Family life education: teaching adults to communicate with youth from a Muslim perspective. Participant handbook.

Family Life Education: Teaching Adults to Communicate with Youth from a Muslim Perspective includes a manual containing six day-long workshops and this Participant Handbook. This handbook is referenced in the workshops and is designed for participants to keep and use when talking about reproductive health and HIV with youth. Every participant should receive a copy of the Participant Handbook to enhance and strengthen outreach to youth following the workshops. Participants will use them repeatedly and will want to share them with youth. If possible the handbook should be reproduced on durable paper and laminated. The objectives of the six day-long workshops are to: Learn and practice the "Five Muslim Family Life Education (MFLE) Communication Steps" and the accompanying skills to discuss family life topics with young people; Learn essential youth reproductive health information including sexual development sexually transmitted infections (STIs) HIV and AIDS pregnancy family planning and gender roles; Build communication skills to guide youth to make informed decisions about having sex seeking professional medical services when needed choosing a marriage partner using drugs or alcohol continuing ones education and developing a livelihood; Examine personal beliefs and use insights from the Quran and Sunnah to discuss values about reproductive health and HIV prevention with young people; Identify and map local resources in the faith and medical communities; Develop an individual action plan for outreach with youth following the completion of the workshops. (excerpt)