Curriculum

The Teen PEP curriculum is designed to enable high schools and community-based organizations to use a peer education approach to provide students with medically accurate sexual health information and equip them with the skills they need to make healthy decisions. The Teen PEP curriculum uses a hands-on, activity-based structure which provides students with opportunities for discussion and skill development.

Specific skills addressed throughout the Teen PEP curriculum include:

Decision-Making Resisting Peer Pressure Communication with Peers Communication with Parents Communication with Partners Problem-Solving

Negotiation and Refusal Skills Competence in Interpersonal Relationships Self-Management Active Listening Team Building

The curriculum includes two primary resources:

1. The Teen PEP Course Curriculum

- is the curriculum used by the program advisor team to teach the daily Teen PEP peer leadership and sexuality education course for junior and senior peer educators. This 16-unit (450+ pages) handbook enables peer educators to become knowledgeable in sexual health content and develop leadership skills. Peer educators learn group facilitation, active listening, team-building, public speaking, and presentation skills and apply these skills along with their knowledge of sexual health issues to effectively conduct prevention education workshops with their peers.

The Teen PEP Course Curriculum includes the following units:

• Getting Reacquainted
• Team Communication
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Understanding Gender
• Puberty
• Postponing Sexual Involvement
• Birth Control Methods
• Understanding and Preventing HIV Transmission
• Understanding and Preventing Other Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Communicating with Parents
• Understanding Sexual Harassment
• Homophobia Reduction
• Understanding the Effects of Alcohol and Other Drugs
• Dating Violence Prevention
• Date Rape Prevention
• Closure and Celebration

2. The Teen PEP Outreach Workshops

- is the curriculum used by the Teen PEP peer educators to conduct workshops with their peers. The Outreach Workshops resource includes ten complete peer-to-peer sexual health workshops. For each workshop, objectives, attention-getting skits, skill-building activities, discussion questions, and workshop evaluation forms are provided. This resource also includes a Family Night workshop which is designed to open the lines of communication between parents and their children. Peer educators conduct the Family Night workshop for parents and other family members, school personnel, and community members.

The Teen PEP Outreach Workshop binder includes the following workshops:

• Let's Wait Awhile: Postponing Sexual Involvement
• Later, Baby: Pregnancy Prevention
• Break the Silence: HIV/AIDS Prevention
• Don't Pass It On: Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Unwelcome Advances: Sexual Harassment Prevention
• Bridges of Respect: Homophobia Reduction
• Sex on the Rocks: Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Sexual Decision-Making
• Power Plays: Date Rape Prevention
• Break the Cycle: Dating Violence Prevention
• When It's Time to Change: Puberty Education
• Talk To Me: A Family Night Workshop

Purchasing the Teen PEP Curriculum

The Teen PEP curriculum is an essential component of the Teen PEP model and is not available for purchase as a stand-alone product. Sites that purchase the full package of training and consultation services provided by the Teen PEP team will also receive the Teen PEP curriculum.