Middle School

Why Get Real?

Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education that Works is a unique program for middle schools that is designed to delay the onset of sex among adolescents. It provides youth with the skills and information they need to make decisions that lead to healthy behavior.

The Get Real curriculum:

The middle-school component, designed to delay the onset of sex, views sexuality in the context of relationships and focuses on social skills and a key component of making responsible and healthy decisions. It provides accurate and age-appropriate information on the following topics:

• Communication and refusal skills
• Relationships and boundaries
• Male and female anatomy and reproduction
• Puberty
• Decisions about sexual behavior, with a focus on abstinence
• Media literacy and sexuality
• Sexual identity
• Sexually transmitted infections
• Protection methods
• Goals and decision making