Objective: To educate, empower and encourage students to make healthy lifestyle choices from today forward.
Day One
Goal Setting
Objective: Students will articulate goals and the connection between healthy choices and the attainment and protection of those goals.
Maturity, Character and Decision Making
Objective: Students will analyze the importance of taking responsibility for their actions regardless of the desire for instantaneous gratification.
Reasons for Sexual Expression
Objective: Students will discuss and analyze the different motives a teen might have for choosing sexual expression.
Vulnerability from Alcohol
Objective: Students will analyze how alcohol increases one’s vulnerability to sexual advances (including sexual exploitation or violence).
Possible Results of Sexual Expression
Objective: Students will articulate the possible results of sexual expression and analyze the impact these consequences may have on future goals and society.
Day Two: STD Education
Statistics
Objective: Students will articulate of the realistic occurrences of sexually transmitted diseases.
Types of STDs
Objective: Students will analyze and discuss differences between viral and bacterial forms of sexually transmitted diseases.
Exposure Risks
Objective: Students will analyze different behaviors that place them at higher risk for acquiring sexually transmitted diseases.
Symptoms
Objective: Students will analyze and discuss various symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases, to include asymptomatic.
Possible Physical Affects
Objective: Students will analyze and discuss possible physical affects contracted as a result of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases.
Risk Reduction vs. Risk Avoidance
Objective: Students will articulate differences between safer sex and abstinence
Day Three
Review Day 1 & 2
Reasons for abstaining from sexual expression before marriage
Objective: Students will discuss and analyze certain motives as to why teens might choose to reserve sexual expression for the marriage relationship.
Definition and Value of Abstinence
Objective: Students will contemplate the choice involved in reserving sexual expression for marriage.
Levels of Intimacy
Objective: Students will articulate the difference between emotional intimacy and sex. Students will also discuss the foundation of friendship after being introduced to the five levels of intimacy (i.e. understand the importance of sexual behavior being in the context of marriage).
True Love vs. Infatuation
Objective: Students will compare and contrast other-centered love with
self-centered love.
Progression of Sexual Expression
Objective: Students will understand the stages of physical activities from holding hands through intercourse to identify their personal sexual boundaries.
Refusal Skills
Objective: Students will demonstrate methods to give an appropriate relationship message refusing sexual pressure and learn to avoid vulnerable situations.
Starting Over
Objective: Students will recognize important elements necessary in order to cease sexual activity until marriage.
Choose Freedom (as time permits)
Students review the healthy results and freedoms of reserving sexual expression for the uniqueness of the marriage relationship
Closing
At the close of the presentation, the students are invited to evaluate the presentation and have an opportunity to receive an abstinence pledge tag for private consideration.
Primary Curriculum Sources:
Let’s Talk Healthy Relationships (2008); STD presentation by Amy Ryan, RN; The Medical Institute for Sexual Health; STARS Curriculum