HIV, STD, and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention |
Massachusetts is seeking to increase the percentage of schools in which
students’ family or community members have helped develop or implement HIV,
STD, or teen pregnancy prevention policies and programs.
Activities
- Disseminate the AIDS Advisory Panel Position Paper to agency chiefs,
relevant community-based interest groups, and decision makers.
- Disseminate the Family and Community Involvement Toolkit entitled Sense and Sexuality to all school districts.
- Conduct a listening tour with parents and students around HIV prevention education and use the findings to propose HIV prevention policy updates to the Massachusetts Board of Education.
Massachusetts is seeking to increase the percentage of schools in which the
lead health education teacher received professional development during the past two
years on all of the following:
- Describing how widespread HIV and other STD infections are and the consequences
of these infections.
- Understanding the modes of transmission and effective prevention strategies
for HIV and other STDs.
- Identifying populations of youth who are at high risk of being infected with
HIV and other STDs.
- Implementing health education strategies using prevention messages that are
likely to be effective in reaching youth.
Activities
- Disseminate at least 10 listserv messages, at least three local success
story newsletter articles, and a full newsletter issue related to school-based
strategies for HIV, STDs, and pregnancy prevention to all public school districts.
- Provide skills-based HIV, STD, and teen pregnancy prevention training for 75 school health teachers through a 3-hour workshop entitled “Condom Sense and HIV.”
- Provide sexuality education certification training for 340 school health
and physical education teachers.
- Provide professional development for 35 Massachusetts school health teachers
through an intensive 4-day course to deepen their skills in providing science-based
sexuality education that is meaningful for a diverse range of students.
- Provide health and mental health training for school staff that addresses the unique needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning students.
Massachusetts is seeking to increase the percentage of
schools that have a policy or policies that address all of the following issues:
- Attendance of students with HIV infection.
- Procedures to protect HIV-infected students and staff from discrimination.
- Maintaining confidentiality of HIV-infected students and staff.
Activities
- Disseminate the AIDS Advisory Panel Position Paper to agency chiefs,
relevant community-based interest groups, and decision makers.
- Provide professional development and follow-up support for 50 school
personnel on best practices for developing HIV and sexuality education policies.
- Provide professional development for 50 school psychologists,
social workers, counselors, and nurses to provide high-quality health and mental
health services that address the unique needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
questioning students.
- Conduct a listening tour with parents and students around HIV prevention education and use the findings to propose HIV prevention policy updates to the Massachusetts Board of Education.
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