Informed Adolescence: Middle School Curriculum with Lessons on Teen Resilience, Sexual Health, and Boundary Setting

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The INFORMED ADOLESCENCE middle-school curriculum supports teen resilience through social and emotional skills; sexual health through developmentally tailored reproductive information and consent-focused context for sexual thoughts and feelings; and boundary setting through self-trust, risk mitigation, and practical skills for personal safety.

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The use of multiple modalities and approaches to this important subject ensures successful execution and active, engaged student learning. Key concepts of consent and parent/teacher support are particularly unique and valuable.

From a pedagogical lens, the content is presented in modules that strategically build upon each other. The curriculum includes additional resources and support for teachers, as well as an imperative Parent Support Module, which ensures sustained integration of the information into the student's community and coming of age.

Additionally, the emphasis on diversity and inclusion, on social emotional skills and on bystander intervention are essential, valuable and much needed in this field. This curriculum has a practical, inclusive approach that makes the content accessible to a wide range of bodies, genders, and experiences.

-- Aiyana Masla, Sexual Health and Wellness educator, Interdisciplinary Artist, DEIJB Educator & Facilitator with Alma Partners, and co-author of LETS TALK (Liberatory Education Tools' Teach Affirm Learn Know) Sexuality and Gender for K-4Heidi Spoulls creative approach of intertwining her skillset as a sexual health educator and self-defense instructor lends to a unique curriculum for adolescents to learn consent negotiations and self-confidence -- Kristen Lilla, LCSW, CST-S, CSE-S, and author of Vaginas and Periods 101: A Pop-Up Book, Colors of You, and Boxes and How We Fill Them: A Basic Guide to Sexual Awareness
Drawing on her extensive experience as a psychotherapist and 15 years of wisdom gained through teaching young people, Heidi Sproull has written a comprehensive, welcoming, inclusive curriculum on resilience and sexual health for middle-schoolers. This is an accessible, relevant, contemporary work that will serve as a much-needed practical guide for adults who know that the young people in their lives deserve clear information, so that they can take good care of themselves and each other. -- Vicki Larson, co founder, Alma Partners

Author Bio

Heidi J. Sproull, LMSW, CST, is a psychotherapist and sexual health professional with more than 30 years of experience. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she has developed, written, and taught her INFORMED ADOLESCENCE Middle School Curriculum with Lessons on Teen Resilience, Sexual Health, and Boundary Setting and Personal Safety since 2010. Heidi is an AASECT-certified Sex Therapist. Her psychotherapeutic work specializes in sexual health, recovery from sexual trauma, chronic pain, and in supporting mental, physical and emotional wellness throughout the life span. Additionally, Heidi teaches self-defense and boundaries workshops, Consent Certainty workshops, and is involved in social justice work.