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Lesson 9.6: Preventing STIs

Lesson Goals

  • Learn correct use of condoms.
  • Identify the need for consistent use of condoms.
  • Understand STIs, including their symptoms and transmission.

Connecting the Lessons

Builds on Lesson 9.3: Sex, Gender and Shared Responsibility, and Lesson 9.5: Comprehensive Protection Methods; connects to Lesson 9.7: Sexual Risks and Low-Risk Intimacy.

SEL Skills Addressed

  • Social awareness
  • Relationship skills
  • Responsible decision making

Logic Model Determinant(s)

  • Increase positive attitudes toward condoms and/or other protection methods.
  • Address values around abstinence and sex.
  • Address attitudes about abstinence and sex.
  • Address perceptions of peer norms about perceived male responsibility for pregnancy prevention.
  • Promote SEL skills to increase use of condoms and/or other protection methods.
  • Use SEL skills to increase assertive communication in relationships
  • Increase communication with parents and other caring adults.
  • Increase knowledge of how STIs are transmitted.
  • Increase knowledge of how drugs and alcohol can affect decision making around sexual behavior.
  • Increase awareness of consequences when condoms and/or other protection methods are not used.
  • Increase knowledge of correct and consistent use of condoms and other protection methods.