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Families Matter Program

Promoting Parent-Child Communication to Eliminate Child Sexual Exploitation

Introduction

Families Matter! Program (FMP), is an evidence-based HIV prevention intervention for parents, guardians, and other primary caregivers of pre adolescent’s ages 9–14 years for FMP 1 and 15 -19 years for FMP 2. It promotes parenting and effective parent-child communication about sexuality and sexual risk reduction, including risk for child sexual abuse and gender-based violence for parents or caregivers/parents. The ultimate goal of FMP is to reduce sexual risk behaviour among adolescents – including delaying onset of sexual debut – by equipping parents/caregivers the knowledge, skills, comfort, and confidence to deliver primary prevention messages to their children and to create a protective environment.

Project objectives

The program is designed to help parents overcome common parent-child communication barriers – such as embarrassment or discomfort and lack of knowledge, skills and confidence – and to enhance parenting skills and practices, including parental monitoring, positive reinforcement and building a strong parent-child relationship. The ultimate goal of FMP is the reduction of sexual risk behaviors among adolescents, including delayed onset of sexual debut.

 

Project Focus

The intervention curriculum focuses on the following: 

  • Raising awareness about the sexual risks teens face today.
  • Encouraging general parenting practices that increase the likelihood that children will not engage in risky sexual behaviors.
  • Improving parents’ ability to effectively communicate with their children about sexuality and sexual risk reduction.
  • Addressing the difficult issues of CSA and GBV through culturally-acceptable and age-appropriate content and highlighting the key role parents can play in protecting their children from CSA and GBV.

Main Activities include

Parent-Child communication activity

Program Manager adressing the participants

Participants receives  their certificate of participation 

Cross section of participants

Project Outcome

participants and adolescent reached
1
states covered ( Enugu,Abia,Imo,Delta )
1
LGA Covered
1

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