Essay On Community Level Intervention

In order to curb the sexually transmitted infection outbreak on campus I would employ a community level intervention. The intervention would take place in the on campus residences. I believe this is the best place to start implementing the intervention, because if students learn safe sex behaviours in their first year of university they will be more likely to carry these behaviours with them through the rest of their time at Laurier and hopefully after they graduate. The intervention will focus on peer education and have the dons educate their students by getting them to participate in games and fun learning activities.

In order to employ a harm reduction approach to my intervention, I would have the dons explain that they are aware that their students will be using drugs and alcohol and that they are always available regarding any safety concerns of any drug related incident. The dons will explain to the students how the use …show more content…
It will also empower the students to make their own choices based on the information they are given. As we know sex can be impulsive and if the students already have condoms on them then hopefully that would result in more students being prepared if a sexual encounter happens that they were not expecting. Also this approach takes into consideration the economic determinants of health as students tend to suffer financially and might not want to spend that money on condoms if they do not think they have to. By providing free condoms to the students you are eliminating the economic factor for having safe sex. I would evaluate the success of my intervention by having anonymous surveys at the beginning and the end of the year. The games will be implemented after the first anonymous survey is collected and recorded. That way I could get a rough understanding whether or not my intervention was successful or