Friday, March 30, 2012: 10:40 AM-12:00 PM
Pacific I (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the associations between traditional/harmful notions of masculinity and femininity and a range of poor health outcomes
- Describe how the Gender Matters intervention addresses gender norms with young men and women to prevent teenage pregnancy and intimate partner violence
- Examine how educational workshops, youth-developed videos, mobile phone text messages, and Facebook material are used to promote the positive messages of the Gender Matters intervention
Gender Matters is a science-based intervention that seeks to prevent teenage pregnancy and intimate partner violence by addressing harmful gender norms. By helping young men and women question and redefine social constructions of gender, the intervention addresses a critical determinant that brings the fields of sexuality education and violence prevention together. Gender Matters recognizes that promoting healthy, respectful, egalitarian relationships among teens can improve multiple health outcomes. The project does this through educational workshops, social media and community events.