Table 2 FOY + ImPACT Adaptions
Original FOY + ImPACT Titles and Objectives | Adapted FOY + ImPACT Titles and Objectives | Key Changes | |
|---|---|---|---|
Session 1 | We’re All in This Together Establish a cohesive group, by setting group agreements and participating in a group cohesion activity. Begin learning skills for decision making | Breathe: We’re All in This Together Establish group cohesion and begin to learn skills for healthy decision making. | Replaced family tree with Circle of Influencers Replaced S.O.D.A. with B.E.S.T. model |
Session 2 | Risks and Values Examine risk behaviors and why young people may feel invincible or invulnerable to understand how this can place them at risk for HIV/STD or unplanned pregnancy. Identify personal values through discussion, ranking and voting activities | Breathe: Knowing My Standards Learn facts about sex, pregnancy, STIs and HIV, and use the information to establish personal standards for one’s sexual health behavior. | Added discussion of community level influences on decision-making |
Session 3 | Educate Yourself: Obtaining Information Learn ways to obtain information in order to make good decisions by applying the decision-making model and researching answers to questions | Educate Yourself: Sex Ed 101 Learn information about sexual behavior risks, condoms and contraceptives that enable one to maintain safer sex standards. | Revised session to focus on sexual health knowledge and safe sex skills building |
Session 4 | Educate Yourself: Examining Consequences Learn to weigh the positive and negative consequences of options as they make decisions. | Educate Yourself: Finding Information Learn and practice ways to obtain sexual health information. | Incorporated information and activities for finding reliable information from trusted people and resources. |
Session 5 | Build Skills: Communication Learn communication and negotiation skills to assist in carrying out responsible decisions. | Select & Take Action: Communicating My Values & Consent Learn communication and negotiation skills to assist in carrying out responsible decisions. | Integrated conversations about consent and sexual violence across multiple activities |
Session 6 | Sexual Health and Showing you Care Without Having Sex Use roleplays to explore various ways to show they care without having sex and will learn information about sexual health. | Select & Take Action: More Than Sex Explore ways to demonstrate care and establish intimacy without having sex. | Removed HIV transmission game and added activities to help participants think of non-sexual ways to show affection. |
Session 7 | Attitudes and Skills for Sexual Health Learn attitudes and skills that support sexual health through listening to a speaker, completing a goal-setting activity and roleplaying refusal and negotiation skills. | B.E.S.T. Decision for you: Power to Decide Observe the consequences of decision-making through listening to a guest speaker. Set personal goals for the future. | Reframed goal setting activity to specifically focus on STI, HIV, unintended pregnancy and substance use. Used the BEST model to set goals |
Session 8 | Review and Community Project Build self-efficacy about HIV/STD prevention through analyzing their concerns and how they can take responsibility, testing their HIV knowledge, affirming each other and planning community projects. | B.E.S.T. Decision for you: Review and Community Project Build pregnancy and HIV/STI prevention self-efficacy. Review and teach-back key lessons learned. | Shortened session by focusing on reviewing content from the previous session and integrating the information learned by tasking participants to develop a HIV/STI or pregnancy prevention social media campaign. |