Program Guidance: Promoting Adolescent Health through School-based Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has funded Program 1807 to improve the health and well-being of our nation’s youth by working with education and health agencies and other organizations to reduce HIV, STDs, unintended teen pregnancy, and related risk behaviors among middle school and high school students. To support this work, CDC developed PS18-1807 Program Guidance. This guidance is based on scientific literature and expert input about what is most likely to be effective in reducing risk for HIV infection and other STDs among adolescents, including 3 strategies: sexual health education (SHE), sexual health services (SHS), and safe and supportive environments (SSE).
Complete Program Guidance document pdf icon[PDF – 120 pages]
- Cover and Table of Contents pdf icon[PDF – 5 pages]
- Chapter 1: PS18-1807 Program Guidance Introduction pdf icon[PDF – 9 pages]
- Chapter 2: Strategy 2A – Sexual Health Education (SHE) pdf icon[PDF – 29 pages]
- Chapter 3: Strategy 2B – Increasing Access to Sexual Health Services (SHS) pdf icon[PDF – 22 pages]
- Chapter 4: Strategy 2C – Safe and Supportive Environments (SSE) pdf icon[PDF – 22 pages]
- Chapter 5: Cross-Cutting Actions pdf icon[PDF – 17 pages]
- Afterword and Appendices pdf icon[PDF – 16 pages]
- Adolescent Health: What Works In Schools
- Developing a Scope and Sequence for Sexual Health Education [PDF – 17 pages]
- GYT: Get Yourself Tested for High Schools
- Health & Academics
- Health Considerations for LGBTQ Youth
- Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT)
- Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT), Module 6: Sexual Health pdf icon[PDF – 70 pages]
- Health Services for Teens
- Program Success Stories
- Protective Factors
- Protective Factors for LGBTQ Youth: Information for Health and Education Professionals
- Sexual Risk Behaviors
- Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
- Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary and Trends Report 2007-2017pdf icon