Extension specialists helped train 150 9th and 10th grade teachers in a curriculum educators hope will give teens the tools to drastically reduce their risk of getting pregnant or contracting a disease. The curriculum, says Wallace, is practical. Instead, the curriculum, shows teens how to say no. It's very practical. Most of the activities are role-playing.
Teens recite scripts and practice saying no without jeopardizing friendship.
We teach them how to say no without cutting ties. That's very important for a teenager. So moderators introduce it slowly and gradually build students' skills. Being involved in teaching such a respected curriculum has been good exposure for extension, says Lynn Blinn Pike, state human development specialist for MU Extension. The CDC employs stringent criteria before identifying prevention curriculum.