Project AIM (Adult Identity Mentoring) is a pregnancy and sexual transmitted disease prevention program for middle school youth ages 11-14. Two SexEdVA staff facilitate the 12-session long program, which meets twice a week for 6 weeks.

Project AIM provides motivation for youth to reduce risky behavior by helping them envision their future and articulate their goals for a successful adulthood.

  • Through group activities and youth-generated content, youth discuss life goals – and the risks that may get in the way of achieving them

  • Youth consider how their own behaviors might promote or impede the development of their future self-identities

  • Youth use a career game inventory to identify future careers that align with their current interests

SexEdVA’s SRAE program utilizes the Project AIM curriculum.

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LEGACIES: Project AIM’s Core Elements

Look ahead

Envision a future self

Goal-set for future

Articulate details of future self

Communicate effectively

Identify strengths/resources

Experience success

Safeguard future self

Project AIM by the numbers (2019-20)

Skyline Middle School: 85 participants

On the Road Collaborative (after-school program): 24 participants

Thomas Harrison Middle School: 62 participants

Page Middle School: 87 participants

Luray Middle School: 53 participants

Total: 311 student participants

 

Participants by Gender

Male (85, 26.7%) / Female (223, 70.1%) / Other (10, 3.1%)

Participants by Race

American Indian or Alaska Native or Native American (4, 1.3%) / Asian (7, 2.3%) / Black or African American (25, 8.1%) / Multi-racial (31, 10.1%) / Other (67, 21.8%) / Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian (2, 0.6%) / White (172, 55.8%)
 

Participants by Ethnicity

Hispanic or Latino (90, 34.0%) / Non-Hispanic or Latino (175, 66.0%)