HIV, STD, and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention |
Delaware is seeking to increase the percentage of schools
that address all of the following in a required course taught during grades 6, 7, or 8:
- The differences between HIV and AIDS.
- How HIV and other STDs are transmitted.
- How HIV and other STDs are diagnosed and treated.
- Health consequences of HIV, other STDs, and pregnancy.
- The benefits of being sexually abstinent.
- How to prevent HIV, other STDs, and pregnancy.
- How to access valid and reliable health information, products, and services
related to HIV, other STDs, and pregnancy.
- The influences of media, family, and social and cultural norms on sexual behavior.
- Communication and negotiation skills related to eliminating or reducing risk for
HIV, other STDs, and pregnancy.
- Goal setting and decision making skills related to eliminating or reducing risk
for HIV, other STDs, and pregnancy.
- Compassion for persons living with HIV or AIDS.
Activities
- Conduct a course on HIV prevention and education, confidentiality issues, and infection control for school coaches and athletic directors from public, charter, and private/parochial schools.
- Monitor compliance with Health Education Regulation 851 to ensure age-appropriate,
culturally sensitive, skill-based health education, including HIV prevention education,
is being implemented.
- Monitor 100% of new charter schools for compliance with health education regulations to ensure age appropriateness, cultural sensitivity, and skill-based health education, including HIV prevention implementation.
- Increase knowledge and inform the decision-making process of the HIV Review Panel and the Connections to Learning team by highlighting 2010 School Health Profiles data.
- Conduct professional development trainings in family life and sexuality for teachers,
school nurses, and school counselors to support instruction in comprehensive health education.
Delaware 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
- Conduct a course on HIV prevention and education, confidentiality issues, and infection control for school coaches and athletic directors from public, charter, and private/parochial schools.
- Implement a mini-course for parents of middle schools students to promote parent-child communication on adolescent sexuality and HIV prevention to supplement classroom instruction.
- Monitor 100% of new charter schools for compliance with health education regulations to ensure age appropriateness, cultural sensitivity, and skill-based health education, including HIV prevention implementation.
- Collaborate with the Division of Public Health on a plan to encourage expansion of school-based health center services to include HIV testing and counseling.
Delaware 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
- Conduct a course on HIV prevention and education, confidentiality issues, and infection control for school coaches and athletic directors from public, charter, and private/parochial schools.
- Share results of the strategic planning process with the Community Planning Group
to prioritize the needs of youth at high risk for HIV.
- Partner with a community-based organization to build the capacity of 10 youth-servicing agencies/schools to address the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered youth.
- Increase knowledge and inform the decision-making process of the HIV Review Panel and the Connections to Learning team by highlighting 2010 School Health Profiles data.
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