Sexual Education to 12th grade

students to increase condom use during sexual

intercourse
Program Plan for Sexual Behaviors at Westside High School in Health Zone 4 of Duval
County Jacksonville, Florida

Cire Ba, Sarah Clark and Margaret Cruz

Agenda

INTRODUCTION PLANNING MODEL PROGRAM GOAL CULTURAL EVIDENCE BASED

AND NEEDS AND OBJECTIVES AWARENESS PROGRAM
ASSESSMENT
 • Preventing sexually transmitted diseases and
human immunodeficiency virus is a public
health priority
• Twenty million cases per year in the United
States
• Most cases are among the age group of 15- 24
Introduction years old
• First sexual intercourse by 18 years old
• More sexual partners from a young age
• Decreased condom use among adolescent
population
• Increased risk of contracting an STD or HIV
 • Duval County: Jacksonville, FL
• STD rate is 59% higher than the rate in the state
• Health Zone 4
• Only 45% of high school students reported condom
use during their last sexual intercourse

Needs • Westside High School

• Lowest rate of condom use reported at Westside
Assessment High School
• High school seniors
• Increased risk of having multiple sexual partners
Overcoming Barriers

1 2 3
Predisposing Factors Enabling Factors Reinforcing Factors
• Education Level • Distribution of condoms • Social Support
• Individual Beliefs • Resources for obtaining • Normalizing condoms
• Familial Beliefs condoms
 • The threat:
• Contracting an STD infection and/or teen
pregnancy.

Health Belief • Benefits of avoiding the threat:

• Decreasing an individual’s chance of contracting
Model an STD or an HIV infection.
• Factors That influence decision:
• Social Support
• Having the resources in obtaining condoms
 Reduce the rates of unprotected
sex among 12th grade students at
Westside high school by
abstaining from sex or using
Program goal condoms to prevent unintended
pregnancy and the spread of HIV
and other STD’s/STI’s.
Program Objectives
Impact learner objective: Immediately after the program 12th grade students
at Westside High School will be aware of situations that can lead to
unprotected sex, unintended pregnancy and HIV or other STD’s/STI’s.
Impact behavioral objective: Three months after the program there will be a
25% increase among 12th grade students at Westside High School
abstaining from sex, and a 25% increase in sexually active students that
report condom use with their last sexual intercourse.
Outcome objective: Six months after the program 75% of sexually active 12th
grade students at Westside High School will report using a condom with
their last sexual intercourse.
Cultural Awareness

• Race Demographic
- 66% Black
- 16% White
- 12% Hispanic
- 2% Asian
• Age Demographic
- 17 – 18-Year-old High School
Students
 Cultural Awareness
To ensure the program is culturally aware and culturally
sensitive.
1) Prioritize a search for minority health educators.
2) All Health educators will have required cultural
diversity and inclusion training.
3) Diverse individuals will be showcased in the images
used.
• Advertising
• Education
4) Surveys and handouts will be created in both English and
Spanish.
5) Facilitated dialogue and group activities.
 • Provides students with knowledge, as well as
interpersonal and communication skills
• Prevent unintended pregnancy
Evidence • Prevent the transmission of Sexually transmitted
infections (STI's) and HIV
based • Benefits
program: • Reduce rates of unprotected sex
• Increased condom use
Reducing the • Increased use of contraceptives
• Delay initiation of intercourse
Risk (RTR) • Positive impact of pregnancy incidences
• Reduction in reports of having sex without a
birth control method.

Etr. (2020). Reducing the Risk. Retrieved from https://www.etr.org/ebi/programs/reducing-the-risk/

 16 lessons, taught 2-3 times/week for 45-
60 minutes.

Activities that make things personal

Reducing The
Risk (RTR)
communication and decision-making skills

practice applying skills in difficult

circumstances

Etr. (2020). Reducing the Risk. Retrieved from https://www.etr.org/ebi/programs/reducing-the-risk/

Thank you
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