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I. Introduction
II. What are the ground rules for PHE workshops?
III. Why is your health important to you?
IV. How can a person make decisions
V. How can teens figure out what they care about?
VI. How can a person communicate their decisions to others?
VII. What is the PHE Teen Health Resource Card and how can a person use it?
VII. Conclusion |
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| PHE's mission is to give teenagers like you the knowledge and skills you need to make healthy decisions. We do this by training college students like us to teach health workshops in public high schools. |
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| Today we're introducing you to the PHE program and helping you think more about what you care about and how this affects how you make decisions about your health. |
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Sexual Decision-Making
Pregnancy Preention
Sexually Transmitted Infections & HIV
Healthy Relationships
Abusive Relationships
Rape and Sexual Assault
Nutrition & Physical Activity
Tobacco
Alcohol
Drugs
(Write the list of topics on the board or on easel paper)
During the PHE program, health Educators will share information, help you think about what you care about, and give you a chance to practice skills you can use to make decisions every day |
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Respect differences in background experience
Recognize that everyone comes from a different background and has had different experiences
Do not make negative comments or share personal information about other people
Be an active listener
Know your right to pass
Ask for help if you need it
If a PHE Health Educator learns that a student's well-being is endangered, he/she cannot keep that information confidential and will have to tell the school
Have your PHE workbook and nametag |
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| Ask the following question about the ground rules in order to establish a contract with the students: |
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| Can you follow the ground rules we have established in all PHE workshops from now on? |
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Every teen can be healthy and achieve their goals for high school
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The purpose of PHE workshop s is to help you achieve your personal goals. Every workshop will give you information and skills to help you work toward these goals. |
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| What are some topics that teens make decisions about that affect their health? ... Transition: |
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| For today, we will use alcohol as an example of a health topic that teens make decisions about. In a few weeks, you will have an entire workshop on alcholol and how to make decisions about drinking. |
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| consequences are the result of an action or an event. consequences can be positive or negative and can differ depending on the person. |
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| Stick the 5Cs on easel paper to the board |
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Step 1: Identify my Choices
Step 2: Understand the Consequences (both positive and negative)
Step 3: Decide what I Care about (what is important to me)
Step 4: Carry out my decision
Step 5: Communicate my decision to others.
20. Teenagers can use the 5Cs to make a decision about ANY health topic
21. During the PHE program, PHE health Educators will help you leanrinformation and skills you can use to understand your choices and the consequences of those choices to help you make healthy decisions.
22. PHE HEalth Educators will nto tell you what decisions to make
23. Instead, we will ask you to use the information and skills you've learned and consider what you care about in order to make the best decisions for yourself
24. All of you can be healthy and make healty decisions
Transition: Now that we have talked about how to make decisions about alcohol, or any health topic, we are going to talk aobut how a teenager can figure out what they care aobut so they can make the decision that is right for them |
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| What are some people or places that give you messages about whether or not to drink? |
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| Teens get messages all the time about how they should live and what decisions they should make. These messages influence what teens care about and what they think is important. |
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| Now we are going to ask you to think about the messages you recieve aobut drinking alcohol. Explain the following instructions: |
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Write one message you have received from friends aobut drinking on the upper right'hand corner of the page
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Write one message that you have recieved from your family about drinking on the upper left-hand corner of the page
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Write one message you have received from your community (religious community, ethnic community, or cultural community, such as your neighborhood) about drinking on the lower left-hand corner of the page
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Write one message you have recieved from the media about drinking on the lower righ-hand corner of the page
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Write the message you have received from the media about drinking on the lower right-hand corner of the page.
What a person cares about often changes over time. during PHE workshops, you will have many opportunities to think about what you care about. You may feel good about these priorities and want to stick to them, or you may realize that what you care about changes based on what you learn throughout the program. |
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| Each Health Educator leads the following discussion with one of the two groups. Ask students the following questions, one at a time: |
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What messages have you received from your friends about drinking?
What messages have you received from your family about drinking?
What messages have you received from your community about drinking?
What messages have you received from the media about drinking?
What is your message?
Why did you choose the message you wrote in the middle?
How is the message you chose similar to the messages you have recieved from your friends, family, community and the media?
How is the message you chose different from the messages you have recieved from your friends, family, community and the media?
Who do you listen to the most? Whose messages have the strongest influence on what you care about? |
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| Every teenager can make their own decisions aobut their health |
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| What does communication mean? |
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| Communication is an exchange of information between two people in which one person speaks and the other person listens |
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| Ask students the follwoing questions about communication |
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How can a person speak clearly?
How can a perosn listen successfully? |
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| How can a person speak clearly? |
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A person speaks clearly by saying what they mean
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A person speaks clearly by using examples to illustrate their point
A person speaks clearly by repeating themselves in a different way until their message is heard |
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| How can a person listen successfully? |
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A person listens successfully by making eye contact
A person listens successfully by not interrupting and waiting to speak until the other person is finished speaking
A person listens successfully by asking questions to clarigy what the other person means
What are some ineffective ways for a person to send a message? |
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| Who remembers the steps a teenager can go through to make a decision? listen to students and remind them of the 5Cs |
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Step 1: Identify my Choices
Step 2: Understand the Consequences (both positive and negative)
Step 3: decide what I Care about (what is important to me)
Step 4: Carry out my decision
Step 5: Communicate my decision to others |
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| distribute a Teen Health Resource Card to each student. |
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| The Teen Health Resource Card can also be found online at www.peerhealthexchange.org/teen and you can download it. |
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| If you type "Peer Health Exchange" into Google you will find the Teen Health Resource Card |
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On this side of the card, you will see many hotlines and websites listed.
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The hotlines and websites on the card are organized according to the different PHE health topics
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Hotlines and websites are a way for teenagers to get accurate infromation quickly and anonymously (meaning that a teenager can ask questions without anyone knowing who they are). |
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| Turn over the card so you can see the side that includes a map of health centers |
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On this side of the card, you will see several health centers listed.
The health centers on the Teen Health Resource Card provide many types of health services specifically for teenagers...
All the health centers listed on the Teen Health Resource Card offer free or low-cost services to teenagers, or they accept insurance.
All the health centers listed on the Teen Health Resource Card offer some confidential services to teenagers so that teenagers can get some services without a parent's knowledge or permission. You can call the health centers to get more information about which services they offer confidentially.
You can use the map to find the health center nearest you
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You can get an appointment to see a helath care provider at any of these health centers |
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Teenagers make decisons aobut their health every day, and every teenager can make their own decisions.
teenagers can work to achievetheir goals for high school by making decisions about their health.
A person who is making a decision aobut their health should follow the 5Cs of Decision-Making: identify their choices, understand the consequences of each hocie, know what they care about, carry out their decision, and , if necessary, communicate it to others
To communicate clearly in a relatinship, a person needs to speak clearly by saying what they mean, using examples, and repeating themselves in a different way. A person also needs to listen by making eye contact, waiting to speak, and asking quesitons. |
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