HIPE
The purpose of Health Initiatives for Peer Education, HIPE, is to support health education within the Urban community. It complements the Health program, by helping support freshman and sophomore Health curriculum, as well as assisting in the planning of and participation in additional health learning opportunities over the course of the academic year.
Urban's Health Curriculum
FRESHMAN HEALTH
Freshman Health encourages students to gather relevant and current information that will help facilitate informed decision-making in regard to their health. Students will have the opportunity to explore how their own values impact the decisions they make both in the short and long term. Life skills, such as decision-making, values clarification and communication will be emphasized through studying substance use and abuse.
During the six week course, students will:
SOPHOMORE HEALTH
The focus of Sophomore Health is Human Sexuality and Personal Integrity. The course is structured to parallel the lifeline of a romantic relationship from beginning to end with the opportunity to explore other forms of relationships teens may be engaged in. Students receive resources to access medically accurate sex information, and participate in activities and conversation that guides students towards how to apply that information to the complexities of human relationships.
Over the course of the six weeks, students will understand a broad and inclusive definition of sexuality, how their own sexual identity is forming, reproductive anatomy, sexual behaviors, values, relationship dynamics, choice and personal integrity. The goals of the course are:
The purpose of Junior Health at Urban is to solidify/revisit/go deeper into students' understanding of information learned in 9th and 10th grade & to help students act on the knowledge learned and the values they have. Students will use scenarios to highlight issues they may be wrestling with currently.
SENIOR HEALTH
Although the seniors do not have an academic class dedicated to health, Shafia conducts various consent and drug related workshops with them before they leave for college at the end of the year.
Freshman Health encourages students to gather relevant and current information that will help facilitate informed decision-making in regard to their health. Students will have the opportunity to explore how their own values impact the decisions they make both in the short and long term. Life skills, such as decision-making, values clarification and communication will be emphasized through studying substance use and abuse.
During the six week course, students will:
- understand the difference in brain chemistry of natural highs and drug forced high
- differentiate between levels of drug use from abstinence to dependence and addiction
- know the difference between uppers, downers and all arounders
- learn factual information about specific drugs and how to access that information
- understand the influence media has on our knowledge about substances
- identify activities that can boost natural brain chemicals
SOPHOMORE HEALTH
The focus of Sophomore Health is Human Sexuality and Personal Integrity. The course is structured to parallel the lifeline of a romantic relationship from beginning to end with the opportunity to explore other forms of relationships teens may be engaged in. Students receive resources to access medically accurate sex information, and participate in activities and conversation that guides students towards how to apply that information to the complexities of human relationships.
Over the course of the six weeks, students will understand a broad and inclusive definition of sexuality, how their own sexual identity is forming, reproductive anatomy, sexual behaviors, values, relationship dynamics, choice and personal integrity. The goals of the course are:
- To acquire credible, medically accurate information about sexuality.
- To gain a better understanding of moral values and how to practice them daily.
- To practice articulating and standing up for what matters.
- To deconstruct and better understand interpersonal relationship dynamics, and how to navigate the social landscape of high school.
The purpose of Junior Health at Urban is to solidify/revisit/go deeper into students' understanding of information learned in 9th and 10th grade & to help students act on the knowledge learned and the values they have. Students will use scenarios to highlight issues they may be wrestling with currently.
SENIOR HEALTH
Although the seniors do not have an academic class dedicated to health, Shafia conducts various consent and drug related workshops with them before they leave for college at the end of the year.