Program Components
- Intensive, interactive single‐session STI/HIV prevention intervention
- Five segments, lasting 3.5-4 hours total plus 1 hour for adult preparation subjects
- It incorporates videos, lecture, group discussion and activities
- Research groups were organized by gender, either all male or all female with no more than 10 per group, but partners have done mixed gender groups with success
- It is required that the trainer has been trained in Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Motivational Enhanced Therapy (MET). We provide some training in MI/MET.
- Overall goals are to deepen STI/HIV knowledge, improve correct condom use, reduced sexual risks and alcohol use and set long‐term goals to utilize knowledge and skills learned during the session
Intended Participants
- Temporary adolescent detention facility
- Other detention or in‐patient facilities
- Community-based and clinical settings like foster care agencies
- Multi-ethnic populations – white, Latino, Asian, and black youth
Evaluation Findings
- Reduced incidence of unprotected sex – increased condom use
*Source: Advocates for Youth, Science and Success, 2nd Edition