NCJ Number
117621
Editor(s)
M Quackenbush,
M Nelson,
K Clark
Date Published
1988
Length
526 pages
Annotation
These 30 papers are designed to provide educators, professionals, parents, and youth leaders with guidelines for implementing programs to provide AIDS education to children and youth from preschool through grade 12 in both school and nonschool settings.
Abstract
Individual papers describe AIDS from the perspective of a person who has the disease and present medical and epidemiological information about the disease. Papers focusing on the development of prevention education discuss the steps involved in developing community support for school-based AIDS education, involving parents, training teachers, evaluating programs, involving organizations that serve youth, and providing AIDS education in a medical setting. Articles on school-based education cover issues related to the education of students in preschool through grade 3, grades 4 through 6, grades 7 through 9, and grades 10 through 12. Additional papers examine the provision of AIDS education in various religious settings, controversies regarding AIDS education, the education of minority populations, and the education of special populations such as runaways, gay and lesbian youth, hemophilic youth, and handicapped youth. Glossary, chapter reference lists, figures, tables, resource lists, and appendixes presenting guidelines and recommendations from several national organizations.