Puberty Education

Classroom Lessons

Through the Be Cool Choose Abstinence Program, APPS is able to provide puberty education to 4th, 5th, and 6th grades classes. Students learn about physical and emotional changes that occur during puberty, and are taught about the reproductive systems and how they operate. The students have an opportunity to have their questions answered in a safe environment and are encouraged to talk more with their parents when they are at home.

Parent-Child Programs

Parents teach their children many important lessons in life, yet, promoting healthy sexuality is one many parents find difficult. In the past, parents may have felt they did enough by reviewing a few basic “facts of life” with their children. However, today, the realities of HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and adolescent pregnancies brings home that it is important to start young and to talk often. Confusing messages continually come at our children. Watch any television show, look through a fashion magazine, listen to popular music or read the newspaper, and the difference between your childhood experience and your children’s is clear.

To help facitlitate this important communication, APPS offers "You and Your Body." This parent/child evening is intended to reinforce parent messages such as, “respect your body, understand what’s happening to you and make good healthy choices now and throughout your life”. The evening will consist of students and parents or guardians watching a video together and then separate boys, girls and parent break out sessions for a question and answer period.

For more information about our Puberty Education Programs, please contact APPS at 963-4361.