Jamaica [ Te Br Try CUPBRRICLILLIM i A me tg we oer ay UU [=rFOREWORD unicef 9 = eee HFLE Curriculum: Grades {EWG KETOSERWISIGEUNICER. the National HIV'STI Prevention and Conta Programe funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Carbhean Consulting The Health Promotion Te errr Th vs of this document Was as ides by rcommendat urea, acknowedges VISION FOR TH To provide a postive natin the Behaviours the development ofthe H MISSION STATEMEN eam has guided the revision of this document to ensure alignment withthe Expanded CARICOM nd Farily Life Edition (HELE). This document was rev? EY Te ETE PUMITO-Pew-ancs se om KEP NA ARETE IRIAINTUNFPA and the Ministry of cath, whose supper with hanks ll your kind cooperation and comments and we hope that this version ofthe Heakh and ALTH AND FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION SCOPE AND SEQUENCE onment in which students can develop the skills required to make healthy life choices, hat make for thei good helt and support a beter society through the training of teachers an cath and Family Life Education euriulu.oe A 7 unicef TELE Carncataer Reouree GRADER, Sassen and Seve Heath Note: ere er Is this appropriate for 12 year olds? i possible hat your heterosexuality fsust phase you may grow out of sei ero {sit possible hat you might be ga if you, oi? ‘Why do you heteonenul poop ryt seduce others ito your hie jetty of cid molesters are heterosexual. Do you consider tse 0 rescives the divorce rates siang, Why ate there 0 few stable relationships amangheteosenual people cient behets be polos iy wos sabreak, deat, and divorce@ ©] Note: These questions are invasive and inappropriate for 12-year-old children, the majority of whom have Serene never had sexual relations, scones) “Theme: Sexuality and Sexual Health |_ Between 10 and 13 points Personal Rsk Assessment Rsk Assessment Too! ees erie eae eed COvjectve: To increas avarenes of individual's personal isk of HIV infection fie sete towm, Ju eo me Instructlons: Get participants to mark one pint ona pice of poper for cach ofthe following question to. | consist to pres yours and your sx Have you ever hc seal ntrsoure! nso Have 3ou ever ad sx witout a condom? z Lave you fel sex without «condom with a partner who was nota mutually faithful parte Sou eer engaged in unprotected ex in exchange for sexual pease oe oes ave you ever been 30 drm that yo ont rember usinga condom wen having sex? Hi 14 ! er bad caval seal pares? sire faemaer! om 5 Do youve more than one ex partner nthe same moh? 8. Didyou evr have sex wtbout a condom seh someone who looks hey’ 5. Hla you ever had one of more new sexual partners inthe period of a month and not wed a | ; ‘condom in each ese poe Sa path , 10, Have you cver started having x without a condom but only wed ital ay vtough or towards | yy pe a a rik kes aly ime fa 11 Have you ever had anal sex without a condom? 12, Do yot know sour HIV snus 13. Boyou know the HIV stots ofaiiyourparners? Have portcpuns add up vir scores sn expla the consequences ofthe categories theirpointtoals | place then i, Discussion Ack paicipants to veh make a lis of thing they do thar put them at rik for HIV infection and actions they personaly ean take to change these behaviours.Circles of Sexuality SeNSUALTY ‘arenes, sceptics of nd comer wit ne own tow, phyiiog ad ppchlogca eaommentet ‘ones own body and bodes of thes macy SEUAUZATON The abit and ee to experience enovors “he we of roy overest tnoter infurce, cooler fran beng ac hve snaps ober reumed. Fecal norton Fekngs& ses course Physiology aed Astor) of Reproductive Ona Sexi Repodacive 'SBLUAL HEALTH ANO REPRODUCTION SBLUALIDENTTY ‘Auden and boar celted 0 The development of seve Drodedng chen care and maintenance ofwho one sonal, the sex ad reproductive organs ard Incedinga sense of maeness heh consequences of exe bavr. and femalenes.Note: Carib his page was inserted inthe nanual directly from a US. based curriculum,(Cireles(6f Sexuality, Explanation Senay is much more than se feings or ens ntecoue an portant par of who 3 ‘enon and what se o he wal ecome I Indes al oe feng, though and behavon of beng feral oc mae being atvacve and being ove a5 wel as begin elaonships hat Include send nimacy and pica seal cy Gide other people's bodies, especially the body of a sexual partner” SexSUALIY awareness and ecg about you own Dod a the Deople's bodes, eC» the body of 2 sen pares ‘Sersutty enables sto fet good about how our bodes ok and fel and what they can do. Serb io Bows us to enor the peste oe bodes can give us ad other Ts pat or ‘Sensuality enables usto feel good about how’ ‘our bodies look and feel and what they can do. v Souualty sects or behavior in aera ways Need to understand antoy and phology ~ with nowiedge and understanding ‘olscents can appracate te pyslogy of he bode: Body image — wheter we feel atacive and rou ofc own bodies and he way they fnctoninbucnces many expec of our ives. Alescent often hose meds penonaliies athe andsrd for how they sou ook so ey ar Hey (2 be ‘Ssopoited by what ey seein te mito, They ay be especialy dastsed when the ‘manrear mela does not porvay pode, ot al ha types sin, har, eye, body Sizes or other physeal charac. _expenencing please and reese rn ser erson = sensu aows vs 10 exe ‘lessure when we or Or ouch eet pars of eur bodes. AS the cumination oe Seal respons cre, ales and eras can expeience Oa whe fey ASUS fovea seal experence wit a pares Sathing sin hunger — ou need 10 be touched adhe by others in loving cag ways isoften scerred oa in hunger, Adolescents ype receive es touch hom aay ‘members than do young chien Therefore, many tens sty thei skin hunge trough ‘dou pyleal contact wit a peur Sens interoure may res Fom a tees peed wo be ‘el ater tha om somal Gee Fecing oinicstacton for antes peren —the centro seal and asacton ‘thers is notin the gets, bute rast most Inportant sex orzaN” The (mesg mechani responsible or sexual aracion we hate Fantasy ~ the bain ho ges ste capac to have aan abowt vi havin and Cipmiecen Adlecets cen nead help understanding Dat the senate hoy Speteroe we wormal but de rot hove be ached ope Sensuality also allows us to enjoy the pleasure ‘our bodies can give us and others. es 5 ce Experiencing pleasure and release from sexual tension sensuality allows us to experience pleasure when we or others touch certain parts of ourbodies. As the culmination ofthe sexual response eyle, males and females can experience orgasm wien they masturbate or have a soxual experience witha partner Fantasy —the brain also gives us the capacity to have fantasies about sexual behaviors and experiences. Adolescents often need help un- derstanding that the sexual fantasies they ex- perience are normal, but do not have to be acted upon.unicef HELE Curriculum: Resources Note: These questions are invasive GRADES and inappropriate for 12-year-old reese cay and Sexual Health appropriate for 12-y children, the majority ef whom have Introduction to Heteroseruality: Gu A magery never had sexual relations, Pease get comfortable, Ifyou fel comfortable 0 0 5, WERE world in which you are ne 35 All of your fends and family members are ofthe doctor ft sce nthe world al ofthe books and television programs are about = close your eyes as you sit or lay back. Concentrate as | take you to sideshow--exposed fo @ World very different from the one in which we live...” that straighs ae emo ast year thore was aif “All of your friends and family members are gay; most of the doc- Sy tors, judges, politicians and world leaders are gay.” “In this world, all of the books and television programs are about reese 2 gay characters, and marriage is legal only for gay couples.” hae cohon bea Noone in yur fan 387oe unicef = = cae HELE Curriculum: Resources GRADES Theme: Sexuality and Sexual Health Introduction to Heterosexualty: Guided Imagery ‘Slowly rad the following tothe participants. ‘ Pease get comfortable, Ifyou fc! comfortable todo s, close your eyes a8 you stor lay back. Concentrate as | ake you to word very different from the nc in which we ive~-a word in which you are straight, but everyone else isnot In tis word almost ll ofthe teachers and stents in your school ae f33.Allof your fends and family mennbers ae gayi most ofthe doctors, judges, politicians and weld leaders are gay. Colbie ate all ay, as areal the priest In this world all ofthe books and television programs are about gy characters, nd mariage is lg only for gay couple. sh. You have heard things like: straight people ar sick; they are obsessed with sex. Programmes on television somtimes explore the curious ~ataght lifestye ike the characters out ofan old ete nc, there are some straight people, but they are ridiculed and whispered about, Cleary, ther is something relly bad about bing sr describing how straight people are slways gting pregnant or infected with HIV. In these programm, staights sideshow—exposed fr their oddities. Your fiends have tld you that straight people are often hill abuscrs and you have ovesard your neighbour sy that straights ae erosional dstrbod and have ne morals ght—parens don ant sgh! people teach Last yor there was a big problem in your fown because vomcone accused one of the teachers of being sr their children so, the teacher was fred even though she insisted that she was gy. There are fe, i any, protections fr sraight people. You have heard that straights can lead scout troops and hat straights canbe fire from their jobs or kcked out ofthe military if people find out about them. There's even 8 Story you heard last week about a child who was kicked out of his oun bore Because he told his dad he might be staiht. This is all very sary for you bocause you are beginning o think that you, t0, eight be straight. More than anything inthe weld, you want your par to ove you, 1 accept you as you ae. What will hey say if you tall them that you might be straigh! The thought of tling them-—of tling anyone rakes you sick o your stomach, Whe can you tura i? Your brothers tlk nonstop about how eute the quarterback on the local football team s. Your sist hus a crush on the latest supermodel. You wish you had ersh on someone of your own sex, but you dnt! Is people ofthe opposite sex who aract you 1 n0 one yor know as ther, so you continue to hide Noone in your fail has these feelings —i 347unicef 9 al mata HFLE Curriculum: Resources this scariest of secrets, Somewhere desp inside you understand tha, if people found ou who you rly ae, they would ridicule you. Worse » Sometimes you think that you have to tel someone about this sere. You spend hours thinking about whom to approach. You remember when you were a id hearing your dad tell nasty jokes about straights atthe dinner able and everyone laughed. So, you cant tell your family. You remember your filys religious leader telling the congregation that being straight is unnatural and immoral and the whole congregation nodded in agreement. So ting th religious leader is definitely out. In health lass you Ieared that itis normal to fel physically and emotionally atracted to people of your same sex. No te sex. You are sure that what yo ‘one talked about being attracted to som: feeling cannot be normal and that no one ean help you. straight"The teacher just ignored it You hear her laugh the week before. however when the kid in the seond row called out in disgust thatthe pocm the [Al ofthis makes you fel really isolated and aia. You are unsure what to-do. Where can you turn? Who can you talk 9? You can talk about your feelings at home; your schoo fests unsafe, you dont trast your tnd to support you. Having this secrets itl ke having a piranha inside—it keeps cating away at your self-stem, so that afer a while you hate how you fo and you hate youself, oo p + Writen by Faughn Adams, Psy D; adapted and reprinted with permission of Links, North Shore Youth Heal Services, Noi, I dation and Advocates for Youth, © 2005 and adapted for Reprinted from Creating Safe Space for GILT Youth: A Toolkit, ies Best Friend Fo bee.J amaica \ oe AO ec CUPDICLIL LIM eae i ee ae ey Stee UU Edition #SHAME ON UNICEF! SIGN THE PETITION