HIV, STD, and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention |
Maryland 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
- Facilitate professional development for health educators, parents, and families
in local school systems to increase awareness and health information on HIV, STD,
and teen pregnancy prevention.
- Increase community youth involvement in HIV, STD, and teen pregnancy prevention
efforts through collaborative planning and implementation of effective after school
programs, leadership opportunities, and parent/family involvement.
- Collaborate and coordinate with key state agencies to address youth at increase
risk for HIV transmission by offering three professional development events for health
educators and key stakeholders.
- Assess the programmatic needs all 24 local school systems and provide intensive
technical assistance to at least eight sites to implement culturally competent,
science-based HIV, STD, and teen pregnancy prevention educational programs.
Maryland 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
- Provide professional development and technical assistance for all lead health
education teachers on HIV prevention education.
- Facilitate professional development opportunities to integrate HIV, STD, and
teen pregnancy prevention through a multidisciplinary team approach using the Maryland
model for coordinated school health.
- Evaluate outcome measures for HIV program activities in local school systems through
a Web-based format of the 2010 School Health Profiles Survey.
Maryland 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
- Provide professional development and technical assistance for all lead health
education teachers on HIV prevention education.
- Facilitate professional development opportunities to integrate HIV, STD, and teen
pregnancy prevention through a multidisciplinary team approach using the Maryland model
for coordinated school health.
- Collaborate and coordinate with key state agencies to address youth at increase risk
for HIV transmission by offering three professional development events for health educators
and key stakeholders.
- Assess the programmatic needs of all 24 local school systems and provide intensive
technical assistance to at least eight sites to implement culturally competent,
science-based HIV, STD, and teen pregnancy prevention educational programs.
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