by Family Life Council of Greater Greensboro
A Multi-Session Program for Young Men

Our special Young Men's Program is designed specifically to meet the needs of boys and young men as they work towards a deeper sense of themselves and their own power, especially as it relates to health and responsibility. We are happy to work to tailor multi-sessions to meet the needs of your group.

Curriculum Overview

Wise Guys: Male Responsibility Curriculum, by Family Life Council of Greater Greensboro is a program for 10-17 year old males that relates responsibility and teen pregnancy prevention to self-esteem, values, healthy relationships, human sexuality, decision-making, and goal setting. The curriculum is designed to prevent adolescent pregnancy by reaching adolescent males. The program acknowledges young males as "whole" individuals with a variety of needs and desires. Participatory lessons and activities focus on assisting them to ask themselves the questions: Who am I?; Where am I going?; and How do I get there?. In 2001, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy presented an award to the Wise Guys program of Greensboro for its leadership in helping young men reduce their risk of unplanned parenthood and sexually transmitted diseases. The program was recently declared a model program nationwide by the Urban Institute and the Sociometrics Corporation. It also was one of fourteen curriculums highlighted in the Oregon Teen Pregnancy Prevention Action Agenda's guide to research based effective curricula, put out by the Oregon Department of Education and Oregon Department of Human Services.

Goals of the curriculum

Wise Guys is committed to:

• Empowering young men with the knowledge they need to make effective decisions.
• Encouraging young men to respect themselves as well as others.
• Helping young men understand the importance of responsibility, particularly sexual responsibility.
• Helping young men improve communication with parents, educators, peers and others.

Structure of our Young Men's Groups

Wise Guys includes many lesson plans. Sections cover each of the following topics through interactive activities:

• Self-Esteem
• Personal and Family Values
• Communication and "Masculinity"
• Sexuality
• Dating Violence
• Abstinence and Contraception
• Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Goal-Setting
• Decision-Making
• Parenthood

We choose lesson plans for the group based on the group's unique needs, adding lessons from other curriculum as needs arise. We will work with your group to determine the most appropriate lessons for participants.

Although the group is educational in nature, this program will be facilitated in a way that is flexible and responsive to the directions in which the participants take it. We ask that group leaders allow for time for follow-up either on their own part or for the group's facilitator in order to better address some of the complex issues that may be raised during group.

Values that form the base of the program

Our young men's groups have as its thesis that every young person has incredible power, intelligence, strength and resiliency. The groups offered through this program work to build on the strengths that all people have, with a particular emphasis on the needs of young men.