School Health

HIV/STD and Sexuality Education Curricula teens

The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development does not endorse specific curricula, but

seeks to provide districts with the most up-to-date materials and research-based programs so schools can evaluate what best meets the needs of their student population.

  • Advocates for Youth: Science and Success - Advocates for Youth undertook an exhaustive review of existing research to complile this list of programs proven effective in the prevention of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
  • Childtrends LINKS - LINKS (Lifecourse Interventions to Nurture Kids Successfully) summarizes evaluations of out-of-school time programs that work (or not) to enhance children's development. The Database is user-friendly and directed especially to policy makers, program providers, and funders.
  • ETR ReCAPP - The Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (ReCAPP) provides practical tools and information to effectively reduce sexual risk-taking behaviors. Teachers and health educators will find up-to-date, evaluated program materials to help with their work with teens.
  • National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy - The database below includes interventions that have some evidence of success in changing behavior related to teen pregnancy. More specifically, the programs had to delay the initiation of sex, improve contraceptive use, and/or decrease teen pregnancy (including secondary pregnancy/births).
  • Sociometrics Program Archive on Sexuality, Health, and Adolescents - The Program Archive on Sexuality, Health, and Adolescence (PASHA), funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Office of Population Affairs, is a collection of effective program replication kits designed to reduce teen pregnancy and STI/HIV/AIDS in adolescents.
  • Office of Adolescent Health
  • CDC Compendium of Evidence-Based HIV Prevention Interventions - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed this Compendium of HIV Prevention Interventions with Evidence of Effectiveness to respond to prevention service providers, planners, and others who request science-based interventions that work to prevent HIV transmission. All interventions selected for this Compendium came from behavioral or social studies that had both intervention and control/comparison groups and positive results for behavioral or health outcomes.
  • What Works 2008 - Curriculum-based programs that prevent teen pregnancy.
  • HIV/STD and Sexuality Education Curricula - A list of just a few of the many HIV/STD and Sexuality Curricula.
  • Replicating Effective Programs Plus - CDC hosts the REP+, Replicating Effective Programs plus website. This site is dedicated to helping you learn about HIV prevention interventions that have been tested and proven to work, and have been packaged by REP!