Many churches have taken the initiative to inform young people about the reproductive health needs. Stakeholders will need to come together and produce a more definitive package for young people using youth-friendly information. Effective policies and legislation are in place which combat poverty, gender inequalities and curb early dropouts from the educational system. School is compulsory for all children who have attained age five until age sixteen. Job training for children in the two final classes at school as well as a variety of scholarship opportunities at the H.L. Stoutt Community College and other Caribbean and American colleges for young people, help to absorb school leavers and prevent unemployment.
Schools are co-educational.
Health and social equity prevail. The few dropout cases of young people from school because of teenage pregnancies or other drug related ills are supported by special programmes, such as the sewing and craft programmes for girls at the Department of Social Development and the Drug Rehabilitative classes for youth at the Sandy Lane Centre. Proactive approaches such as the G.E.D. courses provided for the youth are mechanisms put in place to assist young people outside and inside of the formal educational structures. The government planners and educators are sensitive to the growing Hispanic youth population, and Spanish continues to be one of the major subjects taught at the Secondary and Tertiary levels and over the past four years, in some of the primary as well as the private schools. In the British Virgin Islands there are no specific geographical barriers.