This Street Smart manual aims to have participants know the relative safety of different sexual behaviors, assess the safety of their own sexual behavior, and start to learn how to avoid sexual risk.
The purpose of this session is to provide participants an understanding of why using condoms is essential to practicing safer sex. Participants will be able to evaluate condoms, demonstrate skills in using both male and female condoms, and learn to decrease their anxiety about condom use.
The main point of this session is for the participants to be able to identify how drugs and alcohol affect their thinking and choices. The model is presented here in order to help potential users understand that what they must control are the triggers that stimulate drug thoughts and beliefs. Once the thoughts and beliefs are activated, stopping the movement toward cravings and use is extremely difficult.