The Nagaland Board of School Education and Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS) jointly will be conducting a one-day training programme under the Adolescence Education Programme (AEP) for Kohima and Tseminyu teachers on the 12th September 2023 from 9:30AM to 2:45PM at Red Cross Society, Conference Hall, Kohima, DIPR informed.
Further, the same will be conducted through online mode for teachers under Mokokchung, Tuensang, Mon, Phek, Wokha, Zunheboto, Dimapur, Chümoukedima, Niuland, Kiphire, Longleng, Peren, Noklak and Shamator districts on the 15th September 2023 from 10:00AM to 12:30PM.
The Adolescence Education Programme (AEP) is a joint initiative by Ministry of Education (MoE), Department of School Education & Literacy and National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), Government of India, to equip every adolescent (Child between 10-19 years) with scientific information, knowledge and life-skills to protect themselves from HIV infection and manage their concerns pertaining to reproductive and sexual health. AEP covers all the secondary and higher secondary schools of the country.
In Nagaland, the NSACS have been conducting training programmes for teachers under Adolescence Education Programme since 2010 with the objective to provide accurate age appropriate life skills based adolescence education in a sustained manner in schools and provide structured education to enhance knowledge and skills of adolescents to deal with challenges of life.
Some of the areas to be discussed under this training are as follows:
- HIV/AIDS and STI
- HIV & AIDS (P&C), Act 2017
- Growing up and Adolescence Reproductive Sexual Health
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse
NBSE has directed all Heads of Registered Institutions under Kohima and Tseminyu districts have been requested to take note of the importance of this training and depute 1 (One) teacher to attend the meeting positively. The attendance of teachers from all the registered schools is compulsory and will be monitored.
It also informed all the Heads of Registered Institutions under Mokokchung, Tuensang, Mon, Phek, Wokha, Zunheboto, Dimapur, Chümoukedima, Niuland, Kiphire, Longleng, Peren, Noklak and Shamator districts to take note of the importance of this training and depute 1 (One) teacher to attend the online meeting positively.
The registration link for the training programme would be shared later in the district WhatsApp groups and email ID of the schools, NBSE informed.
