Choose Life - Guide for Peer Educators and Youth Leaders for Helping Youth Develop Skills for Healthy Relationships
Making changes in behavior requires more than just new knowledge and new attitudes; new skills are required. Six skills have been identified to help youth make the transition towards healthy behavior change. After every few sessions, a new skill is introduced. Youth are given time to discuss, practice the skill, and make commitments to keep them. As youth demonstrate success with each skill, their confidence grows (as well as their self-efficacy). This encouragement helps to move them towards a long-term commitment for a healthy relationship choice.
The Choose Life Guide for Peer Educators and Youth Leaders provides detailed lesson plans for interactive learning sessions. It uses an easy-to-follow format with many helpful reminders and notes. The activities are designed to make learning fun and active. They include stories, learning games and activities.
This guide focuses on youth, male and female, aged 15 and older.
Table of Contents
Session 1 • Being Yourself, Being Content
Session 2 •Good Communication
Session 3 •Communicating a message with confidence [Skill 1]
Session 4 •Choosing a Good Mentor
Session 5 •Making Good Choices [Skill 2]
Session 6 •Mentor and Me Meeting
Session 7 •Understanding Sexuality
Session 8 •Communicating your Relationship Boundaries [Skill 3]
Session 9 •Overcoming Obstacles to Abstinence [Skill 4]
Session 10 •I Am Able!
Session 11 •Right to Say “No” to Sexual Advances
Session 12 •Saying no with your voice, body and actions [Skill 5]
Session 13 •Consequences of Misused Sexuality
Session 14 •Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
Session 15 •Does Abstinence Work?
Session 16 •Making a Commitment
Session 17 •Risk Reduction Options
Commitment to Abstinence
Session 18 •Strategies for Maintaining Abstinence
Session 19 •Maintaining My Commitments
Session 20 •Caring For People Living With HIV
Session 21 • Gender Roles and [Skill 6]
Discussion Guide for Choose Life Sessions
Talking to Youth Guide
Resources
Resource A: Additional Information about HIV and AIDS
Resource B: Three-Part Role-play for HIV Prevention
You can download a sample electronic version here and then purchase a hard copy from the MAR Regional Discipleship Ministries Office.
| File | Action |
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| Choose Life - sample | Download |