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Health Curriculum for Adolescents

Teenage Health Teaching Modules (THTM) is HHD’s comprehensive health curriculum for grades 6 to 12. Organized around important questions of concern to today’s adolescents, the curriculum modules contain titles such as Acting to Create a Healthy Environment, Growing into Healthy Sexuality, and Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders: Thinking and Acting to Prevent Violence.

The curriculum features engaging teaching strategies such as role-playing, small-group work, case studies, and family communication activities. A third-party national evaluation demonstrated the importance of teacher training to achieve student outcomes. THTM is noted to be one of the U.S. Department of Education’s “Promising Programs.”

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Teenage Health Teaching Modules
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Education Development Center, Inc.
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Highlights of Our Work

  • Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk for Mental Health Professionals
  • Health Curriculum for Adolescents
  • Our Children’s Healthy Futures Program for Parents
  • Strengthening Cancer Control Efforts Worldwide
  • Web-Based Courses for Substance Abuse Prevention Practitioners

Reach and Impact

Our Teenage Health Teaching Modules curriculum, currently used in 49 U.S. states and in five other countries, can significantly influence adolescent health. An independent evaluation found that the curriculum produced positive effects on students' health knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported behaviors.


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