Love U2: Getting Smarter About Relationships, Sex, Babies, and Marriage is a new kind of curriculum for teens. It looks beyond the dos and don’ts of sex to the context of sexuality: namely, relationships. Its goal is to help young people acquire practical skills and useful knowledge for forming emotionally healthy, mutually respectful, and ethically sound relationships.
But Love U2 is about more than skills or facts. It focuses on helping teens craft a North Star vision of healthy relationships that will guide their own behavior. Teens today live and breathe in a culture emphasizing casual sex and casual connections where no relationship can be trusted to last and where even the most important family bonds can’t be counted on. Indeed for some teens, sex is seen simply as a transaction. Teens are short on positive models. They have few roadmaps that will lead them into healthy relationships and away from destructive ones. Love U2 aims at giving teens a positive, inspirational model for committed and healthy love relationships. This curriculum is about what teens can hope to achieve, not just what they must try to avoid. This program will be offered along with Welcome to The Real World curriculum developed by University of Illinois Extension.
Welcome to the Real World!
The Welcome to the Real World! Program consists of four parts: career exploration, expenditure decision making, money management, and choice evaluation. The program is an active, hands-on experience which gives young people the opportunity to explore career opportunities and make lifestyle and budget choices similar to those adults face on a daily basis. In this simulation of the real world, participants are to assume that they have completed basic educational requirements for their chosen career and are single, 25 years of age, and independent with no financial support from family or others. The participants explore potential careers or occupations that they would like to pursue in the future. After they choose an occupation, they receive a monthly salary for the occupation and then proceed through the Real World activity, deducting taxes, determining savings amount, and spending their "salary" on the necessary and luxury items that reflect the occupation and lifestyle they have chosen.
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The Welcome to the Real World! Program consists of four parts: career exploration, expenditure decision making, money management, and choice evaluation. The program is an active, hands-on experience which gives young people the opportunity to explore career opportunities and make lifestyle and budget choices similar to those adults face on a daily basis. In this simulation of the real world, participants are to assume that they have completed basic educational requirements for their chosen career and are single, 25 years of age, and independent with no financial support from family or others. The participants explore potential careers or occupations that they would like to pursue in the future. After they choose an occupation, they receive a monthly salary for the occupation and then proceed through the Real World activity, deducting taxes, determining savings amount, and spending their "salary" on the necessary and luxury items that reflect the occupation and lifestyle they have chosen.