Whats Good

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Whats Good
Integrating Youth Culture Into Health Education
Monica Rodriguez Vice President for Education and
Training Sexuality Information and Education
Council of the U.S. (SIECUS)
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Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions
• Goals and Objectives
• Considering Culture
• Exploring Youth Culture
• Towards Becoming Culturally Competent in Youth
  Culture
• Youth Panel
• Wrap-up and Evaluation

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Adolescents RealitySource Class of 200X
Mindset List, Beloit College, www.beloit.edu
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Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions
• Goals and Objectives
• Considering Culture
• Exploring Youth Culture
• Towards Becoming Culturally Competent in Youth
  Culture
• Youth Panel
• Wrap-up and Evaluation

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Goal

• To increase the capacity of education and health
  professionals on integrating youth cultural
  competence into their health education programs

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Objectives

• Identify components of youth culture in the U.S.
• Understand the connections between popular youth
  culture effective health education programs
  targeting young people
• Strategize ways to incorporate youth cultural
  competence in program design delivery
• Identify three ways NGOs can use information
  about youth culture to improve their constituents
  health education programs

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Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions
• Goals and Objectives
• Considering Culture
• Exploring Youth Culture
• Towards Becoming Culturally Competent in Youth
  Culture
• Youth Panel
• Wrap-up and Evaluation

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Defining Culture

• The body of learned beliefs, traditions,
  principles, and guides for behavior that are
  commonly shared among members of a particular
  group. Culture serves as a roadmap for both
  perceiving and interacting with the world.

Source Increasing Multicultural Understanding A
Comprehensive Model, Don C. Locke, Sage
Publications, 1992.
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When you hear the word culture what comes to
mind
Traditions
Language
Religion
VALUES
Political Power
FOOD
Economic
HEALTH BELIEFS
Communication Styles
Immigration
Family Structure
Acculturation
Gender Roles
NORMS
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What are some examples of the sub-cultures among
the young people you works with that are not
based on race, ethnicity, or religion?
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Examples of Non-Ethnic Cultures
Drug Culture
Urban Culture
Lesbian Culture

Suburban Culture
Gang Culture
Street Culture
Rave Culture
Goth Culture
Gay Culture
Skater Culture
Alternative Culture
Bisexual Culture
Transgender Culture
Migrant Culture
Hip Hop Culture
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• If you wanted to communicate to others that you
  were part of ________ culture

- what would you wear - what music would you
listen to - what words would use (for example, to
show that you really liked something)
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Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions
• Goals and Objectives
• Considering Culture
• Exploring Youth Culture
• Towards Becoming Culturally Competent in Youth
  Culture
• Youth Panel
• Wrap-up and Evaluation

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Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions
• Goals and Objectives
• Considering Culture
• Exploring Youth Culture
• Towards Becoming Culturally Competent in Youth
  Culture
• Youth Panel
• Wrap-up and Evaluation

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Defining Cultural Competence

• The state of being capable of functioning
  effectively in the context of cultural
  differences.

Source Towards a Culturally Competent System of
Care, Cross, Bazron, Dennis, Isaacs, 1989,
Georgetown University Child Development Center
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Stages of Cultural Competence
? Unconscious Competence ? Conscious
Competence ? Conscious Incompetence ?
Unconscious Incompetence
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10 Things You Can Do To Become Culturally
Competent

• Explore Your Community
• Strengthen Your Verbal Non-Verbal Skills

• Ask
• Read
• Talk
• Listen

• Observe
• Question
• Examine
• Analyze

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Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions
• Goals and Objectives
• Considering Culture
• Exploring Youth Culture
• Towards Becoming Culturally Competent in Youth
  Culture
• Youth Panel
• Wrap-up and Evaluation

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Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions
• Goals and Objectives
• Considering Culture
• Exploring Youth Culture
• Towards Becoming Culturally Competent in Youth
  Culture
• Youth Panel
• Wrap-up and Evaluation

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Support Young People

• Become Culturally Competent in Youth Culture
• Use Young People to Craft and Deliver the Message
• Learn from the Media
• Be Creative When Developing Educational
  Interventions

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If you can show me how I can cling to that which
is real to me, while teaching me a way into the
larger society, then and only then will I drop
my defenses and my hostility and I will sing
your praises and help you make the desert bear
fruit. Ralph Ellison
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• Monica Rodriguez
• Vice President for Education and Training
• Sexuality Information and Education Council of
  the United States (SIECUS)
• 130 West 42nd Street, Suite 350
• New York, NY 10036
• 212/819-9770, ext. 305
• 212/819-9776 fax
• www.siecus.org
• mrodriguez_at_siecus.org