Planned Parenthood Case Study

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For our community assessment project, we hypothesized that Planned Parenthood hired the Integrated Behavioral Model to construct their project: Healthy U. We believe that the IBM was used because of the juxtaposition of its three main criteria (perceived norms, personal agency, and attitudes) with the social structure and pressures of the teenage world. The Healthy U program aims to increase teen awareness about STD/HIV risks, pregnancy and abortion, relationships and abuse, as well as provide sessions in which students can gain usable skills. By completing the 5-7 day program at school adolescents learn and develop refusal skills, negotiation skills, how to seek support and help, and gain knowledge about pregnancy, abortion, and birth control. …show more content…
An important aspect of the program is provide enough information about a specific condition (STD/HIV, pregnancy, relationships) that teens feel like they have fluency on the topic. A part of providing information is to make the information congruent with the student’s beliefs about the expected outcomes (done through outcome/feedback sessions) and through increasing self-efficacy (done through student/counsellor led practice sessions for refusal and relationship skill building). To improve student personal perceptions many of the sessions are led by peers who are trained to educate peers. The sessions held by peers as well as counsellors help with improving social facilitation, creating positive affect, and endorsing emotional and instrumental support for students who would be seeking help and information. The criterion of personal agency is achieved through practice sessions on relationship navigation and gender roles, as well as community events for the Healthy U