The Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education, developed by a national task force of experts in the fields of adolescent development, health care, and education, provide a framework of the key concepts topics, and messages that all sexuality education programs would ideally include.
Local education agencies and individual schools planning for students and staff to return following COVID-19 closures must prioritize efforts to address social and emotional learning and mental and behavioral health needs. Equally important is ensuring staff feel their physical and mental health needs are supported. Districts should ensure all policies or recommendations are culturally sensitive and ensure equity and access for all youth.
Teaching sexual communication skills is an important component of sex education. Without the ability to communicate about sexual health, young people are not able to make and follow through on healthy decisions and may be put at risk of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Classroom settings are limited in their ability to illustrate what healthy communication between partners looks like in real-life situations.
This website provides a summary of the classroom management approaches and skills that research suggests strengthen school connectedness. It includes example strategies, tools, and templates school staff can use to apply these approaches in their face-to-face, virtual, or blended learning modes.
An evidence-based approach schools can implement to help prevent HIV, STDs, and unintended pregnancy among adolescents.
This webinar focuses on risk communication around TB during the COVID-19 pandemic. The learning objectives for this webinar are:
• Recognize the emotional and psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health workers and TB patients
• Apply risk communication principles to develop messages on TB and COVID-19 for front-line health workers, patients, and contacts
• Use tailored approaches for communicating with health workers, TB patients, contacts so appropriate TB care can be provided
Use this guide to conduct a 5-step walkthrough with health officials to review planned COVID-19 mitigation strategies.
This guide provides tips on how to modify your classroom layout to promote behaviors and settings that reduce the risk of COVID-19.
This video encourages young children and household contacts of TB patients to adhere to TB treatment to help prevent TB.
The fact sheet provides information on the similarities and differences between COVID-19 and TB.
