1. Sex Can Wait A Parent Preview Night

2. Challenges Presented By Adolescent Sexual Behavior Teen Births. The U.S. leads the western word in births to teens. New Mexico consistently has one of the highest rates of teen births in the country.

3. Challenges Presented by Adolescent Sexual Behavior Teen Births. The health, social, and economic consequences of this too early childbearing are devastating.

4. Challenges Presented By Adolescent Sexual Behavior HIV/AIDS & Other Sexually Transmitted Disease. High rates of sexually transmitted disease, particularly among young people. These are much more than an inconvenience. They represent a serious public health problem.

5. Challenges Presented By Adolescent Sexual Behavior Lack of Future Focus Young people who: (1)postpone sexual involvement, (2) set positive achievable goals for their lives, and (3) work toward those goals, are more likely to be successful than those who become involved in sexual relationships early in life and focus on now rather than a better future.

6. Magic Bullets Comprehensive sexuality education and abstinence education programs both attempt to help young people deal with issues related to adolescent sexual behavior. Neither approach, however, offers a magic bullet.

7. Sex Can Wait The Sex Can Wait curriculum series is a life- skills program that helps young people postpone sexual involvement and make a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood.

8. Sex Can Wait Award-winning – Five time winner of U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services Award for Outstanding Work in Community Health Promotion.

9. Sex Can Wait Award-winning – Five time winner of U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services Award for Outstanding Work in Community Health Promotion. Evaluation articles published in: Family Life Educator, American Journal of Health Education, North American Journal of Psychology, American Journal of Health Behavior (2), and Journal of School Health.

10. Parent Involvement Parents are the primary sexuality educators of their children. Sex Can Wait can help: Take Home Assignments Parent Preview Nights Parental Permission Parent Guidelines

11. Sex Can Wait Take Home Assignments Attempts to gain a high level of parent participation in school-based programming have not achieved a high level of success. When parents do become involved, they are rarely the parents of children who are at highest risk.

12. Sex Can Wait Table of Contents (Middle School) Knowing Myself Unit 1 - Introduction Introduction to sexuality education Self-Concept Developing a Positive Frame of Reference

13. Sex Can Wait Table of Contents (Middle School) Unit 2 – Puberty Adolescence Male Reproductive Anatomy & Physiology Female Reproductive Anatomy & Physiology Masculinity and Femininity

14. Sex Can Wait Table of Contents (Middle School) Unit 3 – Values and Decision-Making Values Decision-Making

15. Sex Can Wait Table of Contents (Middle School) Relating To Others Unit 4 – Communication Communicating Effectively Interpersonal Communication Skills

16. Sex Can Wait Table of Contents (Middle School) Unit 5 – Family What Is A Family? Talking With Parents Or Guardians

17. Sex Can Wait Table of Contents (Middle School) Unit 6 – Friends Friendship Peer Pressure

18. Sex Can Wait Table of Contents (Middle School) Unit 7 – Dating Dating Relationships Love Or Infatuation?

19. Sex Can Wait Table of Contents (Middle School) Unit 8 – Sexual Decision-Making My Sexual Self In Relationship To Others Sexual Decision-Making: Saying No Difficulties Of Early Sexual Involvement Sexually Transmitted Disease STD: Reducing The Risk

20. Sex Can Wait Table of Contents (Middle School) Planning For The Future Unit 9 – Goal Setting And Life Planning The Importance of Goals Make Your Dream Come True

21. Sex Can Wait Abstinence – An instrumental value; not an ultimate value

22. Education About Contraception Sex Can Wait teaches students about the following methods of birth control:

23. Education About Contraception Sex Can Wait teaches students about the following methods of birth control: Abstinence

24. Education About Contraception Sex Can Wait teaches students about the following methods of birth control: Abstinence

25. Education About Contraception Sex Can Wait teaches students about the following methods of birth control: Abstinence

26. No Abstaining From Information Content Engagement Opportunities for questions – with real answers

27. Evaluation A number of positive evaluations of Sex Can Wait have been published in scholarly/professional journals. Projects like the one with NMSU provide additional opportunities to evaluate program effectiveness with different groups.

28. Questions?