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            -  Evidence and Innovation 
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            -           Vision of You      

# Vision of You

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

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

Kim Hartzler-Weakley, Ph.D.

Vision of You is an online, self-paced sexuality education program that aims to reduce sexual activity and the number of sexual partners, increase contraceptive use, and prepare participants for adulthood. It is designed for youth ages 13 to 19. It includes content on healthy relationships, life skills, communication skills, and adolescent development. The online curriculum is interactive and includes games, videos, quizzes, character scenarios, and reflection questions.

Vision of You was designed for youth ages 13 to 19.

Vision of You is delivered online.

For curriculum, materials, and pricing information, please contact:There is an online form on the Vision of You website for requesting pricing information: https://www.visionofyouinfo.org/pricing

For training and support, please contact:sexedva@jmu.edu

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Vision of You aims to reduce sexual activity and the number of sexual partners, increase contraceptive use, and prepare participants for adulthood by educating them on adolescent development, healthy relationships, life skills, and communications skills. The program also provides content on sexually transmitted infections, contraception, reproductive health and pregnancy, and clinic visits.

The program includes the following nine units:
                        - Identity:  The unit includes content on future orientation, self-identity, and influences of peers and the media.
                        - Healthy relationships:  This unit includes content on self-efficacy, support mechanisms, communication about sex, and how to negotiate safer sex or refuse sex.
                        - Talking with adults:  This unit includes content on developing strong social support mechanisms and open communication with adults about sex.
                        - Consent:  This unit includes content on developing skills to enhance sex refusal and self-efficacy, self-control techniques, and identifying situational factors and making decisions to take protective action.
                        - Anatomy:  This unit includes content on adolescent development, reproduction, reproductive anatomy, human sexual responses, reproductive health, and pregnancy.
                        - Sexually transmitted infections:  This unit includes content on self-efficacy, safe sex, perceived susceptibility and severity of sexually transmitted infections, and cues to action.
                        - Methods of protection:  This unit includes content on skills on how to refuse sex, self-efficacy, perceived benefits and barriers of protection, how to negotiate condom use and use a condom, and attitudes toward condom use.
                        - Clinic visit:  This unit includes a virtual clinic visit video, information on gynecological and male annual exams, equipment used during exams, STI screenings, and questions and concerns for LGBTQ youth.
                        - Thinking forward:  This unit includes content on promoting optimism for the future and creating structure for future goals.

The program is delivered through an interactive online curriculum that uses games, videos, quizzes, character scenarios, and reflection questions.

The curriculum includes nine 45-minute units, for a total of 6.75 hours of programming. It is intended to be completed over four to six weeks. Participants work their way through the online curriculum at their own pace but, ideally, participants will complete the program in no fewer than three sittings.

Staff implementing the program will need to maintain an instructor account and share access to the Vision of You program with students.

Participants need a computer with internet access and their own email address.

Personal headphones are recommended to watch videos and participate in games with sound.

Vision of You is intended to be completed over four to six weeks. It should be completed independently and can be done in a variety of settings, including school, community-based settings, and at home.

Staff offering Vision of You are required to take a training course on the components of the program, allowable adaptations, the role of an askable adult, and responding to student questions.

Contact sexedva@jmu.edu for training and support.

Allowable adaptations are listed below:
                        - Offering adaptations or accommodations to meet accessibility needs or provide opportunities for participants to complete the program with a supporting adult. This can include support in reading text, typing assistance, identifying interactive components to click on, or explaining activities and games.
                        - Skipping videos or activities that make participants uncomfortable for whatever reason. When skipping videos or activities, it is recommended that a teacher talk through the content covered in the video or activity. The instructor will need to allow a video to play on mute or enter a response for the student to advance content.
                        - Providing participants with a list of resources or places to go for further information about the topics.
                        - Offering the program outside of a classroom setting and providing options to talk with a supportive adult (such as a case manager or counselor).
                        - Giving students twice as much time to complete the program due to an individualized education program, personal issue, or heavy workload.
                        - Moving on from games, including Playing it Safe, STI Eliminator, Circle of Connection, Common Myths, Consent Get Some, Female Anatomy Jigsaw Puzzle, Male Anatomy Jigsaw Puzzle, and Say What?, without a high (or assigned) score.
                        - Adapting games so they are in person and with peers instead of computer based. For example, scenarios can be presented by a facilitator and turned into a group activity in the classroom.
                        - Allowing schools to bring in physical examples of methods of protection for students to look at (with parent permission).
                        - Allowing a knowledgeable health care or mental health professional to provide participants with an anonymous question box link or phone number to answer questions.
                        - Having class discussions after each lesson.
                        - Adding a lesson on the effects of alcohol on the body. For example, the school can bring a speaker to discuss alcohol safety after completing content on consent.

The following adaptations are not permitted:
                        - Omitting lessons or activities.
                        - Removing videos or parts of videos without a teacher talking through the content. 
                        - Using only one lesson out of the entire program. 
                        - Forcing participants to share their answers with the whole class, their parents, or their teacher.

### 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.*