Reduce sexual assault, unplanned pregnancy, STI's and increase college students' critical thinking about how pop media influences their perceptions of sex.
Durham, NC
Joined May 2017
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Team of behavioral health scientists to conduct a research study to better understand how to provide resources and programming to enhance the sexual and relationship health of #comm_college students and prevent sexual assault: nisod.cc/3EJeX1y via @iRT_inc, @Tracy_Scull
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Do you know teens who have participated in clinical trials? Researchers from iRT are developing a version of DigiKnowIt News for teens and are looking for teens who have participated in clinical trials to share their experiences. Click here bitly.ws/dRej #clinicaltrials
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"Fear is not a valid reason to not get tested," says @austinarmacost.
"The only thing that can stop that fear of the unknown is getting tested, knowing your status and moving forward with whatever the outcome is."
Here's more from Austin in @boyzmagazine for #HIVTestWeek 👇
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People who are LGBTQ experience high rates of intimate partner violence, yet they often don't have access to the support they need. buff.ly/32KGdty
Need help initiating the talk? Media Aware Parent is here to help: mediaawareparent.com/
Studies show that teens who have good conversations with their parents about sexuality wait longer to begin having sex, and are more likely to use condoms and other birth control methods when they do become sexually active. #LetsTalkMonth
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Happy Media Literacy Week to all! Check out irtinc.us/Products.aspx for more information on our Media Lit programs
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Today is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day which brings awareness to the issues aging people living with HIV face. View NASTAD's resource that focuses on ADAP coverage of treatment and services for aging people living with HIV: bit.ly/2sIplla #NHAAAD
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When porn is ubiquitous and comprehensive #SexEd is not, porn becomes the education. Read more here about how to talk to your kids about #porn: buff.ly/32KDgZE
September is World Sexual Health Month. It's also part of the Red Zone, a 6-10 week period when undergraduate students are most likely to be sexually assaulted. Help us prevent assault with comprehensive, evidence-based, online sexual health promotion at mediaawarecollegeprograms.co…
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Sometimes, after years of work on a project, you just have to cross your fingers and hope the data does the talking. We couldn't be more proud to share this publication from the Journal of Youth and Adolescence that shows that Media Aware Parent WORKS! rdcu.be/bKpNS
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This report, from the UK's Parliamentary Group on Literacy, is a fascinating read. It has useful definitions of fake news and several ways we can teach children to differentiate good and bad sources. Most important? More #MediaLiteracy programs in schools!
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Without warning, the government just ended a registry of mental illness and drug abuse programs thinkprogress.org/trump-ende… via @thinkprogress
Read the latest research on how an online program reduced community college students' risky sexual behaviors and improved their knowledge related to
sexual health. #sexualhealth ht.ly/aL4u30hIqiO
Do you know the sexual #health status of your partner(s)? "With new #statistics showing #STD's are on the rise across the country, health experts say sexual health #education needs to adapt with ever changing #technology." ht.ly/UXUx30heqk1
The results from this study suggest that #MediaAware is a promising means of delivering comprehensive sexual health #education to older #adolescents attending community #college. ht.ly/yHTE30hegKC
After the #MediaAware course, students experienced:
-Reduced belief that #peers were engaging in frequent risky sexual #behaviors.
-Increased sexual #health knowledge.
-Less willingness to have sex without some form of #protection. ht.ly/M8sA30hefnX
“I learned that people my age are not as sexually active as I thought they were, which makes me feel better about my own situation.”
Media depicts #college students as far more sexually active than they are in real life. How does #media affect other# perceptions? #MediaAware
#Media Aware uses #interactive, online #learning to provide your students with standardized, comprehensive, and engaging sexual #health #education to prevent two key obstacles to college success: unintended pregnancy and sexual #assault. ht.ly/1SWx30heexN
#Student's lives are complicated. 66% of all teen #pregnancies occur among 18- and 19-year-olds. 1 in 6 #college students have been sexually #assaulted. 30% of students report very difficult intimate #relationship problems in the past year. ht.ly/Gva130he5Ub