Real Essentials - Starting Point Real Essentials – Starting Point A fun and engaging curriculum specially designed to successfully launch children into adolescence. It teaches relationship skills that reduce friendship drama and enhance confidence and social success. Everything changes for kids as they approach their teenage years. These formative milestones can be overwhelming for both parents and their children. The REAL Essentials Starting Point curriculum equips educators and parents with lessons to jump-start conversation and develop foundational relationship skills in this new life stage. All lessons are inclusive, evidence based and medically accurate. Activity based lessons prepare students to better understand and address: • What makes students special as individuals and understand unique qualities in others • Skills for establishing healthy friendships and strengthening personal character qualities • How external influences like social media and advertising affect relationships • Effective communication techniques, including how to understand and communicate and make healthy decisions • Setting personal goals for the short-term and long-term future • Physical and emotional changes that occur with body growth and development, including approachable ways to discuss grooming and hygiene REAL Essentials Starting Point curriculum arrives with: • Full access to online resources, including: o Classroom materials o Training videos o Research o Educator resources • Fuel Gauge t-shirt Item must be exact. No substitutions. ADPH reserves the right to not award based on budget restrictions. Questions, Contact Rebekah Smay at 334-206-5943 Real Essentials - Starting Point; Real Essentials - Advance Real Essentials – Advance This popular, innovative curriculum is being used across the country to teach high school students critical relationship skills and practical approaches for navigating the social dynamics of friendship and love . Its unique, modular format allows for flexible, individualized use. REAL Essentials Advance is the country’s leading relationship education curriculum. It is specifically designed to equip adults to teach young people skills for combating challenges they face in adolescence. Lesson content captivates the heart and directs students toward positive decision making. The sexual health components of REAL Essentials Advance are SRA (Sexual Risk Avoidance) approved. All lessons are inclusive, evidence based and medically accurate. Activities prepare students to better understand and address: • Their individual identity and how it impacts relationships • How to recognize and respect differences in others • Effective communication techniques for navigating conflict and expressing oneself • How to develop healthy dating strategies and ideas for staying connected with good friends • Safe social media guidelines and viewing advertisements through an accurate lens • Creating vision and applying it to future dreams and success • The benefits of commitment and marriage • Developing leadership skills for gaining future employment and keeping a job • Sex in the context of love and its effect on whole person health REAL Essentials Advance curriculum arrives with: • Full access to online resources, including: o Classroom materials o Training videos o Research o Educator resources • Fuel Gauge t-shirt Item must be exact. No substitutions. ADPH reserves the right to not award based on budget restrictions. Questions, Contact Rebekah Smay at 334-206-5943 Real Essentials - Advance
