South Carolina: Safer Choices for South Carolina Youth

Recognizing the demand and need for training in this area South Carolina Healthy Schools (SCHS) researched proven, effective curriculum for reducing sexual risk behavior among teens. Upon reviewing several curriculum Safer Choices was selected to be use for sexual risk reduction trainings. Building on the existing partnership and collaboration the SCHS HIV Coordinator and program staff contracted with the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy to conduct regional capacity building training sessions for high school teachers to implement Safer Choices

Outcomes: The South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and SCHS HIV coordinator developed a Safer Choices training cadre comprised of fourteen individuals from the Department of Education Healthy Schools, the Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, school district level staff, and members of community-based organizations. The cadre were trained and certified as Safer Choices “Trainer of Trainers” by ETR Associates, the publishers of “Safer Choices”.

The South Carolina Safer Choices training cadre trained over one hundred high school teachers in the Safer Choices curriculum.

• Contact Person: Aaron Bryan
• Email Address: AKBryan@ed.sc.gov
• Website Address: http://ed.sc.gov/