EveryBody: Preventing HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Young Teens

EveryBody: Preventing HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Young Teens

RAD Educational Programs, PO Box 1433, Carbondale, CO 81623. 140p., illus. ISBN 0-9679256-0-6. $35.00.
Deborah Schoeberlein. 2000.

In 1992, Schoeberlein founded the nonprofit organization called Redefining Actions and Decision (RAD) Educational Programs expressly for the purpose of developing and implementing interactive HIV education. EveryBody is now the featured curriculum of a 5-year federally funded national dissemination project. She believes "that HIV prevention requires a radical approach"..."needing education that is compassionate and flexible, explicit and honest, direct and ambitious." The 24 sequential student-centered activities with guiding questions, step-by-step directions, assessment measures and lesson extensions provide an extremely successful and powerful HIV/STD education curriculum for 5th to 9th grade students.

The first 6 chapters cover developmental issues, using the text, recommended sequences of the activities, information about HIV and AIDS, information on STDs, and information on alcohol and other drugs. The activities make up the rest of the book covering bill of rights and responsibilities, building bodies, cells, bacteria and viruses, condom boxes, decision making, doorways, emotional and physical safety, gloves, HIV antibody test, HIV mutation, HIV replication, illegal drugs and HIV/STD, It could happen to me, level of risk, media messages, pennies, purple dye, risk-taking, social situations, STDS and pregnancy, talking about condoms with older children, talking about condoms with young teens, talking risk elimination and risk reduction and walk like activity. This is an excellent book that has received international recognition. It is highly recommended for all school libraries as well as public and academic curriculum libraries. It will bother some individuals who do not like this type of sex education to be taught to their children but this is one of the finest books of its kind that this reviewer has seen.
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