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Teenage pregnancy in the Dominican Republic is a complex problem and of high concern to the national agenda. Available data indicate that 22% of women between 12-19 years have been pregnant. This rate is 34% higher than the average for Latin America and the Caribbean. Teenage pregnancy is concentrated in specific areas of the country – the southern provinces and central Cibao - as well as among poorer people. The fact that the indicator (adolescent fertility rate) has shown little variation in the last three decades makes the picture complex. …
Indigenous girls in rural areas live in the most extreme poverty and make up the least educated groups in Peru. These girls face numerous constraints to obtaining an education. Enrollment rates are lower for girls in rural areas, and their grade repetition rates are higher than those for boys. Adolescence is particularly difficult, as girls face a number of risks during this time. Once they begin menstruation, completing their primary school education is a formidable challenge, and opportunities for advancing to secondary school are limited. …
School administrators and teachers face difficult decisions about how best to use school resources in order to meet academic achievement goals. Many are hesitant to adopt prevention curricula that are not focused directly on academic achievement. Yet, some have hypothesized that prevention curricula can remove barriers to learning and, thus, promote achievement. This study examined relationships between school levels of student substance use and risk and protective factors that predict adolescent problem behaviors and achievement test performance in Washington State.
In recent years, Latin America and the Caribbean have seen progress in stemming the impact of HIV. Increased access to treatment, rapid testing technologies, coordinated prevention and education efforts, and the virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission have helped reduce the overall HIV prevalence rate. While encouraging, this figure masks serious, localized epidemics. While HIV prevalence is generally low, prevalence among key affected populations—such as men who have sex with men, transgender women, and sex workers—is particularly high. …
Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) encapsulates the required body of knowledge in a comprehensive life-skill educational programme that can be integrated across the curriculum. This is the media through which teachers can impact and reinforce the positive behaviours that young people are expected to adopt and display. Beyond that, through increased awareness, students are given a safe and open environment in which they can address a wide range of issues affecting young people. …
Beyond Barriers explores the adolescent sexual and reproductive health context in three Central American countries: Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The publication provides case studies of our work in each country, synthesizes the latest research regarding the barriers to providing young people with sexual and reproductive health information and services, and makes recommendations for addressing the barriers. …
La educación que reciben las y los estudiantes en el sistema educativo, debe contribuir a su formación integral, la misma que incluye los aspectos: físico, psicológico, social, emocional, intelectual, ético, moral y sexual, y para lo cual se requiere de acciones de orientación, acompañamiento y guía de parte del personal docente, así como de un entorno escolar promotor del desarrollo saludable. …
1. Perspectiva de garantía de derechos 2. Marco normativo 3. ¿Qué es violencia basada en el género y violencia contra la mujer? 4. ¿Qué tipos existen? 5. ¿Qué efectos tiene? 6. ¿Cómo promover el ejercicio de derechos? 7. ¿Cómo prevenir la violencia basada en el género y violencia contra la mujer? 8. ¿Cómo detectar una situación de…? 9. ¿Qué hacer ante una situación de violencia contra la mujer? 10. Sugerencias utiles para el manual de convivencia 11. Glosario
1. Perspectiva de garantía de derechos; 2. Marco normativo; 3. ¿Qué es violencia sexual? 4. ¿Qué tipos existen? 5. ¿Qué efectos tiene?6. ¿Cómo promover el ejercicio de derechos? 7. ¿Cómo prevenir la violencia sexual? 8. ¿Cómo detectar una situación de violencia sexual? 9. ¿Qué hacer ante una situación de violencia sexual? 10. Sugerencias utiles para el manual de convivencia. 11. Glosario
1. Perspectiva de garantia de derechos 2. Marco normativo 3. ¿Que es acoso escolar? 4. ¿Que tipos de acoso escolar existen? 5. ¿Qué efectos tiene el acoso escolar? 6. ¿Quienes intervienen en el acoso escolar? 7. ¿Como promover el ejercicio de derechos? 8. ¿Cómo prevenir el acoso escolar? 9. ¿Como detectar una situacion de acoso escolar? 10. ¿Que hacer ante una situacion de acoso escolar? 11. Sugerencias utiles para el manual de convivencia 12. Glosario Anexo 1 Implicaciones legales del acoso escolar
Purpose: A literature review was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of external contributors (anyone other than a teacher at the school) in delivering school‐based drug, alcohol and tobacco education (substance use education) programmes. Design/methodology/approach: The review focused upon literature published from 1990 onwards in English. Published reports were identified via electronic searches, supplemented by hand searching of relevant journals. Relevant organisations and individuals were contacted to identify low circulation, difficult to acquire (grey) literature. …
Fidelity of program implementation under real-world conditions is a critical issue in the dissemination of evidence-based school substance use prevention curricula. Program effects are diminished when programs are implemented with poor fidelity. The authors assessed five domains of fidelity—adherence, exposure (dosage), quality of delivery, participant responsiveness and program differentiation (lack of contamination from other programs)—in a subset of respondents (N = 342) from a national random sample of public schools with middle school grades (N = 1721). …
An emerging model for sexuality education is the rights-based approach, which unifies discussions of sexuality, gender norms, and sexual rights to promote the healthy sexual development of adolescents. A rigorous evaluation of a rights-based intervention for a broad population of adolescents in the U.S. has not previously been published. This paper evaluates the immediate effects of the Sexuality Education Initiative (SEI) on hypothesized psychosocial determinants of sexual behavior.
It is widely recognized that teacher training affects the fidelity with which evidence-based substance use prevention curricula are implemented. This article presents the results of a 2005 survey of teachers from a nationally representative sample of 1721 public middle schools in the US (78.1% response rate).It measured fidelity along two dimensions (adherence and dose) and also assessed the number of hours, recency, and perceived effectiveness of teachers’ training, as well as the degree to which adherence was emphasized during training. …
International policy agreements, along with emerging evidence about factors influencing programme effectiveness, have led to calls for a shift in sexuality education toward an approach that places gender norms and human rights at its heart. Little documentation exists, however, about the degree to which this shift is actually taking place on the ground or what it entails. Field experiences in using new curriculum tools, such as It's All One, offer one lens onto these questions. To gain a sense of practitioners' experience with this tool, a two-part exercise was conducted. …
