What Is Sexual Risk Avoidance?

Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) Education is an education approach that is based on a recognized and often-used public health model known as "risk avoidance" or "primary prevention."  This approach gives teens information and skills to help them avoid all the possible negative consequences of teen sexual activity and is the most comprehensive and holistic approach to sexual education. SRAE focuses on the real-life struggles that teens face as they navigate through the difficult adolescent years in the midst of an increasingly sexually saturated society. SRAE realizes that engaging in sexual activity outside of a life-long, committed relationship can potentially affect teens not only their physical health (STIs and pregnancy) but also, as research shows, can have emotional, psychological, social, economic, and educational consequences both immediately and in the long-term.