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Teen Talk is a sexuality education program that is implemented
in family planning service agencies and in middle and high schools for
males and females aged 13 to 19. Teen Talk has been implemented in seven
urban and rural sites in California and Texas. This program aims to enhance
knowledge of the consequences of teenage pregnancy, and the goals of the
program are to delay the onset of sexual intercourse and improve contraceptive
use and consistency. The evaluated program was administered for 8 to 12
hours over a two- to three-week period in lecture and classroom format.
Teen Talk has four program components: 1) presenting factual information
on reproductive health; 2) group discussions of factual information; 3)
group discussions about values, feelings, and emotions around sexuality;
and 4) actual decision-making about sexual issues. The Teen Talk program
curriculum can be purchased as a PASHA kit for $195.00. An experimental
evaluation of Teen Talk one year after the intervention found that males
participating in the Teen Talk program were more likely to remain abstinent
than control group males. There was no similar effect for females, however,
and the program showed no impact on using an effective contraceptive method
at first intercourse.
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