WA PREP – Adult Prep Topics, Simplified

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Why:

  1. It is a requirement of national PREP to include any 3 of 6 adult preparation subjects with your EBI.
  2. Youth need more skills to be successful adults who form positive relationships than just saying no to sex or using contraception to prevent pregnancy and STIs.
  3. Research supports that sex education works best when parent-child communication, life skills, and healthy relationships are incorporated.

Choose 2 out of 6 options (Cardea Recommends):

  1. Healthy Life Skills – Included in all EBIs already
  2. Healthy Relationships
  3. Parent-Child Communication
  4. Adolescent Development
  5. Educational and Career Success
  6. Financial Literacy

Nationally, PREP partners choose Healthy Relationships, Adolescent Development, and Healthy Life Skills most often.

Subject / Meaning, Explanation / Examples / Where to Find in EBIs
Healthy Life Skills / The World Health Organization (WHO) defines life skills as “abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life.”
Life skills include, but are not limited to, communication, decision-making, coping, self-management, goal-setting, and avoidance of unhealthy behaviors. / Sub-Topics
  • Self-Efficacy and Motivation
  • Strengths-Based programming
  • Interactive Learning/Apply Skills Outside of Classroom
  • Community-involved approaches
  • Age-appropriate skills-based programming
/ Note: ALL EBIs contain Healthy Life Skills.
Here are some examples:
  • Making Proud Choices: Module 8-Enhancing refusal and Negotiation Skills. Role Play
  • MPC (Out of Home Care): Module 9-Developing Condom Use and Negotiation Skills DVD
  • SHARP: Module 2: Self- Efficacy and Benefits. Risky Behaviors Video
  • Draw the Line: Lesson 6 Reduce Your Risk

Curricula
  • Botvin’s Life Skills Training Program (LST)
  • Reconnecting Youth: A Peer Group Approach to Building Life Skills (RY)
  • American Indian Life skills Development/Zuni Life Skills Development2

Subject / Meaning, Explanation / Examples /
  • Where to Find in EBIs

Healthy Relationships / Relationships are interactions between people that are ongoing, voluntary, and mutually acknowledged. Healthy relationships are those relationships that are based on trust, honesty, and respect. Romantic relationships involve a unique dimension that is marked by affection, which contains the potential to become abusive.
Factors associated with healthy relationships include: Trust, Honesty, Support, Open and honest communication, Flexibility, Fun, Enjoyment, Respect, Equality, Limit setting
Unhealthy: Cheating, Dishonesty, Older partner, Jealousy, Emotional and/or physical abuse, Selfishness, Over-dependency, Relationship revolves only around sex, Disrespect, Controlling / Qualities of a healthy relationship:
  • Information about gender-based stereotypes (including sexual double standards)
  • How to show caring and affection without having sex
  • Conflict management skills
  • Parent-child communication
  • Communication skills
  • Limit setting, and navigating different limits in relationships
  • Skills to develop healthy relationships
  • Identifying unhealthy relationships
  • Skills to safely end unhealthy relationships
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  • SiHLE: Workshop 4 – Relationships and Power
  • Draw the Line (Grade 8): Lesson 3-Difficult Moments: Activity 3.3. Role Play
  • Cuidate: Module 6-Building Negotiation and Refusal Skills. Activity E-Discussion
  • FLASH High School: Lesson 6 Healthy Relationships

Curricula
  • Sistas Informing, Healing, Living, and Empowering (SiHLE)
  • Program TALC (Teens and Adults Learning to Communicate)
  • Teen Outreach Program (TOP)

Subject / Meaning, Explanation / Examples / Where to Find in EBIs
Parent-Child Communication / Positive communication between parents and children greatly helps young people to establish individual values and to make healthy decisions. Positive parent child communication can help adolescents have healthy and responsible sexual decision-making by providing accurate information and by creating open lines of communication.
If children receive a negative message about sexuality from their parents, they will be less likely to turn to their parents to discuss sexual matters as they get older. In this way, open parent-child communication may be an effective prevention tool. / Factors Impacting Parent Child Communication
  • Parents’ knowledge of the content (sexuality, sexual risk behaviors, development)
  • Parents’ attitudes and beliefs about adolescent sexuality
  • Parents’ communication skills
  • Parents’ openness and comfort talking about sexuality
  • Parents’ modeling of their own sexual behavior
  • Content and timing of the discussion
  • Adolescent’s ability or willingness to hear and retain what parents say
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  • DTL/RTL – Lesson 4.4: Parent Homework
  • RTR – Lesson 3.1: Talk to Your Parents (about sex and relationships) Homework
  • SHARP: Class 3-Refusals. Parent/Student at home activity
  • FLASH High School: Lesson 7 - Family Homework: Talking About Sexual Violence Prevention

Curricula
  • Aban Aya Youth Project
  • Children’s AID Society
  • It’s Your Game: Keep it Real
  • Project TALC
  • Promoting Health Among Teens
  • Raising Healthy Children
  • Reducing the Risk

Subject / Meaning, Explanation / Examples / Where to Find in EBIs
Adolescent Development / Extends beyond the physiological changes that occur in adolescence to include cognitive, emotional, social, sexual, identity formation, and spiritual change and growth.
Programming is framed by “5 C’s”: competence, confidence, connections, character, and caring/compassion. The 5 C’s allow development of core assets through experience, learning, and practice of skills that will lead to healthy adolescent development. / Sub-Topics
  • Youth Empowerment
  • Fostering a group or community identity
  • Gender-based empowerment and community awareness
  • Mentorship
  • Connections to the community
/
  • MPC (Out of Home Care): Module 2-Relationsihps and the Consequences of Sex. Myth Worksheet
  • Reducing the Risk (Building Skills to Prevent Pregnancy STD & HIV): Ineffective/Effective Version. Activity 3.4/3.5
  • Draw the Line (Grade 6): Lesson 4- The Roleplay Challenge. Activity 4.3: Changing the Subject and Walking Away
  • FLASH High School: Lesson 15 - Improving School Health
  • FLASH High School: Lesson 13 – Testing for HIV & Other STDs. Activity 4: Students research local clinics that offer testing

Curricula
  • Aban Aya Youth Project
  • Woodrock Youth Development Program

Subject / Meaning, Explanation / Examples / Where to Find in EBIs
Educational and Career Success / A focus on development skills including employment preparation, independent living, financial self-sufficiency, and work-place productivity.
These programsimprove academic performance, increase school attendance engagement, and school completion. / Sub-Topics
  • Mentorship
  • Case Management
  • Academic support and/or homework help
  • Activities focused on building skills related to academic and employment success
  • Transition Planning for Teens with Individualized Education Plans
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  • None of our EBIs include this topic.
  • You may have other curricula or programs already happening that satisfy this topic.

Curricula
  • Aban Aya Youth Project
  • Children’s Aid Society (CAS) – Carrera Program
  • FOCUS
  • Teen Outreach Program
  • Dropout Prevention (Job Corp, JOBSTART, New Chance, Summer Training and Education Program, and YouthBuild)
  • Career Beginnings
  • Upward Bound

Subject / Meaning, Explanation / Examples / Where to Find in EBIs
Financial Literacy / Financial education is the term used to define efforts to improve financial literacy, and includes programs that seek to improve understandings related to personal finance.
While experts do not agree on a uniform definition of the term financial literacy, in general, the term implies a level of basic knowledge or competence about financial concepts such as the ability to balance a checkbook, manage a credit card, prepare a budget, take out a loan, and buy insurance. / Successful Elements
  • Focus on basic savings, credit management, home ownership and/or retirement planning
  • Tailor to the target audience, taking into account language, culture, age and experience
  • Incorporate an effective financial literacy program at the beginning or end of other evidence-based programs so as not to interfere with the core components of the evidence-based program.
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  • None of our EBIs include this topic.
  • You may have other curricula or programs already happening that satisfy this topic.

Curricula
  • The Children’s Aid Society (CAS) Carrera Program
  • High School Financial Planning Program
  • Money Talks
  • Real Money, Real World