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Abstract
Engaging and supporting parents to provide sexuality education to their children is successful when parents take ownership of the intervention. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the lessons learned from implementing a parent-designed, parent-led sexuality education curriculum for parents of preteens (10–14 year olds). The parents developed the methods to disseminate their expertise, experience, and strategies they discovered that worked to enhance family communication and education around sexuality. Specific lessons learned include how the parents’ created an educational experience; using parents as recruiters and peer educators; and ensuring fidelity of the parent led design.
Acknowledgments
The project described was supported by Grant APA PA 006014-01 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The statements and opinions expressed are solely the responsibility of the Helping Our Parents to be Educators (HOPE) Project and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Department. The authors thank all the parents for their dedication, humor, and patience in this project, as well as Dr. Kevin N. Wright for his tireless work on the evaluation. We also acknowledge the support of the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs. Ms. Wooden and Dr. Anderson affirm that we have listed everyone who contributed significantly to this work. We have obtained written permission from those listed in the acknowledgements.