Saturday, November 1, 2014
Blog Post 4
All group members were present when we met on Friday, Oct. 31st.
Amanda reported that she did speak wtih Cindy Taylor, the Education Coordinator of the Rape Recovery Center, who said that she is no longer teaching the 6th grade maturation classes. She referred Amanda to Kerry Jensen from Prevent Child Abuse, who apparently is now teaching it. She, Amanda and Deborah will meet with her next week to discss the curriculum.
Sarah is currently researching national websites, especially one in particular called, "Comprehensive Sex Ed: Research and Results", published by Advocates for Youth. This publication outlines successful outcomes from various program saround the Country, as well as offering a plethora of teaching and information tools for parents. http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/1487.
Roxane and Alexandra are continuing to research the districts with both the highest and lowest teen pregnancy rates in the valley. The group plans on using this information to help us curtail our outreach efforts, as well as gain information from the more successful schools to include in our parent outreach.
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This all sounds good. Has anyone measured the effectiveness of the maturation course? Also, I'm wondering about how far the reach is for the maturation classes. Is there a possibility of joining forces with Prevent Child Abuse in these efforts? Or targeting a different area than Prevent Child Abuse addresses? These are just things to think about.
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