Introduction to the Free Teens Slide Presentation

Sexual intercourse can cause problems for people of my age.

Abstinence is a normal part of dating.

My friends think it is okay for people my age to be abstinent.

I would talk to my parents/guardians if I had a question about sex.

Free Teens“Living in the Age of AIDS/Deciding Your Future”
Spanish Version “Juventude Libre”

Curriculum Summary

Free Teens“Living in the Age of AIDS/Deciding Your Future” is a two-part character-based teen sexuality powerpoint/slide presentation (available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and 7 other languages). Part One covers key medical information about HIV/AIDS and other STDs with many examples of victims who were infected as teenagers, the impact of AIDS and other STDs on children, the impact of alcohol and drug use on sexual risk behavior. Also discussed in part one: the benefits of monogamy and the largest, most scientific sex survey ever conducted in the U.S. reporting that married people have the best love lives.

Part Two discusses limits of condom effectiveness in protecting from a number of sexually transmitted diseases, setting future life goals, emotional risks of teen sex, the ethics of love, the significance of marriage as a worldwide institution, parent-child relationships and responsibilities, responsible fatherhood and mature manhood, making good decisions, refusal skills, dealing with media and peer pressure and trends towards teen abstinence in the U.S.

The teacher’s prevention guide contains the presentation script (section two). Section one contains an overview of AIDS and Family Life Education programs in the U.S., arguing that directive, character-based sexuality education is the most effective, age-appropriate approach for middle school and high school students. The Free Teens“Living in the Age of AIDS/Deciding Your Future” presentation complies with all eight elements of the Section 510 definition of abstinence education and the thirteen themes in the “Scope section of the CBAE grant RFP guidance.

Supplementary Materials

Free Teens Student Workbook (4^th edition, 14 pages, ©2006, also available in Spanish)- contains thirteen roleplaying and participatory student exercises as well as abstinence pledge. 1) Different Types of Relationships: Attraction, Infatuation, Marital Commitment ; 2) Power of Goal-Setting ; 3) Guarding Your Future: Effects of Teen Pregnancy or HIV/AIDS on Future Goals; 4) Are You Ready to be a Parent? 5) Give Advice to a Future Child; 6) Dating Boundaries ; 7) Refusal Skills; 8) Abstinence Ad campaign; 9) Abstinence Billboard campaign; 10) Analyzing TV Messages about Married/Unmarried Sex; 11) Community Service Planning; 12) Interview your Parents about sex, love, & marriage; 13) Write to Future Husband or Wife.

FLY poster (Faithful Love Ynot?)

Videos/DVDs/CD-ROMs

LoveSmart DVD **new 2007! (34:30, four segments) Part One: Choices and Consequences (9:40) Consequences of teen sex, teens who choose abstinence, pressures to have sex, how teens deal with those pressures; Part Two: Sex: More Than Physical (8 min.) emotional consequences of teen sex; Part Three: Fatherhood and Marriage (10 min.); Part Four: Teen Advice for Parents (6 min.).

The Real Deal on Love, Relationships, and Marriage documentary video/DVD (Part IV, “Yvonne’s Story” has a powerful teen mother and abstinence until marriage testimony). Contains 9 sections 10 minutes each on healthy vs. unhealthy relationships, statges of attraction and intimacy, marriage-benefits and challenges, signs of abusive relationships, living together-a good way to select a marriage partner, divorce-only solution to a troubled marriage, how to prepare for a lasting marriage. For more information and to see video clips, go to (http://freeteens.org/realdeal.html ).

Jenny’s Choice roleplaying CD-ROM Jenny, a 15 year-old girl whose boyfriend Brad is pressuring her to have sex, is struggling to decide what to do. Help Jenny to decide after interviewing her, two of her girlfriends, Brad, and Jenny’s mother. Students answer questions after viewing videos of these characters, which can be saved as text files to be reviewed by the teacher. For individual or group classroom use.

CultureMachine iMagazine CD-ROM- get students excited about making healthy choices because of the media-rich interactions and prizes they receive after watching abstinence video education content. It can be used for continuing education handout for students, especially if number of classroom sessions is limited, and also as a way to reach out to parents. Students and parents get free downloads and coupons after they watch the abstinence educational content on the iMagazine and answer online discussion questions (can also be given as homework). Online tracking so you get reports on how many students and parents in your city have viewed the CD-ROM and are answering discussion questions.

The Free Teens curriculum has been used in 38 states and many countries since the early 1990s. It has been approved by the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information as “scientifically accurate, in conformance with public health principles and policies, and appropriate for the intended audience.”

Since 1998, it has been used as part of Title V Abstinence Education funded Free Teens Leadership Training program in Paterson and Jersey City, New Jersey. In 2002 and 2005 grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services allowed expansion into Mt. Vernon, Yonkers and Newburgh, NY and Harrisburg, PA. Independent evaluations conducted by the New Jersey Department of Health in 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004 and by the Institute for Research and Evaluation in 2006 and 2007 found the program to have significant impact on the attitudes and intentions of youth regarding sexual abstinence. Meets federal A-H definition for CBAE and Title V Abstinence education.

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Free Teens HIV/AIDS, STDs, and Pregnancy Prevention Guide

Table of Contents

Section I: Overview of AIDS and Family Life Education Programs (text for parents, teachers)

1. Waking up to reality: this isn’t the 1960s

2. Key ideas and assumptions two main approaches to AIDS/Sex Education in the U.S.

3. Abstinence versus “abstinence-plus” education

4. Does teaching youth information about sexuality lead to positive behavior change?

5. Directive sex education is more effective

6. Do Virginity Pledges Work?

7. Influence of Rogerian psychology on sex education

9. Have teens heard and rejected the abstinence message?

10. Do character-based abstinence education programs work?

11. Abstinence education for “at-risk” youth?

12. Why discuss marriage and monogamy?

13. Teens’ communication with parents

14. Five stages of the Free Teens Leadership Training program

15. Reasons for optimism

Section II: Slide/powerpoint presentation script (teens & parents)

Part One: Living in the Age of AIDS

1. Brief Overview of HIV/AIDS

2. Numbers infected worldwide

3. Impact on Children

4. Other STDs

5. # of Sexual Partners and HIV Risk

6. Examples of teen HIV/AIDS victims

7. Ali Gertz- “This is the time when the cool thing to do would be not to have sex!”

8. Alcohol/drug abuse and HIV/STD risk

9. Which surprising group has the most fulfilled love lives?

Part Two: Deciding Your Future

1. Limits of Condom Effectiveness

2. Statement from former Surgeon General Everett Koop on abstinence and monogamy

3. Setting life goals

4. Teen Sex and Other High Risk Behaviors

5. Emotional Damage from Teen Sex

6. Desire for Love/emotional bonding

7. How do you know if someone is committed to you?
Marriage shows commitment

8. Development of fertilized egg

9. Parent/Child relationship
Mature Manhood = Fatherhood/Male Responsibility

10. Making good decisions

11. Refusal Skills

12. Secondary Abstinence

13. Age of dating and teen sex

14. Setting boundaries

15. Developing critical awareness of Media Messages

16. Impact of teen behavior on future child

17. More than half of America’s teens have never had sex

18. Celebrities who are abstinent

19. Abstinence brings freedom

Appendix: Suggested Student Activities

RQ: Relationship Intelligence
Curriculum Summary

This 17 chapter curriculum contains four sections: Relationships, Personal Leadership, Interpersonal Relationships (male/female), and Community Leadership and six appendices:

Adolescent Anatomy and Development, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, How Safe is “Safer Sex?,”

Are You a Target? Minding Your Digital Diet, Teen Stories, and Money and Relationships. Key themes include male/female identity and manhood/womanhood, the human freedom to choose one’s response, five dimensional sexuality, stages of attraction and intimacy, five steps of relationship bonding, benefits and meaning of marriage, relationship deposits and withdrawals, drawbacks of “living together,” predictors of marital success.

The Student Journal (190 pages) contains dozens of “self-inventory” exercises, story selections, and real-life testimonies. Teacher manual (260 pages) contains student journal, powerpoint/slide presentation script, suggested activities, 23 one-page parentgrams summaries to facilitate parent-child discussions. Meets federal A-H definition for CBAE and Title V Abstinence education and the thirteen themes in the “Scope section of the CBAE grant RFP guidance..

Supplementary Materials

1. RQ: Relationship Intelligence powerpoint CD-ROM

2. Relationship Intelligence Student Workbook includes 16 exercises: 1) Friendship Assessment;
2) Girl regrets having sex at 16; 3) One-week fling yields an unexpected dividend;” 4) They’re in love, but not ready for sex; 5) Saying “no” to dates she didn’t want; 6) True You Self-Test; 7) React or Choose Your Response; 8) Write a Eulogy; 9) What’s Your Love IQ? 10) Are You a Good Match?
11) Interviewing for Marriage; 12) Write a Wedding Vow; 13) Interview a Married Couple;
14) Making Good Decisions; 15) Write “Last Letter;” 16) Relationship Bank Account.

3. Angels Bar & Grill Comic Book/Audiobook (30 minutes on CD-ROM): fictional dramatization of a teen couple facing decisions about sexual intimacy who encounter famous figures from the past at a mysterious diner. Comes with three page study guide.

4. Same DVDs/CD-ROMs as described above.

In September, 2000, the Institute for American Values published a review of ten curricula for teens on marriage and relationships called Hungry Hearts: Evaluating the New Curricula for Teens on Marriage and Relationships. The RQ: Relationship Intelligence curriculum was described as one of the “top three curricula” on marriage and relationships in the country. Following are selections from the review by Dana Mack, associate scholar at the Institute for American Values:

“RQ: Building Relationship Intelligence is the only evaluated curriculum that offers students a direct argument, well grounded in social science evidence, that marriage genuinely does matter, for lovers, children and society. It also blends conflict resolution skills with excerpts from literature to convey the message that sex without union is empty, and that marriage is where union can be most complete.”

Does RQ have a marriage focus? Grade: A.

“RQ consistently relates issues of relationship skills, character development and teen sexual

abstinence to the goal of successful marriage.”

Does RQ convey to students that marriage is beneficial and important? Grade A.

“RQ provides a clear marriage vision, portraying marriage as the key to personal growth in

love, intimacy, and sexual satisfaction. This program also emphasizes that marriage is a key

social institution protecting adults, children and communities. Overall, RQ makes a stronger,

more explicit case for marriage than any of the other curricula reviewed.”

RQ: Relationship Intelligence

Table of Contents

Section I: Relationships

Chapter 1- Friendship Key Concepts: What is healthy friendship?

Chapter 2- Exploring (Family) Relationships Activities include: drawing family tree, writing family mission statement, “relationship bank accounts”)

Chapter 3- Initiation Rites Key Concepts: What does it mean to become a mature man or woman in various cultures, in the U.S.? Shortcuts to adulthood of drugs, sex damage lives. Activities: creating one’s “Life Map”

Section II: Personal Leadership

Chapter 4- Understanding Your Core Identity Key Concepts: idea of core self and core principles.

Chapter 5- Luck, Fate or Choice? Key Concepts: Discussion of man’s freedom to choose his response to life’s challenges. Self-Efficacy to act on future life goals.

Chapter 6- Attitude, Habits and Character = Destiny Key Concepts: Further discussion of man’s freedom to choose his response to life’s challenges. “True You Self-Test” measuring fatalistic or mastery attitudes

Chapter 7- Dealing with Anger and other Emotions Key Concepts: “Emotional volcano” that comes with repressing one’s negative emotions, “dirty fighting” or destructive communication habits and “fair fighting.”

Section III: Interpersonal Relationships

Chapter 8: Male and Female Key Concepts: Research on differences in male and female communication patterns.

Chapter 9: Five Star Sexuality Key Concepts: intellectual, emotional, social, moral/spiritual, and physical dimensions of the male-female relationship, importance of setting boundaries, benefits of abstinent lifestyle and assertiveness skills.

Chapter 10: Stages of Intimacy: Attraction and Infatuation Key Concepts: what happens inside the human brain when people experience sexual attraction or “fall in love”.

Chapter 11: The Third Stage of Intimacy- Connection Key Concepts: A third, deeper and more lasting type of love

Chapter 12: The Fourth Stage of Intimacy: Caretaking Key Concepts: sacrificial/ parental love. The tragedy if people enter parenthood before achieving this mature kind of love.

Chapter 13: What’s Your Price Tag? Key Concepts: importance of self-respect, dealing with sexual feelings, spotting a potential abuser.

Chapter 14: Marriage Key Concepts: personal and social benefits of marriage for men and for women (health, wealth, happiness, etc.), bad reasons to get married, the House of Love (passion, intimacy, commitment, and compatibility), Five Stages of Relationship Bonding, Contracts vs. Covenants.

Section IV: Community Relationships

Chapter 15: Comprehending the Culture Key Concepts: 20th century views of sexuality and impact of economic and technological changes, media impact.

Chapter 16: Synergy Key Concepts: scarcity versus abundance mentalities, synergy, bullies

Chapter 17: Community Leadership discusses the role of the family in the larger community and importance of acting on one’s ideals to serve others.

Appendix A: Adolescent Anatomy and Development

Appendix B: Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Appendix C: How Safe is “Safer Sex?”

Appendix D: Are You a Target? Minding Your Digital Diet

Appendix E: Teen Stories

Appendix F: Money and Relationships

Free Teens Leadership Training, which includes a combination of the RQ: Building Relationship Intelligence and the Free Teens Living in the Age of AIDS/Deciding Your Future powerpoint presentations, has been offered in Jersey City and Paterson, NJ since 1998 and in Mt. Vernon and Newburgh, NY to more than 15,000 students each year with funding from the New Jersey Department of Health Family Health Services and from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Independent evaluations of the program conducted in 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004 by the New Jersey Department of Health found significant increases in student perceptions of abstinence by their peers as well as student intentions to practice abstinence. In the Spring of 2000, the following statistically significant increases in student agreement were found when paired t-tests compared answers in the pre-test to student answers in the post-test (p=<.001).

In the Spring of 2001, the following statistically significant increases in student agreement (p=<.001) were found from pretest (n=444) to posttest (n=495):when paired t-tests were conducted.

In the Spring of 2003, the following statistically significant increases (p<.001) in student agreement were found from pretest (n=624) to posttest (n=589) when paired t-tests were conducted.

In the Fall of 2004, the following statistically significant increases (p<.001) in student agreement were found from pretest to posttest when paired t-tests were conducted.

	Statement		Increase
Using alcohol or drugs increases the chance of becoming sexually active.			39%	p<.001, HS students
A teen who has had sex is able to stop being sexually active.		100%			p<.001, MSstudents
I plan to abstain from sex until I get married.		58%		p<.05, HS students

Center for Educational Media/Free Teens USA, Inc.
P.O. Box 97, Westwood, NJ 07675
CenEdMedia@aol.com
www.freeteensusa.org
201-358-1504/Fax:201-358-9013