Participants and Adolescent Reached
states covered ( Enugu,Abia,Imo,Delta )
LGA Covered
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.
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.
The intervention curriculum focuses on the following:
Many parents and caregivers need support to effectively define and convey their values and expectations about sexual behavior and to communicate to their children important
