Training Materials
This manual builds the capacity of youth-serving program managers with limited experience to design programs that respond to the sexual and reproductive health needs and rights of young people, and helps youth develop life skills and adopt healthy behaviors. (PROFAMILIA/Colombia and CEDPA, 2003)
Faith-Based Family Life Education Curricula
These curricula, including a participant handbook, are designed to work with adults; one curriculum is for a Christian audience and the other for a Muslim one. No other manuals like these exist. They provide a training curriculum for adults and faith-based professionals to learn how to communicate with youth about sexuality and reproductive health/HIV issues. In addition, a curriculum is available for working with youth directly, from a Christian perspective. The manuals encourage open discussion about sexuality, reproductive health, and HIV in the context of faith communities, using Bible and Quran verses. They are not designed to promote religion. (Family Health International/YouthNet, 2006-2007).
This manual is designed for service providers and counselors working with youth. Approximately one-third of clients who seek HIV testing are youth, and these young people often have different needs than do adults. With this easy-to-use, spiral-bound booklet, service providers and counselors can improve their skills and assist youth with the difficult issue of HIV counseling and testing. The tool emphasizes integrated services with handy references and charts on contraceptives, other STIs, youth-friendly services, and other information. (Family Health International/YouthNet, 2005)
This spiral-bound guide is targeted at young people to help them understand the physical and emotional changes that accompany puberty. (Institute for Reproductive Health and Family Health International/YouthNet, 2003) This manual is also available in
French (PDF, 2.57 MB) and
Spanish (PDF, 2.45 MB).
This module includes sections to sensitize providers to the needs of adolescents and to prepare them to offer reproductive health services in a manner that is youth-friendly. It emphasizes dual protection against STI/HIV and pregnancy, safer sex, counseling, care for pregnant adolescents, and issues related to gender, sexual abuse, and sexual orientation. (Pathfinder, 2002)
This Web-based training module is designed to increase the awareness and understanding of the reproductive health needs of young adults among policy-makers, program directors, program planners, and health care providers. The module has sections on overview issues, information and services young adults need, contraceptive options, and 4) issues regarding STI/HIV prevention and treatment. The modules can be used either as an interactive self-study program or as a participatory, group training experience with PowerPoint slideshow (95 slides), presenter’s notes, and other resources. (Family Health International, 2003)
This 100-page training manual provides an overview of using theater in health education. It contains four peer theater training workshops, a series of theater games and exercises that can be used in trainings, and information on developing and building a peer theater program. It is a collaboration between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Family Health International, produced for the Youth Peer Education Network (Y-PEER), a project coordinated by UNFPA. (Family Health International/YouthNet 2005)
This comprehensive program for providers contains a planning and preparation section and nine training modules covering the meaning of adolescence, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, adolescent-friendly health services, sexually transmitted infections in adolescents, care of adolescent during pregnancy and childbirth, unsafe abortion in adolescents, pregnancy prevention, and other topics. Some modules have multiple sessions. Only selected modules are available online, but the entire module can be ordered on a CD ROM or in printed form. (World Health Organization, 2004)
The comprehensive kit includes the only available training curriculum for pharmacy personnel. Available online in five segments, it provides tools for all aspects of developing and implementing a project that works with pharmacies on youth reproductive health issues. (Path, 2004)
This comprehensive curriculum covers biases toward serving youth, provider values, adolescent development, contraception and STIs/HIV, effective communication and counseling skills, and other issues. It talks about creating youth-friendly services through a system called COPE (client-oriented, provider efficient). You can download segments of the manual. (EngenderHealth, 2002)
Youth Participation Guide: Assessment, Planning, and Implementation
This multi-part guide seeks to increase the level of meaningful youth participation in reproductive health (RH) and HIV/AIDS programming at an institutional and programmatic level. The target audience includes senior and middle management, program managers, staff involved in implementing activities, and youth who may be engaged at all levels of an organization's work. The package is available in the following PDFs. (Family Health International/YouthNet, 2005)
This manual is designed to be used to prepare master-level peer education trainers. It uses participatory techniques based on a variety of theoretical frameworks to ensure that future trainers are skilled and confident in their abilities to train peer educators and serve as informed resources for their peers. The manual resulted from a collaboration between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Family Health International. It was produced for the Youth Peer Education Network (Y-PEER), a project coordinated by UNFPA. (2005)
Disclaimer: The information provided on this web site is not official U.S. Government information and does not represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Government or The Johns Hopkins University.
