Nebraska 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 teaching youth.
Activities
- Establish a cadre of trainers to provide professional development and resource
development on effective HIV prevention education to health education teachers statewide.
- Collaborate with 50 local school districts and youth-serving agencies to support
effective HIV prevention education programs that meet the needs of their communities.
- Partner with three minority institutions to provide effective HIV prevention
education for 13- to 19-year-old youth of color.
Nebraska 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
- Collaborate with five state agencies to cosponsor an annual regional HIV/AIDS
prevention conference.
- Provide HIV prevention education professional development events to 24 lead trainers.
- Offer HIV prevention education training to 12 HIV state coordinators.
Nebraska is seeking to increase the percentage of schools that
follow a policy or polices 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
- Provide technical assistance on policy and curriculum development for 200 teachers
implementing effective HIV/AIDS prevention education.
- Provide mini-grants to 10–20 schools on revising policies that address the
confidentiality of HIV-infected students and staff.
- Incorporate policy development in the cadres’ train-the-trainer professional
development design.
