NCSD’s Adolescent Sexual Team Visits Idaho

Last week, Sara Stahlberg and I traveled to Idaho for the kick-off meeting of a new project with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW) and the Idaho Department of Education (IDE)—Increasing the Capacity of Health Departments to Prevent HIV and STDs in Adolescents (10-19 years old) Through CDC-Developed School-Based Approaches for Health Education, Health Services.

During the meeting, we worked with the IDHW and IDE to develop a 14-month action plan and health education logic model for delivering regional sexual health education trainings to educators in three regions: Pocatello, Coeur d’Alene, and Boise. We also conducted a site visit to a school in Boise to meet with school nurses and teachers from multiple school districts to discuss the challenges they face delivering sexual health education and what they need to prevent HIV/STDs in their communities. During the site visit, IDHW, IDE, and NCSD toured the school-based health center located on the school grounds and learned about the wide array of services the health center offers students.