reproductive health services for adolescents - Pathfinder International

Module 16/Unit 1
Specific Objective #1: Explain the rationale for undergoing a
special training for adolescent reproductive health
CONTENT
Knowledge/Attitudes/Skills
BARRIERS TO INFORMATION AND
SERVICES FOR YOUTH
• Lack of services: little access to
family planning or services for
treatment or prevention of STI/HIV
• Lack of access to condoms
• Provider, parent, teacher, and
community attitudes about youth and
sexuality
• False beliefs that young people are
not sexually active and that
information will increase sexual
activity
• Lack of messages targeted to youth
• Lack of providers trained to deal with
youth
• Policies, legislation, and protocols
that restrict adolescents from
accessing services and information
Training/Learning Methods
(Time Required)
SENSITIZATION EXERCISE:
ADOLESCENT CLIENT’S
EXPERIENCE (20 MIN.)
The trainer should:
• Introduce the exercise by explaining
that adolescents often face many
barriers when trying to access ARH
services and information. The
following story represents a typical
experience of an adolescent trying to
access services.
• Read the story found on Trainer’s
Tool 1.1: Barriers to Information and
Services for Youth.
1.1
• The story should be told in three
segments, reflecting three different
visits to the local clinic. The segments
show several obstacles at each visit
that would not be necessary if quality
services existed.
• While telling the story, hold up the
sign with the word “MOTIVATION”
written in large bold letters.
• Each time the client in the story
experiences an obstacle to her
seeking/receiving ARH services, tear
a piece of the MOTIVATION sign,
indicating that the client has lost
some motivation to practice good RH.
• At the end of the first visit, discard the
first and largest sign, which should be
mostly torn up by the end of that visit.
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Adolescent Curriculum