Street Smarts by Gregory Koukl helps Christians better engage in productive conversations with those who challenge their convictions on a variety of issues. For Students Pursue a deeper knowledge of God through self-paced college- and seminary-level online courses in Old and New Testament studies, theology, biblical Greek, and more.For Instructors and School Administrators Enhance your school’s traditional and online education programs by easily integrating online courses developed from the scholars and textbooks you trust.To find out more about future trainings, please visit Effective Interventions. The package is available from CDC along with training on program implementation and technical assistance.įor More Information on the Street Smart Package Computer diskettes containing above-mentioned materials for easy customization.Handouts for intervention-specific educational and skills-building exercises.Sample social marketing and recruitment materials, which may be reproduced.Facilitator training manual for program staff. ![]() Building skills in problem solving, personal assertiveness, and HIV/AIDS harm reduction.Identifying personal triggers, using peer support and small group skills-building sessions.Teaching HIV/AIDS risk hierarchy and its personal application.Enhancing affective and cognitive awareness, expression, and control.The core elements of Street Smart include: Street Smart is meant to supplement existing services for homeless and runaway youth.Ĭore elements are intervention components that must be maintained without alteration to ensure program effectiveness. This package was pilot-tested at community-based agencies that serve homeless and runaway youths, where staff and youth were instrumental in identifying key strategies to plan, implement, and evaluate the intervention. The Street Smart intervention package is the product of extensive collaboration among researchers, staff from public and private agencies serving homeless and runaway youths, and youth from diverse backgrounds. Street Smart is one of the REP interventions. Replicating Effective Programs (REP) is a CDC-initiated project that supports the translation of evidence-based HIV/AIDS prevention interventions into everyday practice, by working with the original researchers in developing a user-friendly package of materials designed for prevention providers. Journal of the American Medical Association, 266(9), 1237-1241. Reducing HIV sexual risk behaviors among runaway adolescents. Rotheram-Borus MJ, Koopman C, Haignere C, & Davies M. African American youth reported greater reductions in substance use than youth of other ethnic groups reported.Young women reported greater reductions in substance use and unprotected sex than young men reported. ![]() Youth reduced their substance use and number of unprotected sex acts. ![]() Youth also are given access to medical and mental health care through weekly visits from a public health nurse, visits to a community-based agency that provides comprehensive care, and referrals for specific individual health concerns. In addition to the group sessions, private sessions with a counselor are included to give youth the opportunity to assess their own barriers to safer sex and discuss their dysfunctional attitudes and behavior patterns. The small group format permits collective support for safer behaviors and behavior change to be developed and mobilized. The majority of the sessions address improving youth’s social skills, particularly assertiveness and coping, through exercises that teach them to identify their emotional and behavioral reactions and unrealistic expectations in situations with potential risk for HIV transmission. During early sessions, information on HIV prevention is conveyed in video and art workgroups where the youth review and discuss commercial HIV/AIDS prevention videos and then develop their own soap opera dramatizations, public service announcements, commercials, and rap songs. Approximately 10 youth attend each group session. Sessions are held after dinner at the runaway shelter where the youth are staying and are led by trained counselors. The intervention consists of eight, 1.5 to 2 hour drop-in group sessions delivered over a 2- to 6-week period. The program is based on social learning theory, which describes the relationship between behavior change and a person’s beliefs that he/she has the ability to change a behavior and that changing that behavior will produce a specific result. Street Smart is a multisession, skills-building program designed to help groups of runaway youth reduce unprotected sex, number of sex partners, and substance use.
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