New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Department of Education receives funding from CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health to
- Conduct the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
- Implement effective policies, programs, and practices to avoid, prevent, and reduce
sexual risk behaviors among students that contribute to HIV infection,
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and pregnancy.
Facts and Figures for New Hampshire
Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Youth Online: Interactive Data for New Hampshire
School Health Profiles
School Health Policies and Practices Study
HIV, STD, and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention |
New Hampshire is seeking to increase the percentage of schools
that provide parents and families health information to increase parent and family
knowledge of HIV, STD, and teen pregnancy prevention.
Activities
- Implement a sexual health communication plan for parents and families including
instructional topics and methods.
- Prepare principals and school board members to communicate with families and the community
about their sexual health education units.
- Provide professional development events for teachers that address active parent
communication activities, sharing their health units with parents at the beginning of the
school year, posting lessons online, and hosting health open houses.
Status
 |
Percentage of secondary schools that provided parents and families
with health information to increase parent and family knowledge of HIV, STD, or teen
pregnancy prevention
Table [pdf 4.2M]
| Map† [ppt] |
New Hampshire 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
- Offer parents and students the opportunity to provide input into to the development of
the HIV/GLBQ workshop design and content.
- Include family members, students, and community members in the development of the pilot
Manchester health curriculum.
- Invite family and community members to participate in school-level trainings for
curriculum, School Health Index and the Health Education Curriculum Assessment Tool.
- Involve community members in the HIV Materials Review Panel, to provide local
participation for all HIV materials approved by the New Hampshire Department of Education.
Status
|
Percentage of secondary schools in which students’ family or
community members helped develop or implement HIV, STD, or teen pregnancy prevention
policies and programs
Table [pdf 4.2M] |
Map† [ppt] |
New Hampshire 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
- Offer several teacher workshops on serving students at high risk for HIV, including at
least one training on how to support the needs of GLBQ students on campus.
- Train teachers to adapt an evidenced–based unit using Google maps to help students locate
reproductive health centers, teen clinics, and shopping locations in their community that
provide reproductive health services including a virtual tour to enhance their knowledge
about the services offered.
- Participate in annual statewide and regional professional meetings to build local
capacity by sharing evidenced–based practices and statewide initiatives related to HIV,
STD, and unintended pregnancy prevention.
Status
|
Percentage of secondary schools in which the lead health education
teacher received professional development during the two years before the survey on
4 key HIV prevention topics
Table [pdf 4.2M] |
Map† [ppt] |
|
|
† The complete PowerPoint and PDF documents are found
here. The PowerPoint documents range in size from 200-230K.
