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Sex in the CBO: Changing youth development professionals attitudes about and supporting their interactions around youth sexual health
Methods: We used iterative, user-centered development processes grounded in behavioral change theory, coupled with extensive input from CBO-based YDP and nationally respected sexual health experts, to develop support resources for YDP and embed them within a CBO-targeted sexual health portal. Evaluation activities included subject-matter-expert review, mixed-methods single-subject usability sessions, and a pilot multi-site field trial.
Results: This initial effort developed media rich web-based and traditional learning and support tools to increase CBO-based YDP awareness of their omnipresent role as sexual health role models, mindfulness of ways everyday behaviors reinforce positive and negative sexual health mores, and evidence-based responses to sexual health questions. Resources include case studies, modeling, video, animation, and interactive self-assessment. The effort was well-received by participants, led to positive changes in awareness, knowledge, and attitudinal/self-efficacy, and provided formative data for future efforts.
Conclusions: CBO-based YDP are always already acting as models of sexual health and are also well-situated resources for more overt educational efforts. The current project has demonstrated these roles can be supported. Project resources will be shared and implications for future training and support efforts discussed.
Supported in part by NIH/NICHD#HD070522.
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related education
Learning Objectives:
Describe the opportunity sexual health education presents within community based organizations and the needs of those organizations as they work in this area.
Describe the development and evaluation of a set of research-based web and traditional resources for helping youth development professionals adopt and implement positive sexual health modeling, education, and support roles within the CBOs
Utilize the described pilot tools in their own CBO or CBO related research
Keywords: Sexuality, Community-Based Health Promotion
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have over 15 years experience as principle investigator and lead researcher on a variety of public health educational and behavioral change efforts, including several large scale multiyear projects related to public, provider, and patient sexual health with both adult and adolescent populations. I am presently the principle investigator on the NIH grant supporting the research described in this abstract. My colleagues are nationally recognized expert in community based organizations and sexual health education.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.