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Sexuality
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Summary
Primary and secondary prevention of teen pregnancy and STD’s by the most effective and least expensive method – maintenance of, or facilitating a return to, abstinent behavior.
Objectives
- is a developmental curriculum which utilizes experience of the body’s fertility patterns to discover the values and derive the norms.
- teaches responsible decision-making and communication skills in the area of sexual behavior.
- enhances teens’ self-understanding and self-esteem.
- moves teens from being victims of their hormones to being in control.
- demands self-discipline – which is counter-cultural.
- offers methods to reject peer, as well as media pressure.
- affirms virtues, but is not moralistic.
- treats sex as a gift to be respected and valued.
- TO RECOGNIZE the physiological signs of male & female fertility
- TO ENABLE young people to understand emotional changes in the cycle and the feelings these changes generate.
- TO KNOW how to use the curriculum to facilitate cognitive and experiential learning as logical stimuli in surfacing values involved…
- TO HELP students learn to value the freedom and choice which are the true basis of decision making in love and love making.
- TO WIN the enlightened cooperation of parents, balancing their involvement with their own child’s developmental needs.
Components
1. Class Work
2. Individual interviews
3. Monitoring of behavioral outcomes by anonymous questionnaires
2. Individual interviews
3. Monitoring of behavioral outcomes by anonymous questionnaires
Process
- Classes are offered weekly. Two semesters are necessary to internalize class material and experience and understand cyclic fertility.
- If classes are coeducational, Units 1-7 in High School, and Units 2-5 in Middle School are taught in gender-separated groups.
- Can be taught in Health, Family Life or Biology classes, also in Religion classes where appropriate. Youth group settings allow for flexible scheduling.
- Emphasis on primary prevention especially in 7th to 10th grades.
- Teen STAR has demonstrated the ability to undergird virginity as well as a return to chastity.
- Helps young women to understand themselves;
- Helps young men to gain self-mastery.
Available in English, Spanish, Polish, Slovak, French, Lithuanian, Romanian, Croatian, German, Ukrainian, Russian, Malgassy, Italian, Korean.
Instructor Requirements
- All Instructors must participate in Instructor Courses in order to deliver the developmental, self-discovery curriculum
- Believe in the values of the program, teens sense and reject in-authenticity
Time Committment
- Junior high: ages 13-14 (two semesters) **
- High school: ages 14-15 (two semesters) **
- College: Holistic Sexuality (a one semester college-level program, single sex or mixed)
- Teen Parent Programs (secondary prevention)
Student Requirements
Age Limits
Restrictions
- Junior high: ages 13-14 (two semesters)**
- High school: ages 14-15 (two semesters)**
Restrictions
- Parental or guardian permission
- Voluntary participation - The student must want to participate in Teen STAR™.
* Specific religious objectives may be added at the discretion of the site provider.
** Anatomy and physiology taught separately to males and females
** Anatomy and physiology taught separately to males and females