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Experts have identified critical characteristics of highly effective sex education and HIV/STI prevention education programs.

  • Offer age and culturally appropriate sexual health information in a safe environment for participants
  • Are developed in cooperation with members of the target community, especially young people
  • Assist youth to clarify their individual, family, and community values
  • Assist youth to develop skills in communication, refusal, and negotiation
  • Provide medically accurate information about both abstinence and also contraception, including condoms
  • Have clear goals for preventing HIV, other STIs, and/or teen pregnancy
  • Focus on specific health behaviors related to the goals, with clear messages about these behaviors
  • Address psychosocial risk and protective factors with activities to change each targeted risk and to promote each protective factor
  • Respect community values and respond to community needs
  • Rely on participatory teaching methods, implemented by trained educators and using all the activities as designed

Source: Advocates for Youth

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Adolescent Health provides a database of evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs that have shown effectiveness in school or community-based settings.

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Latest News & Media

  • WISH YOUTH POSTER CONTEST! Enter now!March 22, 2018 - 11:15 am
  • June 2017 is “Worcester: Impact on Sexual Health Awareness Month” in Worcester!January 11, 2017 - 4:41 pm
  • How to Talk to Your Children About Consent and Sexual AssaultDecember 16, 2016 - 7:01 pm

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