Eleventh Grade Family Life Education (FLE)

Family Life Education

Instructional Objectives

Students will identify how sexually transmitted infections are contracted and how to prevent contraction.

Descriptive Statement: Topics include sexual and nonsexual high-risk behaviors that may cause contraction of bacterial STIs (gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, trichomoniasis) and viral STIs (herpes, hepatitis, HPV, and HIV); signs and symptoms of infection; treatment methods; and prevention methods including abstinence from sexual activity, abstinence from intravenous drug use, use of condoms, and use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (HIV prevention).

Students will identify methods of contraception.

Descriptive Statement: Instruction will include review of barrier, hormonal, and surgical methods; identification of effectiveness for prevention of pregnancy and minimizing risk of sexually transmitted infection; how to obtain various methods, and misconceptions regarding contraception.  Abstinence will be emphasized as the only 100% effective method for preventing pregnancy and the most effective method for preventing sexually transmitted infection.

Students will review the effects of sexual violence, review skills to promote safety and situational awareness, and review resources available for support and assistance.

Descriptive Statement:Instruction will review types of sexual violence including sexual assault, abuse, strangulation, sextortion, and sex trafficking. The impact of technology on sexual violence will be discussed. Instruction will clarify that depictions of sexual violence in media do not justify sexual violence in real life. Instruction will include establishing and reinforcing personal boundaries regarding sexual activity, including affirmative consent and skills to promote situational awareness-including a discussion on the heightened risks associated with substance use. Intervention strategies will include bystander awareness and strategies to support victims. Resources available for support and assistance and reporting sexual violence will be reviewed, and can include parents/guardians, caregivers, school personnel, religious leaders, health care providers, law enforcement, and community organizations and programs.

Media

Videotape for Grades 5-12 Human Growth and Development selected Special Education students only (female students):

Defining Sexual Assault: Edited for FCPS (2015), Human Relations Media, 34 minutes.

Part one: What is Sexual Assault? What Is Consent?Understanding the answers to these two key questions is the fundamental task of sexual assault education. Nationally-known experts help viewers delve into the complexities and nuances of both questions. Three sexual assault survivors tell their personal stories, with an emphasis on the circumstances of their assaults, the complex emotions and reactions triggered, and how definitions of sexual assault and consent become integral to understanding the consequences for both the victims and the perpetrators.

Part two: After an Assault. What happens after an assault? What are your legal rights, your rights under Title IX, your rights as a hospital patient, your rights as a minor, your right to counseling and other victim-support services? These questions are answered through the lens of assault survivors, a forensic nurse, a police detective, and rape crisis coordinators.

Part three: Risk Reduction and Bystander Intervention. Experts in risk reduction look at situations that are statistically riskier than others and identify specific steps to take to lower one's risk of assault, although there is no way to guarantee a totally risk-free environment. Bystander intervention explains how communities can work together to develop strategies to identify how sexual assault behaviors begin and how to intercede to prevent escalation of risk. The program also specifically addresses what to do if a friend confides in you, or discloses an assault.