM OR PROGRAM PLAN. It is only to be used as a supplement for existing programs. For educators, to use as supplemental teaching activities in topic areas that are considered controversial and/or "hard-to-teach"
C-SE012 STEPS Toward Adolescence. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania. 1999. STEPS Toward Adolescence is a 15-session, comprehensive, sexual health curriculum for youth aged 9--13. It is clear and user-friendly and meets the growing and diverse needs of preadolescents. The curriculum includes goals and objectives for each session: has two sets of lesson plans and activities, one targeted for children ages 9--11. The other for children ages 12--13; and, because young people learn best though play, STEPS is designed to be highly interactive and fun. Ages 9--13
C-SE013 Worth The Wait: Abstinence Education, Tom Klaus, Young Women’s Resource Center. 1997. Lessons in this manual: Building Healthy Relationships, Parenting Can Wait, Making Good Decisions and Parent Point of View. Teens
C-SE014 Male Involvement in Reproductive Health, Including family Planning and Sexual Health--Technical report. United Nations Population Fund. 1995. This booklet presents a state-of-the-art review of existing knowledge regarding male involvement in reproductive health, including family planning and sexual health. It suggests ways win which national authorities, agencies and other organizations working in this field can further strengthen such involvement at policy, program and individual levels. This is not a curriculum, however the information provided can be very useful in your own program/curriculum development.
C-SE015 New Methods for Puberty Education. Carolyn Cooperman and Chuck Rhoades, Planned Parenthood of Northwest New Jersey. 1983. This manual is written for educators who are interested in helping early adolescents adjust to the body changes that occur during puberty. The intent of this manual is to focus specifically on body issues. While it is appropriate for students in grades 4--9 to be learning about such topics as friendship, sex roles, family, conception, childbirth, and relationships, this manual concentrates solely on body issues. It is not meant to be a total family life education curriculum. It is intended that teachers will select lesson plans to be integrated into the existing puberty education component of the total family life curriculum as is appropriate for their individual classes. Grades 4—9
C-SE016 Teaching With Sex, Etc: Articles and Activities, Nora Gelperin. 2003. These articles and activities address the needs and concerns of teens as voiced by teens. Every article is written by a teen, after he or she consults with sexuality experts, and is fact-checked and edited by staff. Too often, sexuality education curricula is crated by well-intentioned adults who do not consult teens and produce activities that teach a “plumbing lesson”, without addre4ssing the feelings, desires, concerns and real needs of young people. Teens
C-SE017 Human Sexuality: Responsible Life Choices, Peggy Calhoun, The Goodheart-Willcox Company, Inc. 1998. Sexuality education is often controversial, both at the junior high and high school levels. Sexuality is an important part of being human, yet it is not always comfortable to acknowledge that young people possess sexuality and face sexual decisions. Adult/Sexuality Teachers
C-SE019 9/10 F.L.A.S.H. Family Life and Sexual Health. Elizabeth Reis, M.S. Seattle-King County Department of Public Health. 1989. Lesson plans in this curriculum include: Tough and Abstinence, Reproductive System, Puberty and Adolescence, Sexual Exploration, Pregnancy, Planning to Parent, UN-Planned Pregnancy, Contraception, STD's, and Sexual Health Care. 9--10 grade
C-SE020 11/12 F.L.A.S.H.: Family Life and Sexual Health. Elizabeth Reis, Seattle-King County Department of Public Health. 1992. Lesson plans in this curriculum include: Critical Thinking, Child and Adolescent Sexual Development, Fertility and Infertility, Unplanned Pregnancy, Contraception, Individuals and Society, Human Immunodeficiency Virus and AIDS, The Sexual Response System, Abstinence and Lifelong Sexuality. Grades 11—12
C-SE021 Positive Images: Teaching Abstinence, Contraception, and Sexual Health. Peggy Brick & Bill Taverner. 2001. This popular manual features 29 lessons for teaching about abstinence, contraception, and other aspects of sexual health. Useful for middle and high schools, colleges, church groups and youth-serving agencies.
C-ST STI/HIV/AIDS Curricula
C-ST001 HIV/AIDS A Challenge to Us All, Your First Parent Meeting. SEGA Foundation. 1995. This is a guide to help any adult to set up a parent meeting about HIV/AIDS. This meeting could happen at a school or it could be a small community meeting. It includes two videos. The first video helps with setting the meeting up. The second video demonstrates how parents can answer children's questions about HIV/AIDS.
C-ST002 Guide to Implementing TAP: A Peer Education Program to Prevent HIV and STI, Megan Renfrew and Kate Fothergill, Advocates for Youth. 2002. This is a step by step guide to implementing HIV/STI prevention peer education programs in schools, faith communities, AIDS service organizations, and/or community-based organizations. Teens/Adult
C-ST003 Plain Talk: A Practical Guide to Community-Based Programming to Reduce Teen Pregnancy, STDs and HIV/AIDS. 1999. Plain Talk is a neighborhood-based initiative aimed at helping adults, parents and community leaders develop the skills and tools they need to communicate effectively with young people about reducing adolescent sexual risk-taking.
C-ST004 EveryBody: Preventing HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Young Teens, Deborah Schoeberlein, RAD Educational Programs. 2000. EveryBody is an abstinence-based program that promotes risk elimination as the safest way to prevent HIV/STD infections and also endorses risk reduction as an important component of HIV/STD-prevention strategies. Lessons and activities promote the development, internalization, and actual use of prevention-related skills and knowledge, commitment to lifelong health, self-efficacy, hope for the future and courage. Teens
C-ST005 Becoming A Responsible Teen: An HIV Risk Reduction Program for Adolescents, Janet S. St. Lawrene, ETR Associates. 1998. This manual is designed for leaders in community-based organizations who want to provide a prevention program for adolescents that has been shown to be effective.
C-ST006 Focus on Kids: Adolescent HIV Risk Prevention, University of Maryland Department of Pediatrics, 2005. Focus on Kids is a culturally-based HIV risk reduction intervention program directed towards high-risk urban youth. The program is designed for delivery in community center settings rather than schools or clinics in order to reach those with higher rates of truancy and lower use of health care services. The program targets "naturally-formed peer groups" through a series of eight 1.5 hour weekly sessions plus an optional one-day retreat. The curriculum draws on Protection Motivation Theory and uses multiple delivery formats (lectures, video presentations, role-playing, small group discussion) to present factual materials on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and contraception.
C-ST007 Training Educators in HIV Prevention, Janet L. Collins, 1990. This manual provides a full range of activities for conducting an educator training on HIV and AIDS. These activities include lectures, a guest speaker, role-play, discussion and other learning experiences that can be used to convey critical information about HIV.
C-ST008 Power Moves: A Situational Approach to HIV Prevention for High Risk Youth, Rocky Mountain Center for Health Promotion and Education, 1994. The primary goal of POWER Moves is to decrease the percentage of youth currently engaging in sexual and drug use behaviors that place them at risk for HIV infection. Lessons are designed to appeal to a variety of learning styles and involve participants in program activities that foster pro-social skill development.
C-ST009 Draw the Line, Respect the Line: Setting Limits to Prevent HIV, STD and Pregnancy (Grade 6), University of California, San Francisco Center for AIDS Prevention Studies and ETR Associates. 2003. This comprehensive, research-evaluated curriculum promotes abstinence by providing students in grade 6 with the knowledge and skills to prevent HIV, other STD and pregnancy. Using a fun, interactive approach, this curriculum shows students how to set personal limits and meet challenges to those limits.
C-ST010 Draw the Line, Respect the Line: Setting Limits to Prevent HIV, STD and Pregnancy (Grade 8), University of California, San Francisco Center for AIDS Prevention Studies and ETR Associates. 2003. This comprehensive, research-evaluated curriculum promotes abstinence by providing students in grade 8 with the knowledge and skills to prevent HIV, other STD and pregnancy. Using a fun, interactive approach, this curriculum shows students how to set personal limits and meet challenges to those limits.
C-ST011 The Complete HIV/AIDS Teaching Kit, Josefina J. Card. 2007. In a concise and convenient format The Complete HIV/AIDS Teaching Kit provides a multidisciplinary approach to teaching the biomedical, social, psychological, and behavioral aspects of HIV transmission, prevention and treatment--offering readers a full understanding of the disease. Helpful teaching tools like learning objectives, key medical and science terms, discussion questions, and quizzes are just a few of the resources included in the text to make counseling clients, leading group discussions, teaching students, or offering outreach in your community more accessible and effective.
C-ST012 Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections, Human Relations Media. 1998. The numbers and percentages of sexually transmitted infections among young people are alarming. This informative video and accompanying CD-ROM provide students with all the facts, with an emphasis on prevention. In the format of a radio call-in show, information is provided on a wide variety of STIs, including Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, genital warts, hepatitis, herpes, and even lice and scabies. Students learn the prevalence of these infections in the population, the symptoms, the treatment, and the long-term effects. Most importantly, students learn how to prevent these infections through increasing awareness, using condoms, and above all, abstinence.
C-ST013 Be Proud! Be Responsible!: Strategies to Empower Youth to Reduce Their Risk for HIV/AIDS. Loretta Sweet Jemmott. 2002. Be Proud! Be Responsible! is a six-part curriculum that provides adolescents with the knowledge, motivation, and skills necessary to change their behaviors in ways that will reduce their risk of pregnancy or contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. To change behavior, adolescents need not only information and a perception of personal vulnerability, but also the skills and the confidence in their ability to act safely. The curriculum consists of six 50-minute sessions, which can be presented over one to six days.
C-ST014 Making Proud Choices!: A Safer-Sex Approach to HIV/STDs and Teen Pregnancy Prevention. Loretta Sweet Jemmett. 2002. Making Proud Choices! A Safer Sex Approach to STDs, Teen Pregnancy, and HIV Prevention is an eight-module curriculum that provides young adolescents with the knowledge, confidence, and skills necessary to reduce their risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), HIV, and pregnancy by abstaining from sex or using condoms if they choose to have sex. It is based on cognitive behavioral theories, focus groups, and the researchers' extensive experience working with youth. Making Proud Choices! is an adaptation and extension of the original Be Proud! Be Responsible! curriculum in that it integrates STD, HIV and pregnancy prevention.
C-SA Substance Abuse Curricula
C-SA001 Alcohol and Sex: Prescription for Poor Decision-Making. Human Relations Media. 1998. After viewing a video and through class activities and discussion, the students will be able to: understand how alcohol affects the body systems and impacts upon a person's ability to make good decisions, recognize that using alcohol makes it more difficult to conduct one's interpersonal relationships with a sense of respect and responsibility, see how alcohol use may provoke misunderstandings among friends and can be the cause of regrettable incidents, gain knowledge about the date rape drug, Rohypnol, and how it is used, and realize that drinking alcohol is not always the same kind of "fun" activity as it is portrayed on television and in the movies. Teens
C-SA002 PALS Prevention Training-Teacher Handbook, Washington Community School District. Project FASST. 1994. This handbook was developed so that PALS (Positive Adolescent Life Skills) instructors would have a clear guide for classroom use and so that new students and instructors could easily learn the PALS Prevention Program. The PALS Prevention program is one component of project FASST, a substance abuse prevention project funded by the U.S. Department of Education to provide specialized services to the Washington, Iowa Community School District. Teacher Handbook, PALS curriculum targets adolescents
C-TI Teen Issus Curricula
C-TI001 Decisions About Sexuality, Beth Rendeiro, M.Ed. Independent Living Project, Judge Baker Children's Center. 1994. Decisions About Sexuality is one of the components of the You! Curriculum/Resources. The various components of this curriculum provide strategies, approaches, and activities that help the adults and young people to better understand and more successfully manage the array of personal interactions leading to a more "successful career as a teenager." Decisions About Sexuality has been written for use in a variety of education settings (public, private schools, residential schools, structured psycho-educational groups, and alternative school programs). This curriculum contains 24 lessons with information and awareness about sex and sexuality, decision making, management of social pressures and understanding high-risk situations. Adolescent
C-TI002 Runaway Curriculum Guide, National Runaway Switchboard. 1994. This curriculum accompanies the video On The Street. It's purpose is to prevent runaway behavior through education to increase awareness of middle and high school students about runaway issues and give them an understanding of alternatives and resources available. Junior and Senior High
C-TI003 (C. 1 & 2) Project SNAPP: Skills, and Knowledge for AIDS and Pregnancy Prevention, Carla Adivi & Jennifer Weissman, Division of Adolescent Medicine Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. 1996. Reach young people before many have initiated sex, and encourage sexually active youth to change their behaviors before patterns are firmly established. Your students will have numerous opportunities to practice communication, refusal and negotiation skills as they engage in a variety of hand-on activities, including games, guided discussion and question-and-answer sessions. Middle School
C-TI004 Young Women’s Lives. Paul Kivel. 1998. Use Young Women's Lives to prevent problems or to intervene with young women at risk. This fully integrated program gives schools, community health agencies; youth service organizations, juvenile corrections, adolescent treatment programs, and churches effective tools for making a practical impact on young women's lives. Teen/Young Adult
C-TI004 Making A Difference!: An Abstinence-Based approach to HIV/STD and Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Select Media. 2002. Making A Difference is an eight-module curriculum that provides young adolescents with the knowledge, confidence and skills necessary to reduce their risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), HIV and pregnancy by abstaining from sex. Teens
C-TI005 Positive Encounters: Talking One-on-One with Teens about Contraceptive and Safer Sex Decisions, Amy Voglar. 1999. "Positive encounters" are brief interactions between an advocate and a young person, which may or may not be part of an ongoing relationship. The interactions or encounters are characterized by honest and respectful communication about sexuality. These one-to-one interactions provide opportunities for an advocate to support a young person in making healthy decisions regarding all aspects of their sexual health. This resource is an essential reference for professionals who engage young people in one-to one settings.
C-TI006 Unequal Partners: Teaching About Power and Consent in Adult-Teen and Other Relationships, Sue Montfort and Peggy Brick. 2000. Lessons include: More Than Just Friends?, It’s The Law!, It’s My Friend!, Who’s In Charge?, Unequal Relationships, Unequal Risks, Warning Signals, What To Do? Sex, The Law and Your Choices.
C-TI007 (Copies 1&2) Providing Gender-Specific Services for Adolescent Female Offenders: Guidelines and Resources. Iowa Commission on the Status of Women, Department of Human Rights, Lucas State Office Building. 1999. In the United States, the development of juvenile justice systems, theirs, and program models was shaped by the needs and experiences of male offenders. Meanwhile, the needs of the relatively small population of adolescent girls in the juvenile justice system went unmet as the system strove to provide adequate and appropriate services for adolescent boys. Girls were required to fit into existing service resources that were not equipped to meet the specific needs of adolescent girls. This publication was written as a guide for those who want to use a gender-specific approach in girl-serving programs.
C-TI008 Body Image & Eating Disorders, Susan C. Giarratano A skills-based high school health program. 1997. It is designed to educate high school students about body image, self-esteem, eating disorders and normal eating habits for adolescents. Adolescents
C-TI009 My Body My Rules, The Body Esteem, Sexual Esteem Connection. A Resource & Activity Guide. Maureen Kelly, Planned Parenthood of Tompkins County. 1996. This is a resource guide that will give people a historical perspective, research information and awareness building activities that will help to confront issues of unhealthy body image as they are so significant in the life behaviors of today's adolescents. Adolescents
C-TI010 Be a Bodywise Woman, Heroes: Growing Up Female & Strong. Melpomene Institute. 1993. This curriculum suggests three areas where we can help girls examine their self-esteem and their future choices: General self-esteem, developing self-esteem through physical activity; and discovery role models. These materials are designed for classroom teachers, Girl Scout, Campfire, and 4H leaders, community recreational leaders and parents. These exercises can be used with co-ed groups as well. Some may be able to create an entire unit based on the curriculum; others may wish to select particular exercises to fit into broader themes and issues. Adolescent girls
C-TI011 Looking for Love: Exploring Teen-Adult Relationships, Planned Parenthood Cincinnati Region. 1998. This is a video-based program that addresses age disparity in relationships between teens and adults. It focuses on issues of power, consent and control, and highlights the risks faced by teens who are involved in age disparity relationships (sexual assault, unintended pregnancy, STIs). The program also explores beliefs about why teens and adults have such relationships. Most importantly, the program teaches characteristics of healthy relationships along with communication and assertiveness skills.
C-TI012 (Copies 1 & 2) Together We're Better: A curriculum of sexuality education activities for teens with a culturally competent perspective. Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa. 1995. As the title indicates, this curriculum provides sexuality education activities for teen and provides culturally appropriate approaches to sexuality education. Teens
C-TI013 (Copies 1 & 2) Strategies For Reaching and Working With Culturally Diverse Adolescents. Dena M. Gray-Fisher. Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program. 1995. The purpose of this manual is to provide a conceptual framework for human service providers to engage young minority men and women in adolescent pregnancy prevention programs. Minority teens
C-TI014 Young Women’s Lives, Paul Kivel. This curriculum package provides facilitators with lessons, exercises and activities designed to help young women develop self-respect, along with a repertoire of skills for creating healthy relationships with friends, allies and dating partners. Issues of power and control in relationships, stereotypes of how women ought to act, ways that women have learned to restrain or stifle expressions of anger, and strategies for resisting others' acts of aggression are a few of the many topics covered in the series.
C-TI015 Sexuality and Relationships, Betty M. Hubbard. ETR Associates, 1997. This resource is designed to vie high school students a full understanding of sexuality by giving them information bout anatomy and physiology, as well as the psychological and social aspects of sexuality.
C-TP Teen Pregnancy/Prevention Curricula
C-TP001 Another Chance: Preventing Additional Births to Teen Mothers, Lorraine V. Klerman, Dr. P.H. 2004. Nearly one quarter of teen mothers have a second birth before turning 20. The additional births impose significant burdens on the young mothers, their children, their families, and society. These additional births also seem somewhat puzzling. After all, many teen mothers struggle with caring for their infant or toddler, whether alone or with help from family, and often with little or no help from the child’s father. With these concerns and questions in mind, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy asked Dr. Lorraine Klerman to summarize what is known about additional births to teen mothers- the dimensions of the problem, the factors that seem to increase the chances of such births occurring to teen mothers, their consequences, and the potential for prevention. Teens
C-TP002 (Two copies) It Takes Two: Pregnancy Prevention, Tom Klaus, Young Women’s Resource Center. 1997. Lessons in this manual: Relationships, Parenting, Decision Making and Parent Point of View. Teens
C-TP003 True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High, Where Fiction Meets Reality. Teachers guide. Marilyn Reynolds and David Doty. 1996. This guide contains expository and creative writing activities, discussion guides, group work, art projects, readers theater scripts, vocabulary and comprehension checks, and reproducible masters for four compelling books for young adults. The books are; Too Soon For Jeff, Beyond Dreams, Detour For Emmy and Telling. Teacher's guide, (the curriculum is for Young adult)
C-TP004 You Can Help Pregnant & Parenting Teens. Book 2: Curriculum Guide--Teens Parenting Series. Jeanne Warren Lindsay, Morning Glory Press. 1993. This guide provides guidance for classroom/group teaching of each chapter in each book. Included are objectives, suggested speakers, videos, class discussion starters, puzzles and other activities, reader-theater, case studies, teen father curriculum, and more. Guidelines, strategies and activities are intended for teen parents, both mothers and fathers. Teen parents
C-TP005 You Can Help Pregnant and Parenting Teens. Book 1: Teacher's guide. Jeanne Warren Lindsay, Morning Glory Press. 1991. This book contains study guide responses, writing assignments, projects, reproducible quizzes and an answer key for the Teens Parenting series. Teacher's guide
C-TP006 Parenting: It's a Life, Child Support Teaching Packet for Iowa Schools. Iowa Attorney General Bonnie J. Campbell and Iowa Child Support Recovery Unit Department of Human Services. 1994. This program contains a video which is designed for use in high and middle schools to educate young people about financial as well as emotional support for children they parent. Four teens in the video demonstrate how parenting has affected their lives. The curriculum introduces students to the concept of child support, teaches them how the support system works, and helps them recognize the legal consequences of non-support. It has a variety of easy-to-use activities and the video tape will help to capture the attention of your students. Middle and High School
C-VA Victimization and Abuse Curricula
C-VA001 Drawing the Line: A Guide to Developing Effective Sexual Assault Prevention Programs for Middle School Students, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and National Rape and Sexual Assault Prevention Project. 2000. Sexual assault is a major social and public health problem that affects millions of people each year and exacts an enormous toll on their health and well-being. In the past, sexual assault prevention efforts have focused on teaching woman and children ways to protect themselves from potential attacks. The limitations of these approaches, however, have become more visible over time. Today, the prevention field generally recommends that entire communities become involved in comprehensive efforts to educate young men and women about sexual assault issues, this guide addresses this. Middle School
C-VA002 Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders: Thinking and Acting to Prevent Violence, Educational Development Center, Inc. 1994. This publication is part of the Teenage Health Teaching Modules, a comprehensive health education curriculum for middle and high school students. This module analyzes habits of thought that promote, allow for or prevent violence. In addition to considering the behaviors and motivations of people who commit acts of violence, the module addresses the roles that victims and bystanders play in violent situations. It explores how all three groups can respond differently to conflict. In 12 sessions, students learn and practice conflict-resolution skills that enable them to stay safe while maintaining self-respect and respect for others. Recommended for grades 6—8
C-VA003 Violence & Injury, Lisa Hunter and Donna Lloyd-Kolkin. 1997. This book is designed to give high school students the behavioral skills and information to prevent injuries and effectively deal with conflict. The activities in this resource book will raise awareness, equip students with facts and provide opportunities to practice skills to reduce their personal risk of unintentional and intentional injuries. High School
C-VA004 Sexual Violence in Teenage Lives: A Prevention Curriculum, Judy Cyprian, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. 1995. The United States is an increasingly violent society: we have the highest rate of homicide in the world. We can't escape violence; we are assaulted by its images on a daily basis through the news, TV shows, music and music videos, and by its reality through our own or our friends’ personal experience. We live in a culture where violence has become an expectation rather than an exception. It is time to look at the violence in the lives of our students, to examine the causes of teenage violence and to teach our youth how to have relationships, both intimate and casual, built on mutual respect rather than anger, self-doubt and fear. Teens
C-VA005 The Teen Relationship Workbook: For Professionals Helping Teens to Develop Healthy Relationships and Prevent Domestic Violence, Kerry Moles, Wellness Reproductions and Publishing Co. 2001. The Teen Relationship Workbook is for the therapist, counselor, group facilitator or other helping professional working with young people to prevent or end relationship abuse. This workbook can be used in individual counseling sessions, educational settings and psycho-educational or support groups. Teen-Serving Professionals
C-VA006 Sexual Harassment: Pick and Choose Activities for Grades 7--12, Betty M. Hubbard, ETR Associates. 1996. The activities in this book give you numerous opportunities to engage your students in meaningful processes that encourage involvement and multi-sensory learning. You’ll find more than 35 engaging, purposeful activities to make the important issue of sexual harassment relevant and interesting to your students. Each activity comes with step-by-step procedures, important background information, and handy, reproducible student activity sheets. Grades 7—12
C-VA007 Learning to Live Without Violence. A Handbook for Men. Daniel Jay Sonkin and Michael Durphy. 1989. This workbook provides the reader with tools and exercises to be used on ones own, or with counseling, to examine their lives, and realize that they can control their abusive behavior. Men abusers
C-VA008 Sourcebook for Working with Battered Women. Nancy Kilgore. 1992. This is a comprehensive manual for counselors, social workers and support group leaders who work with battered women. It is designed to give women a sense of involvement in their own recovery, as well as new information, ideas and hope. This manual contains lesson plans that are adaptable to the individual or group setting. For counselors, social workers and support group leaders who work with battered women.
C-VA009 BullyProof. Nan Stein and Lisa Sjostrom. 1996. This teacher's guide offers a curriculum to deal with a problem that is rarely addressed in schools...teasing and bullying. BullyProof contains eleven sequential core lessons comprised of writing activities, reading assignments, class discussions, role plays, case studies and homework assignments that engage children to think about the distinction between "teasing" and "bullying”. These activities help children focus on the boundaries between appropriate and inappropriate, playful and hurtful behavior. 4th and 5th grade
C-VA010 Flirting or Hurting? Nan Stein and Lisa Sjostrom, NEA Professional Library Publication. 1994. Flirting or Hurting is a teacher's guide on student-to-student sexual harassment. Grades 6—12
C-VA011 Sexual Harassment and Teens. A Program for Positive Change. Susan Strauss with Pamela Espeland. 1992. This curriculum provides young people with a safe, supervises way to learn the facts, discover their feelings, and examine their attitudes and behaviors. The curriculum brings people together to explore and understand the causes and consequences of sexual harassment and sexual violence. It helps to identify and solve any sexual harassment problems that may exist in your school or organization, and prevent future problems. It spells out what you can do to sensitize students, faculty, and staff to sexual harassment, design a sexual harassment policy, develop formal and informal grievance procedures, and create a healthy, respectful learning and working environment for everyone. 7--12 Grade
C-VA012 Crossing The Road. Sepler & Associates, Walter H. Bera, Kitchener & Reese. 1992. The program is designed to teach students the legal and functional definitions of sexual harassment in an interactive manner. They will learn what behaviors constitute harassment and, through classroom discussion, devise solutions to this problems. The series contains a videotape, teacher's guide, overheads, student handouts, parent information and a poster. High School
C-VA013 Young Men’s Work, Paul Kivel. 1998. Created for young men ages 14--19, this updated 26-session curriculum helps break the cycle of violence from generation to generation. Young males ages 14—19
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