ACES: Abstinence and Contraception Education Storehouse

项目摘要/摘要：尽管美国高中生的性行为在过去十年中有所下降，但美国青少年感染艾滋病毒和其他性传播疾病的风险仍然很高。每年大约有25%的性活跃青少年感染性病。据估计，美国新感染艾滋病毒的人中有一半是25岁以下的人。此外，美国青少年怀孕率仍明显高于其他工业化国家，其意外怀孕和堕胎率是最高的。针对这一问题，一些针对青少年的行为干预措施已经被开发出来，这些措施在减少导致怀孕和性传播疾病/艾滋病毒的不安全性行为方面显示出了功效。这些项目主要侧重于认识社会影响，改变群体和个人规范，包括技能建设活动，并通过角色扮演和小组讨论等技巧提供沟通、谈判和拒绝技能的建模和实践。然而，教师和从业者往往发现很难实施，因为他们需要使用互动教学方法，这是许多教育工作者不熟悉的。拟议的项目名为禁欲和避孕教育仓库（ACES），建议建立一个教育资源图书馆，可用于补充和加强青少年性风险降低干预措施的技能建设活动。ACES的教育资源将是一系列的视频短片和片段，有两个目的：(a)为教师/从业员提供各种互动式技能培养活动和练习，以补充和加强他们正在推行的干预措施的内容和活动；以及(b)通过提供互动式教学示范/培训，培训教师和从业员实施互动式技能培养计划的组成部分，ACES将有两个产品组成部分：(1) ACES青少年活动图书馆，将围绕青少年艾滋病/性病和预防怀孕等关键话题，展示各种角色扮演场景和小组讨论。(2) ACES教师培训图书馆，包含指导进行互动教学的视频片段。ACES的角色扮演和小组讨论视频片段将来自社会计量学的性、健康和青少年项目档案（PASHA），这是一个正在收集的33个有前途的青少年怀孕和性病/艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防项目。ACES库视频组件将被数字化，并可通过互联网或DVD访问。项目说明：相关性：ACES项目将使教师和从业人员能够通过提供互动式教学方法的培训，并允许他们以技能培养活动补充干预措施，从而促进青少年积极参与和参与，从而改进青少年性风险降低项目的实施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary/Abstract: Although sexual activity among U.S. high school-age students has declined over the last decade, U.S. teens remain at high risk of acquiring HIV and other STDs. Approximately 25% of sexually active teens contract an STD each year. An estimated half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur in people under age 25. Further, the U.S. teen pregnancy rate remains significantly higher than that of other industrialized countries, and its unintended-pregnancy and abortion rates are among the highest. In response to this problem, a number of behavioral interventions for teens have been developed, that have shown efficacy in reducing unsafe sexual practices that lead to pregnancy and STDs/HIV. The programs focus significantly on recognizing social influences, and changing group and individual norms, include skills-building activities, and provide modeling and practice in communication, negotiation and refusal skills through techniques such as role play and group discussions. However, teachers and practitioners often find it difficult to implement them as they require the use of interactive teaching methods, something that many educators are unfamiliar with. The proposed project, entitled the Abstinence and Contraception Education Storehouse (ACES), proposes to develop a library of educational resources that can be used to supplement and enhance skill-building activities in teen sexual risk reduction interventions. The ACES educational resources will be a series of video vignettes and clips with a 2-fold aim: (a) to offer teachers/practitioners a variety of interactive skill-building activities and exercises that can supplement and enhance program content and activities in the intervention being implemented by them, and (b) to train teachers and practitioners to implement interactive skill-building program components by offering demonstrations/training in interactive teaching, ACES will have 2 product components: (1) The ACES Youth Activities library that will demonstrate a variety of role play scenarios and group discussions organized around key topic areas in the area of teen HIV/AIDS/STDS and pregnancy prevention. (2) The ACES Teacher Training library that contains video clips offering guidance on conducting interactive teaching sessions. The role-plays and group discussion video vignettes in ACES will be drawn from Sociometrics' Program Archive for Sexuality, Health and Adolescence (PASHA), an ongoing collection of 33 promising teen pregnancy and STD/HIV/AIDS prevention programs. The ACES library video components will be digitized and can be accessed via the Internet or on a DVD. Project Narrative: Relevance: The ACES project will enable teachers and practitioners to improve program delivery of teen sexual risk reduction programs by offering training in interactive teaching methods, and by allowing them to supplement their interventions with skill building activities that will promote active youth engagement and involvement.