To support the goals and objectives of the APP program, each health district in Idaho is implementing the Reducing the Risk (RTR) curriculum within partnering schools.
- Reducing the Risk:
- is a skills-based curriculum designed to help teens prevent pregnancy and the transmission of STI’s, including HIV
- Geared toward students ages 15-18 years old
To learn more about the Reducing the Risk curriculum, click here: Reducing the Risk_info_2022
- Abstinence is the best and safest choice
- Youth should avoid unprotected sex
- Youth should always use protection if they have sex
- Risk-assessment
- Communication
- Decision-making and planning skills
- Refusal strategies and delay tactics
- Rigorously evaluated to have a measurable impact on behavior
- Increased knowledge
- Increased parent-child communication
- Evaluate the risks and lasting consequences of becoming a teen parent or getting an STI
- Recognize that abstaining from sex or using protection are the only ways to avoid pregnancy and STI’s
- Demonstrate effective communication skills for remaining abstinent or avoiding unprotected sex
- Abstinence – not having sex
- Avoiding high-risk situations
- Preventing HIV and other STI’s
- HIV risk behaviors
- Sticking with abstinence and protection
- Refusal skills and delay tactics practiced through roleplays
- The more students effectively say no to sex, or to unprotected sex, the more likely they will be to use these skills in real life
