Session 7: The Skills and Wills to Make my Own Choice
Session Overview
Youth will learn attitudes and skills that support sexual health through listening to a teen parent, establishing safer sex guidelines, and role playing refusal and negotiation skills.
Activity 1: Opening Ritual and Review
At the start of the session, group members will be able to recall key highlights from Session 6.
Activity 2: STDs and Unplanned Pregnancy Review
At the end of the session, group members will better understand STDs and unplanned pregnancy..
Activity 3: Teen Parent Speaker: The Life Experiences and Consequences
At the end of the session, group members will be able to discuss how being a teen parent can change a person’s life.
Activity 4: Keeping my Values: My Safer Sex Guidelines
At the end of the session, group members will have established their own guidelines that they will follow to ensure they stay safe and healthy.
Activity 5: Sticking to my Decision Roleplay
By the end of the session, group members will be able to demonstrate ways to communicate assertively, using selected verbal and nonverbal techniques.
Activity 6: Wrap-Up and Closing Ritual
By the end of the session, group members will be able to summarize key points from the day’s activities.
