Making Proud Choices!

Teen Outreach

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Nia incorporated the Making Proud Choices Curriculum, A Safer Sex Approach to Syphilis/HIV/STD,and Teen Pregnancy Prevention  as the model for youth outreach program. Two trained facilitators work throughout the community recruiting teenagers, ages 13-18 to participate in group sessions geared towards knowledge, confidence, and skills necessary to reduce their risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), Syphilis, HIV, and pregnancy by abstaining from sex or using condoms if they choose to have sex. 

Making Proud Choices is an eight-module curriculum that provides young adolescents with the skills necessary to the reduce risk for Syphilis/HIV and pregnancy risk-related behaviors, young adolescents need not only knowledge and perception of personal vulnerability, but also positive attitudes towards condom use, skills, and confidence in their ability to apply what they have learned. The Making Proud Choices! curriculum is designed to meet those needs.

Program Activities

The goals and dreams activity focuses on having the adolescents consider their goals for the future and how participating in unsafe sex might thwart the attainment of their goals.

Videos are used to depict young adolescents in various situations. These videos evoke feelings, thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, and stereotypes about HIV/STD, sexual involvement, and HIV/STD prevention skills. 

The role-play scenarios are designed to provide participants with the confidence and skills to negotiate condom use. These realistic role-play scenarios provide young adolescents with a variety of ways in which they could use the prevention skills that they learn in this program.

The curriculum incorporates the "Make Proud Choices! Be Proud! Be Responsible!" theme that encourages the participants to be proud of themselves, their families, and their communities, and to behave responsibly for the sake of themselves, their families, and their communities.