A 10-week family planning program specifically designed to target a predominantly African American and Hispanic urban male population.

1. Family Planning
Male-Focused Education

2. Overview
• 10 week program
• 2 hour sessions
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Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Choices
Week 3: WIC Services
Week 4: Legal Aid
Week 5: Family Planning
Week 6: STI’s
Week 7: Sexual Communication
Week 8: Review
Week 9: Personal Improvement
Week 10: Celebration

3. Week 1: Introduction
• Overview of Program
• Logistics
• Ice-breaker
– What does it mean to be a man? (pre-test)
(From Young Dads Program)
• Setting group and individual goals
• Develop ground rules
• Pre-test sexual attitudes and behaviors scales

4. Week 2: Choices
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (15 minutes)
– A collection of vignettes told from the perspective
of three teenage boys, dealing with issues of
passion, pregnancy, peer pressure and STI’s.
– Discussion to follow
• The Choices We Make
– Young lovers struggle to make the right decision
about becoming parents.
– Discussion and exercises to follow
– (Total= estimated 50 minutes)

5. Week 3: WIC Services
• Guest Speaker: WIC
– Representative comes in to talk about services
– Tour of WIC Center
– Q&A
• Men write up questions for Legal Aid
Representative

6. Week 4: Legal Services
• Guest Speaker: Legal Aid
– Talk about rights and responsibilities as young
fathers or expectant fathers
-Answers questions
-Open forum for Q&A and/or discussion

7. Week 5: Family Planning
• Reproductive biology
– Male and female diagrams
– Anatomical Models
• Contraception
– Birth Control Methods
• Charts and samples available
• Skill Building: Condom Demonstration
– Male and Female Condoms

8. Week 6: STI’s
• STI Education
– CDC Video: Why does it matter: Street Stories (3 min)
– CDC Video: What is it? (5 min)
• http://www.cdc.gov/std/Be-Smart-Be-Well/default.htm#
– Brief PowerPoint about STI, HIV/AIDS
– STI Roulette Game
• Representative from clinic comes in to talk
about services CHC provides
• Field trip to Caring Health Clinics

9. Week 7: Sexual Communication
• Sexual Negotiation and Communication Skills
• Sexual Violence Prevention
• Talking with Partners
• Simulation Scenarios
– Movie clips leading up to sexual situations
– Discussion about what happens next? What could have been done
to make this a safer situation? What was done well? What’s
missing? Etc.
(Based on FLASH lesson plans)

10. Week 8: Review
• Reviewing and Summarizing experience
• Providing resource information
• Post-test
– Re-visit “What it means to be a man?”
– Sexual Behavior and Attitude Scales

11. Week 9: Personal Improvement
• Guest Speaker: GED and job opportunities
• Exercise: List at least 5 skills you’ve learned
– What can you offer to your partner or child?
– Do you feel you’ve made personal growth and
development over these last 9 weeks?

12. Week 10: Celebration
• Ceremony
– Talk about the program and accomplishments of
members
• Certificates
– One for each participant for completing workshop
• Gift Bags
– Full of resources, gift card/incentive, and sexual
health products (i.e.: condoms)