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            -  Evidence and Innovation 
            -  Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evidence Review 
            -  Programs 
            -           Healthy Futures      

# Healthy Futures

- Program Information
- Program Overview
- Program Description
- Program Component Table
- Program Implementation

- Research Evidence
- Reviewed Studies
- Study Characteristics
- Study Findings

The program was designed to be implemented and evaluated in a school-based classroom setting. It was also designed to include optional interacting components that occur after-school and online.

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                        - Nu-CULTURE  (Cultivating Urban Leaders Through Unique Relationship Education):  a classroom-based relationship education program for grades 6-8. The curriculum helps students understand the risk associated with early sexual activity and develops skills necessary to make healthy decisions and avoid risky behaviors. It emphasizes increasing skills and self-efficacy in communication and refusal skills using through age appropriate, medically accurate information about teen pregnancy prevention, sexually transmitted infections, and other sexual health topics.
                        - An  online virtual classroom  that students have unlimited access to where they can find additional information and ask anonymous questions that are answered by Healthy Futures staff.
                        - Rhymin’ it Write  (RIW) (optional): A 10-week after-school program for middle school students. Using poetry, writing, and other forms of artistic expression, students discuss steps to good decision making, how to set limits and boundaries, and healthy relationships.
                        - Code A  (optional): A summer program that compliments the Nu-Culture classroom-based relationship education program and further develops the leadership skills of students who participated in RIW. Teens receive instruction on the basics of improvisational theater and performance preparation. Students work together to develop their own skits and other dramatic presentations to be performed at youth and community events.
                        - True Connections:  The Healthy Futures parent education program, which includes sessions at schools or in the community with the goal of increasing parents’ capacity to parent using active listening, honest communication, and problem solving. It teaches parents to use natural and logical consequences to reduce risky behaviors. Topics include data on teen sexual health, relationships, responsible sexual behavior, alcohol and drug use, bullying, and more.

**Nu-CULTURE **

**Rhymin' it Write**

**Code A**

The Healthy Futures program is structured as follows:
                        - The Nu-CULTURE curriculum consists of eight 50-minute sessions each in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, for a total of 24 sessions over the course of three years.
                        - Rhymin’ it Write consists of a 10 week after school program.
                        - Code A is intended to be delivered over the summer.

The ideal group is less than 30 students per class with 2 health educators. The maximum class size is 60 students with four health educators.

                        - Classroom space
                        - White board/chalkboard
                        - Laptop computer
                        - Projector
                        - Microsoft PowerPoint
                        - Media Player for Audio & Videos

www.healthy-futures.org

                        - Making Nu-CULTURE activities more interactive
                        - Customizing role play scenarios
                        - Updating and/or customizing statistics specific to your community.

### Evidence by Outcome Domain and Study

#### Notes

*Some study entries may include more than one citation because each citation examines a different follow-up period from the same study sample, or because each citation examines a different set of outcome measures on the same study sample. A blank cell indicates the study did not examine any outcome measures within the particular outcome domain or the findings for the outcome measures within that domain did not meet the review evidence standards.*

*Information on evidence of effectiveness is available only for studies that received a high or moderate rating. Read the description of the review process for more information on how these programs are identified.*