Sisters Saving Sisters Training of Facilitators

Overview

Sisters Saving Sisters is a 5-module curriculum designed to empower young, teenage women to change their behavior in ways that will reduce their risk of becoming infected with HIV and other STDs, and significantly decrease their chances of being involved in unintended pregnancies. This curriculum acknowledges that abstinence is the most effective way to eliminate these risks, but also encourages the practice of safer sex and condom use.

Curriculum

The curriculum has 5 hours of content divided into five 60-minute modules,  designed to be taught by classroom teachers or family life educators.

The curriculum includes a series of fun and interactive learning experiences designed to increase participation and help young teenage women understand the kind of faulty reasoning and decision-making that can lead to HIV, other STDs and unintended pregnancy.

Activities are designed to address the underlying attitudes and beliefs that many young women have about condoms, make them feel comfortable practicing condom use, address their concerns about the negative effects of practicing safer sex, and build their condom-use skills as well as their ability to comfortably negotiate safer-sex practices. The activities involve viewing culturally and gender-sensitive video clips, playing games, brainstorming, role-playing, engaging in skill-building exercises, and small-group discussions that are designed to build group cohesion and enhance the learning experience. Each activity is brief, and most are active exercises that require the participants to interact with one another. This maintains their interest and attention in a way that lectures or lengthy group discussions do not.

This is a contracted training for Fact Forward partners. 

If you are interested in additional information about this training and the possibility of having one in your area please contact our Training Department at training@factforward.org or 803-771-7700.