| The Kern
High School District offers a 5-lesson curriculum to all 9th grade
students at each of the 16 comprehensive high schools. The
program, in it's 16th year and taught by four full-time HIV Education
instructors, is scheduled at each school and is taught to freshmen
students, in most cases, during Health class in both English and Spanish. The Special
Education population is also facilitated with a newly developed
curriculum, as are the junior-class students with a one-hour follow up
program in the spring semester.
Program materials include a student workbook, class
videos, worksheets, and a number of other data and tools that
compliment each lesson and student's retention. Other features
include the collaboration with the Kern County Department of Public
Health and the Bakersfield AIDS Project.
The curriculum is specifically designed to
communicate the requirements of SB-71 (The California Comprehensive
Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Act), and the collaborative
goals of educators, health professionals, parents and community
members. The program helps prepare students with skills of
responsible decision making, refusing high risk behaviors, goal
setting, and compassion. The curriculum also exposes the
students to modules on HIV 101, myths and facts, methods of reducing
the risks, HIV testing, refusal skills, statistics and societal issues. |
