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| CAMPUS-BASED PROGRAM ON ADOLESCENT HEALTH,SEXUALITY, & DEVELOPMENT |
The Foundation for Adolescent Development Inc.'s Campus Based Program
is based on the premise that young people always turn to their friends
for information and support. The program involves an out of the classroom
youth-to-youth approach complementing classroom sex education and
school guidance programs. Students are given counseling skills and
correct information and understanding about adolescent development
to enable them to help fellow teeners.
The project was initially implemented in partnership with five schools:
Arellano University, Manuel L. Quezon University, Polytechnic University
of the Philippines, Systems Technology Institute College and University
of the East. One of the activities conducted in connection with the
Campus Based Program is the Student Congress, which provides a venue
to create an awareness of the concerns that young people want to address
and the role they can play in it.
The two-year experience of the five partner schools has been documented
in a resource book, "A Youth To Youth Model" as a means of assisting
other schools interested in adopting the approach. To ensure the continuation
of the program, FAD has developed simplified training modules. These
will serve as teaching tools for graduating students to pass on to
the new leaders.
Afterwards, the Campus Based Project developed the SEXTERS (Socially,
Emotionally and Sexually Responsible Teeners) program in another set
of partner schools namely Technological University of the Philippines,
Mapua Institute of Technology, Philippine Women's University, Far
Eastern University and Lyceum of the Philippines.
The SEXTERS program enables FAD to penetrate the core of the student
populace. In every partner school lies a SEXTERS Corner where teenagers
can study, hangout, be informed or just spend their free time. The
SEXTERS Corner has a mini-library, a counseling and tambayan area.
There are a few selected students who man the SEXTERS Corner and these
are called the SEXTERS Core Group Members. Like the 1st Phase Campus
Based Program, SEXTERS are given special training on peer counseling
and group facilitating. Add to that, they are given an orientation
on topics concerning adolescent sexuality and reproductive health
(ASRH).
Last June 20 to 22, 2003, the new SEXTERS Volunteers of the 5 partner
schools have undergone Orientation on ASRH at the Institute of Arts
and Sciences Conference Center of the Far Eastern University in Morayta,
Manila.
The SEXTERS of Lyceum of the Philippines recently held a special event
entitled SEXTERS: Can U B One? last August 16, 2003 at the
Lyceum Quadrangle. Prior to the event was the Positive Lives Exhibit
last August 13 to 16 in cooperation with Philippine Business for Social
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