Issue:

Middle school youth are under increasing pressure to experiment with sex based on changes
in societal norms and values.

Project:

Produce 15 new video segments and create a new updated manual for the internationally recognized Postponing Sexual Involvement Educational Series for Young Teens. (2006)

Result:

Young teens are being given the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need to postpone sexual involvement using a newly revised middle school Postponing Sexual Involvement Series.

The Postponing Series recognizes that young teens need opportunities to be think about and discuss social and peer pressures to become sexually involved. The Series does this in a guided way. Young people are helped to conclude that they should wait to have sex until they are older and more ready for the kinds of commitments and responsibilities that should go along with a sexual relationship.

Through the Series, teens decide on a stopping point and learn skills that enable them to carry out saying “no” to sex in a variety of problem situations commonly faced by teens.