Interagency Youth Working Group
This manual builds the capacity of youth-serving program managers with limited experience to design programs that respond to the sexual and reproductive health needs and rights of young people, and helps youth develop life skills and adopt healthy behaviors. (PROFAMILIA/Colombia and CEDPA, 2003)
Faith-Based Family Life Education Curricula
These curricula, including a participant handbook, are designed to work with adults; one curriculum is for a Christian audience and the other for a Muslim one. No other manuals like these exist. They provide a training curriculum for adults and faith-based professionals to learn how to communicate with youth about sexuality and reproductive health/HIV issues. In addition, a curriculum is available for working with youth directly, from a Christian perspective. The manuals encourage open discussion about sexuality, reproductive health, and HIV in the context of faith communities, using Bible and Quran verses. They are not designed to promote religion. (Family Health International/YouthNet, 2006-2007).
Girls' Success: Mentoring Guide for Life Skills (PDF, 118 pages, 8.9 MB)
This guide discusses mentoring girls to help them develop important life skills. Some of the topics covered include healthy living, inner strength, making good choices, reproductive health, and sexuality. The guide provides discussion questions about each topic and learning activities that can be conducted in mentoring sessions or when girls are in school or with their families. (Academy for Educational Development (AED) Center for Gender Equity, 2009)
HIV Counseling and Testing for Youth: A Manual for Providers (PDF, 496 KB)
This manual is designed for service providers and counselors working with youth. Approximately one-third of clients who seek HIV testing are youth, and these young people often have different needs than do adults. With this easy-to-use, spiral-bound booklet, service providers and counselors can improve their skills and assist youth with the difficult issue of HIV counseling and testing. The tool emphasizes integrated services with handy references and charts on contraceptives, other STIs, youth-friendly services, and other information. There is also a Training Guide to the manual. (Family Health International/YouthNet, 2005)
Learn without Fear—Youth in Action against Violence in Schools (33 pages, 2.3 MB)
Plan Germany brought together children from Colombia, Germany, Ecuador, India, the Philippines, Tanzania, and Uganda to create a manual with exercises and activities to address school violence. Activities include identifying areas in school grounds which are less safe, understanding stereotypes, and helping someone who has been hurt or bullied. (Plan International Deutschland, 2009)
My Changing Body: Fertility Awareness for Young People (PDF)
This spiral-bound guide is targeted at young people to help them understand the physical and emotional changes that accompany puberty. (Institute for Reproductive Health and Family Health International/YouthNet, 2003) This manual is also available in French (PDF, 2.57 MB) and Spanish (PDF, 2.45 MB).
Reproductive Health Services for Adolescents. Comprehensive Reproductive Health and Family Planning Training Curriculum: Module 16: Participant’s Guide (PDF, 1.57 MB)
This module includes sections to sensitize providers to the needs of adolescents and to prepare them to offer reproductive health services in a manner that is youth-friendly. It emphasizes dual protection against STI/HIV and pregnancy, safer sex, counseling, care for pregnant adolescents, and issues related to gender, sexual abuse, and sexual orientation. (Pathfinder, 2002
Reproductive Health of Young Adults Training Module
This Web-based training module is designed to increase the awareness and understanding of the reproductive health needs of young adults among policy-makers, program directors, program planners, and health care providers. The module has sections on overview issues, information and services young adults need, contraceptive options, and 4) issues regarding STI/HIV prevention and treatment. The modules can be used either as an interactive self-study program or as a participatory, group training experience with PowerPoint slideshow (95 slides), presenter’s notes, and other resources. (Family Health International, 2003)
Theatre-Based Techniques for Youth Peer Education: A Training Manual (PDF, 770 KB)
This 100-page training manual provides an overview of using theater in health education. It contains four peer theater training workshops, a series of theater games and exercises that can be used in trainings, and information on developing and building a peer theater program. It is a collaboration between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Family Health International, produced for the Youth Peer Education Network (Y-PEER), a project coordinated by UNFPA. (Family Health International/YouthNet 2005)
The WHO Orientation Programme on Adolescent Health for Health-Care Providers
This comprehensive program for providers contains a planning and preparation section and nine training modules covering the meaning of adolescence, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, adolescent-friendly health services, sexually transmitted infections in adolescents, care of adolescent during pregnancy and childbirth, unsafe abortion in adolescents, pregnancy prevention, and other topics. Some modules have multiple sessions. Only selected modules are available online, but the entire module can be ordered on a CD ROM or in printed form. (World Health Organization, 2004)
Training Guide for HIV Counseling and Testing for Youth: A Manual for Providers (PDF, 919 KB).
This guide is designed to train providers to use HIV Counseling and Testing for Youth: A Manual for Providers. The guide emphasizes an integrated approach to counseling youth during HIV testing. The training features interactive exercises, participant practice sessions, PowerPoint slides, and other training tools. This guide is intended to be used to train experienced HIV counselors how to offer counseling and testing specifically for youth and how to integrate HIV counseling and testing and other reproductive health services. For more information about the guide, click here. (Family Health International, International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region, and Population Services International, 2008)
Youth-Friendly Pharmacy Program Implementation Kit CD-ROM
The comprehensive kit includes the only available training curriculum for pharmacy personnel. Available online in five segments, it provides tools for all aspects of developing and implementing a project that works with pharmacies on youth reproductive health issues. (Path, 2004)
Youth-Friendly Services: A Manual for Service Providers
This comprehensive curriculum covers biases toward serving youth, provider values, adolescent development, contraception and STIs/HIV, effective communication and counseling skills, and other issues. It talks about creating youth-friendly services through a system called COPE (client-oriented, provider efficient). You can download segments of the manual. (EngenderHealth, 2002)
Youth Participation Guide: Assessment, Planning, and Implementation
This multi-part guide seeks to increase the level of meaningful youth participation in reproductive health (RH) and HIV/AIDS programming at an institutional and programmatic level. The target audience includes senior and middle management, program managers, staff involved in implementing activities, and youth who may be engaged at all levels of an organization's work. The package is available in the following PDFs. (Family Health International/YouthNet, 2005)
Youth Peer Education: Training of Trainers Manual (PDF, 3.28 MB)
This manual is designed to be used to prepare master-level peer education trainers. It uses participatory techniques based on a variety of theoretical frameworks to ensure that future trainers are skilled and confident in their abilities to train peer educators and serve as informed resources for their peers. The manual resulted from a collaboration between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Family Health International. It was produced for the Youth Peer Education Network (Y-PEER), a project coordinated by UNFPA. (2005)
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