High School Program
High school programs are typically taught in an eight session segment (one day per week, for eight consecutive weeks).
Week 1: Goals
- What are your dreams and goals?
- Balloon Activity: using risk avoidance skills to overcome potential obstacles to success
- Personality Profiles: how knowing your strengths & weaknesses can protect your goals
- 20 Questions to Discover Your Passion & Purpose
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ about our goals and decisions?
Week 2: Influences
- Name that Jingle: how the media gets in our heads
- REAL Essentials Power Point: What does the media say about love, sex, marriage?
- Drugs, Alcohol & Pornography – Fact or Fiction
- Love Tank: making sure we know where to find support for difficult choices
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ about the way we deal with unhealthy influences?
Week 3: Navigating Differences
- Physical Differences
- REAL Essentials Power Point: Celebrating Differences between Males & Females
- Difficult vs. Different conversation
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ about our views of those who may be different than us?
Circle Game: discussing stereotypes & challenging myths about the opposite sex
Week 4: Love vs. Infatuation
- Basic Needs of the Heart: Love Tank
- Love Languages: How Do You Feel Loved?
- How Do You Spell Love? 4 Types of Love
- Love vs. Infatuation: what’s the difference?
- Steps of Intimacy video: where’s my limit?
- Appointment with Love story
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ about our ideas of love?
Week 5: Whole Body Health
- Too Young video
- Swapping Juices & Sexual Exposure Chart
- Why Teens are at Increased Risk for STDs/STIs
- STD/STI Definitions
- Are we all at Risk for AIDS? HIV/AIDS Mythbusters
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ about our whole body health?
Week 6: Healthy Relationships
- The Crowded Bed
- Icing the Cake: the essential ingredients of a healthy relationship
- Talk vs. Text: Barriers to Effective Communication
- Friendship, Dating & Love: what is dating? Why date? Can we delay dating?
- Creating 6 Different Group Dates: to explore healthy, fun group date options
- The Dating Bill of Rights: guidelines and responsibilities
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ in order to form healthier connections?
Week 7: Violence Prevention
- Teen Dating Violence: State Mandate and Power & Control Wheel
- Know the Law on sexual assault, sexting, and cyber bullying
- Local Resource Cards
- Defining Boundaries with Blindfold visual
- Bullying & Suicide Prevention
- Role Play: Refusal Skills
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ in order to ensure we stay safe?
Week 8: Hopes & Dreams
- Cowboy Shuffle: success sequencing
- PIESSF: Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social, Financial consequences of sex too soon
- Freedoms You Can Enjoy
- Hallway of Hopes & Dreams
- Spouse List
- Post Paperwork
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ about our choices in order to get the life we dream of? It’s never too late to shake it up & start over with healthier decisions!
Middle School Program
Week 1: Goals
- Intro to Program
- Would You Rather: decision making skills
- Personal Strengths: what makes you unique? What are your personal strengths?
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ about our view of ourselves & our goals?
Week 2: Influences
- Behavior Train: when behavior comes before the brain, what happens?
- Balloon Activity: using risk avoidance skills to overcome potential obstacles to success
- Handout: Media’s Influence on Me
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ about the way we deal with unhealthy influences?
Week 3: Whole Body Health
- Popcorn icebreaker: what do we have in common with others?
- PIESSF Definition: protecting ourselves Physically, Intellectually, Emotionally, Socially, Financially
- Avoiding STDs/STIs: Definitions and Matching
- Hallway of Dreams & Self-Sufficiency
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ about our whole body health?
Week 4: Violence Prevention
- Wright Family icebreaker
- Defining violence
- Teen Dating Violence Power & Control Wheel
- Refusal Skills Roleplay
- Local resources cards
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ in order to ensure we stay safe?
Week 5: Healthy Relationships
- Love vs. Infatuation
- Dating Bill of Rights
- Post Paperwork
- Etch a Sketch: what do we need to ‘shake up’ in order to form healthier connections? It’s never too late to shake it up & start over with better decisions!