“Promoting Internet Safety and Healthy Relationships: Adapting Digital Citizenship Lessons for Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities”
“To support PREP programming, ACF contracted with Mathematica to conduct the PREP: Promising Youth Programs (PREP-PYP) project. One aim of PREP-PYP was to develop or adapt sexual health curricula for underserved populations. FYSB selected youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) as a focal population and identified content on internet safety with a focus on healthy online relationships as a gap in existing curricula. To help fill that gap, the PREP-PYP team adapted two lessons from Digital Citizenship, a K—12 curriculum developed by Common Sense Education and Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to build skills for youth to have healthy relationships in person and online. The two adapted lessons are (1) Chatting and Red Flags and (2) Rewarding Relationships.”