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The Comprehensive Life skills and Health Education (CLHE) curriculum is designed to help youth in Nigeria face the challenges of growing up, to help them make decisions about their sexual health, and to prepare them for work in the future. 

 The challenges affecting youth today are all too visible. The growing numbers of teenage pregnancies, school dropouts, drug use, social, sexual, and reproductive health problems like rape, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), are all indicators that many youths are simply unable to cope. The CLHE module can help young people by providing them with correct information and skills to adopt healthy behaviors and to stay safe through the ever changing and challenging time of adolescence.

For young men and women, adolescence is a time filled with excitement, new feelings, many unanswered questions, changes, and difficult choices. Young people must also begin to think about the skills needed for their future work. They will need to know the facts about their own sexuality and learn skills to help them plan for happy futures and healthy lives. During this time, they will have relationships with peers of the same and opposite sex. At the same time, they will need to have respectful, loving relationships with family members and will need to learn about making decisions on their own. Young people must also learn to deal with new feelings about sexuality, their physical and emotional changes, and how to make responsible decisions about reproduction and parenthood.  With the CLHE, young people will be able to learn more about these changes and the right steps to take.

The Comprehensive Life Skills & Health Education

curriculum is a simple guide that focuses on three important issues young people face: 

  • Recognizing the importance of adhering to personal values.
  • Learning more about how bodies function and dealing with sexual and reproductive changes, feelings, and behaviors.
  • Thinking about and planning for the future.

The Comprehensive Life Skills & Health Education

modules will help young people find out who they are now, where they are heading, who they hope to become, and how to get to where they want to be, providing many activities that you can use to help:

  • Gain information about yourself and your sexuality, including how to prevent pregnancy and avoid STIs, including HIV, and AIDS, and to learn more about preparing for the work world.
  • Better understand their feelings about growing up, gender roles, risk taking, sexual behavior, and friendship.
  • Practise making decisions, setting goals, communicating clearly, negotiating for their own health, and not giving into negative peer pressure.
The CLHE

Curriculum Objectives

curriculum is designed as a series of modules; with about 8 modules each module is about 20mins. The main curriculum objectives are to provide Nigerian youth with a chance to: 

Learn more about themselves

what they like to do, what they are good at doing, how they feel about key issues (such as family and personal values), and identify what influences their developing feelings and choices.

Identify what they want to happen in their lives

help them work towards building good futures by planning for work and deciding about parenthood, and help them to meet their goals.

Strengthen their knowledge and skills

In three areas; sexuality, planning a family, and communication.