STITPPI Cycle 1 Implementation Guide
This guide and the associated resources are intended to provide information about how STITPPI established, implemented, and evaluated the program – utilizing the Draw the Line/Respect the Line curriculum – during Cycle 1 (2011-2016).
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Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programming
Guide to Trauma-Informed Sex Education
Developed by Cardea, the guide “provides facilitators, educators, and youth-serving professionals with concrete strategies for integrating a trauma-informed approach into sex ed and pregnancy prevention programming.”
Find more information and the latest version of the guide here.
Get Real
According to the Get Real website,
“Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education That Works is a unique curriculum designed for implementation in both middle and high schools. Get Real emphasizes social and emotional skills as a key component of healthy relationships and responsible decision making. Information provided is medically accurate, age-appropriate and is shown to:
- Delay sex among middle school students who received Get Real;
- Empower parents to be the primary sexuality educators of their children and help their kids delay sex;
- Reinforce family communication and improve communication skills for healthy relationships.”
Get Real was selected for implementation by adult and youth advisors from the Spirit Lake Nation and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for STITPPI Cycle 2.
Draw the Line/Respect the Line (DTL/RTL)

(Courtesy of Winston-Salem State University)
DTL/RTL is a three-year, evidence-based curriculum that promotes abstinence by providing students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades with the knowledge and skills to prevent STIs, HIV and pregnancy while empowering them with skills for self-advocacy and refusal. DTL/RTL was selected by tribal advisory groups from GPTCHB’s three participating communities during STITPPI Cycle 1, and by adult and youth advisors from the Yankton Sioux Tribe for STITPPI Cycle 2.
Note: while supplies last, STITPPI can offer teacher guides and student workbooks for all three grades for DTL/RTL. Please contact Opal Jones – STITPPI’s Outreach Coordinator – at [email protected] for more information and to request a kit.
Nu-CULTURE
According to Healthy Futures’ “Relationship Education” site:
“Nu-CULTURE is a 24 session program developed by Healthy Futures that provides middle school students with the knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy necessary to delay sexual activity and avoid the risk of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Nu-Culture includes a variety of engaging activities designed to maximize student participation, including small group activities, role-plays, audiovisual materials, and daily parent connection forms.
Nu-CULTURE helps students understand the risk associated with early sexual activity and develops skills necessary to make healthy decisions and avoid risky behaviors. The program emphasizes increasing skills and self-efficacy in communication and refusal skills using through age appropriate, medically accurate information about teen pregnancy prevention, sexually transmitted infections, and other sexual health topics. Nu-Culture includes daily parent connection forms designed to engage parents in the topics covered and encourage open parent-teen communication.”
Nu-CULTURE was selected for implementation by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska for STITPPI Cycle 2, Years 4 and 5.
Rights, Respect, Responsibility (3 R’s) Curriculum for K-12
Developed by the National Advocates for youth, this free curriculum meets the National Sexuality Education Standards and includes the 16 topics noted by the CDC as essential components of sexuality education.
For more information, check out their website here.
Parent-Child Communication Basics
Developed by Advocates for Youth, this 75-minute introductory seminar is designed to support the improvement of parent-child communication. Materials can be drawn from and tailored to fit specific community needs, culture(s), and values.
For more information, check out their website here.
Other Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Curricula
- HHS Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evidence Review – offers general information and research related to the various evidence-based TPP curriculum options.
- Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) TPP Resource Center – offers a searchable database of TPP curriculum options and tools to assist with selection of the curriculum that is right for you.
- Healthy Native Youth – offers information about curricula designed or adapted for American Indian/Alaska Native communities, as well as resources to support TPP programming.
- Tribal PREP Resources
- “Adapting Programs for Tribal Youth” (Podcast)