HIV, STD, and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention |
Colorado is seeking to increase the percentage of schools in which the lead
health education teacher received professional development during the past 2
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
- Develop partnerships and professional development plans with
multiple partners whose missions are aligned with HIV prevention
priorities.
- Analyze the 2009 HIV Prevention and Sexuality Assessment results to
determine the status of health education and medically accurate,
science-based sex education and use this analysis to develop a professional
development plan for teachers.
- Train educators in coordinated school health, including medically
accurate sex education.
Colorado is seeking to increase the percentage of schools in which the
lead health education teacher received professional development on at least
six of the following during the past 2 years:
- Teaching HIV prevention to students with physical, medical, or
cognitive disabilities.
- Teaching HIV prevention to students of various cultural backgrounds.
- Using interactive teaching methods for HIV prevention education,
such as role plays or cooperative group activities.
- Teaching essential skills for health behavior change related to HIV
prevention and guiding student practice of these skills.
- Teaching about health-promoting social norms and beliefs related to
HIV prevention.
- Strategies for involving parents, families, and others in student
learning of HIV prevention education.
- Assessing students’ performance in HIV prevention education.
- Implementing standards-based HIV prevention education curricula and student
assessment.
- Using technology to improve HIV prevention education instruction.
- Teaching HIV prevention to students with limited English
proficiency.
- Addressing community concerns and challenges related to HIV prevention
education.
Activities
- Develop and implement a plan to engage parents and youth in the HIV, STD,
and teen pregnancy education and prevention program.
- Develop and implement a training plan with the state migrant education
program to provide HIV, STD, and teen pregnancy prevention for migrant
students.
- Work with the Colorado Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting,
and Prevention to provide training to targeted educators in coordinated
school health, including medically accurate sex education.
- Work with the Colorado Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting,
and Prevention to provide trainings on science-based sex education programs
proven to change sexual risk-taking behavior among Latino youth.
- Provide long-term, intensive technical assistance to 3–5 school districts
on selecting, implementing, and evaluating science-based sexuality education
programming.
Colorado 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
- Distribute model HIV policies in partnership with the Colorado School
Health Program.
- Meet with the regional area AIDS projects, the Colorado Department of
Education (CDE) school nurse consultant, and CDE regional managers to
develop a plan to promote updated policies to school districts.
- Provide a policy webinar for school districts and youth-serving agencies.
- Monitor and track sexuality education programs and policies in Colorado
schools through the Colorado Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy,
Parenting, and Prevention’s HIV prevention and sexuality assessment efforts.
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