Sexual Risk and Avoidance Education (SRAE) Expansion The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) awarded McMillen Health additional funding to serve all five Fort Wayne Community High Schools with our eight-module promising practice, Choices Today, Options Tomorrow (CTOT) , and to continue to expand in the rural counties of DeKalb, Grant, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, and Whitley. The implementation includes serving at least 450 youth in 6th-8th grades with Promoting Health Among Teens (PHAT) , an evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention curriculum, and another 1,750 youth in 9th-12th grades with CTOT. We successfully served 2,337 students, which is 137 more than anticipated! This year’s grant expansion included adding additional hours of education to SRAE programming. We provided additional education in the form of eight digital handouts. Each contains QR codes to specific videos related to the handout topic. Eight total videos were produced for this year’s project. All newly developed resources were translated to Burmese and Spanish. Feedback from students participating in SRAE programming:
“I liked the presentation over boundaries and how to resist things. I think a lot of people need to learn more about respecting and placing boundaries and this presentation did a good job showing that. My favorite activity was the one where the liquid was put in cups, mixed, and then some turned pink. It was interactive was fun and it really showed how fast and unexpectedly STD’s/ STI’s can spread.”
Student at Tippecanoe Valley High School
Student at Snider High School in Fort Wayne Community Schools
“I liked the parenting presentation; it was shocking the cost of things. New information I learned was the cervix stretches from being really small to really big to push out the baby. The hospital cost when having a baby is really high.”
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