HIV, STD, and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention |
Rhode Island 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
- Assess annual recommendations and prioritize action steps in partnership with the
Rhode Island Department of Health, Office of HIV/AIDS and the HIV Prevention Community
Planning Group Youth Task Force.
- Recruit a diverse membership for the HIV Prevention Community Planning Group Youth
Task Force.
- Provide two HIV, STDs, and unintended pregnancy courses to health education teachers
from at least 50 percent of school districts, including 75 percent of teachers from urban
and low-performing districts.
- Develop an online HIV, STD, and unintended pregnancy self-paced tutorial.
- Disseminate at least two electronic data reports analyzing progress toward and
recommendations for meeting the needs of youth at greatest risk of sexual behavior that
results in HIV, STDs, and unintended pregnancy to all school districts.
Rhode Island 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
- Pilot and evaluate the Women2B role model capacity building training module with
eight female youth-serving staff in two Providence middle and/or high schools.
- Provide HIV, STD, and unintended pregnancy courses to health education teachers with first priority to urban and low-performing
districts.
- Develop an online HIV, STD, and unintended pregnancy self-paced tutorial.
Rhode Island 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
- Provide individualized technical assistance to at least 50 percent of school
districts to strengthen the effectiveness of school health policies and practices
to reduce sexual behavior that results in HIV, STD, and unintended pregnancy.
- Disseminate program information, tools, data and other resources to parents,
students, administrators, teachers, community-based organizations, local media, and
decision makers to help them develop and implement effective HIV policies and
practices in school districts throughout the state.
Rhode Island is seeking to increase the percentage of schools that implement HIV, other STD, and pregnancy prevention strategies that meet the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth by doing all of the following:
- Providing curricula or supplementary materials that include HIV, other STD, or pregnancy prevention information that is relevant to LGBTQ youth (e.g., curricula or materials that use inclusive language or terminology).
- Identifying “safe spaces” such as a counselor’s office, designated classroom, or student organization where LGBTQ youth can receive support from administrators, teachers, or other school staff.
- Prohibiting harassment based on a student’s perceived or actual sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Facilitating access to providers not on school property who have experience providing health services, including HIV/STD testing and counseling, to LGBTQ youth.
- Facilitating access to providers not on school property who have experience in providing social and psychological services to LGBTQ youth.
- Encouraging staff to attend professional development on safe and supportive school environments for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Activities
- Convene the Statewide LGBTQQ Task Force three times and prioritize collaborative activities.
- Work with Youth Pride, Inc. to implement a five-week online professional development course on LGBTQ issues and resources for teachers of health.
- Work with Youth Pride, Inc. to implement four face-to-face professional development workshops on LGBTQ issues and resources for teachers of health.
- Integrate LGBTQ topics within Men2B and Women2B parent and staff training programs.
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