Health and Sexuality

Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy®
An age-phased program providing appropriate skills, insights, values, personal tools, peer support, and accurate information.  Based on developmental stages, research, and reality, this abstinence-plus program centers on interactive, informal learning using a variety of role-plays, games, skits, presentations, videos, and other engaging activities to guide girls and young women in learning key information and gaining important skills that will increase their motivation and ability to engage in healthy relationships and become sexually healthy adults. The key is motivating girls to make smart choices—--either choosing to postpone sex or, if not, using effective protection against pregnancy and diseases.

Growing Together
The program is fun and filled with lots of activities! The eight hour program gives parents time to talk together without their daughters and lots of time for parents/daughter exercises. Growing Together is a program designed to help caregivers and their daughters ages 9 to 11 talk more comfortably about values, growing up, PUBERTY, sexual information, and the importance of communication.  The overall goal of the Growing Together workshop is to help adults and the girls they care about learn new information and develop the skills they need to talk about sensitive topics, including: 

• Family and personal values
• The changes that occur during puberty
• Adolescent sexual development and feelings
• Values and expectations for teen sexual behavior.

Will Power/Won't Power®
Designed for girls ages 12-14. It is a 10-session program in which girls learn how to say no to sex as they enter the most pressure-sensitive adolescent years. Interactive sessions center on:

• Values
• Relationships
• Reproductive system
• Female health & hygiene
• Sexual myths vs. reality
• Assertiveness
• Communication skills
• Identifying & resisting sexual pressures (including media and peers)
• Sexual decision-making
• Avoiding risky situations
• Positive aspects of abstinence
• Power of a support system

Taking Care of Business
For girls ages 15–18 .   In this 10 session program, older teens learn about their sexuality, acquire the skills to avoid pregnancy and begin to chart their futures through educational and career planning.  In this program girls learn:

• How to recognize and move beyond limiting sex-role stereotypes for women
• How to use values as a basis for positive decision-making
• Assertiveness, refusal and relationship skills
• How to avoid risky behavior, pregnancy, STDs and HIV through abstinence and smart choices
• The facts on contraception and protection
• Communication and success skills to achieve career goals.

Girls Incorporated created Taking Care of Business® because we know that girls won't put information about contraceptives to use unl≠ess they care enough about themselves to plan their futures on their own terms.  With new-found skills and peer support, girls who have participated in the program are choosing to not have sex until they're ready and to use birth control effectively when they do.

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