The options reflect a logical continuum. Sexuality-specific education and services were linked to efforts to improve academic, social, and vocational skills and prospects. Informed by research and practice, the youth development approach assumes there will always be a need for specific problem-focused interventions. It asserts, however, that we will never reduce this need until we back up to redefine the goals we have for young people and they have for themselves. Because how you define the goals determines how you define the strategies, who you decide should implement them, and when and where interventions should occur.
Prevention is an inadequate goal.
Problem-free is not fully prepared. Case in point. He's not a drug user. He's not in a gang. He's not a dropout.