ABSTRACT
Arts-based, Multiple-component, Peer-education (AMP!) is a sexual health promotion and HIV-prevention intervention that uses a theatrical approach to deliver sexual health education. AMP!’s interactive theatre approach features scenarios created by college students who base their skits on their own real-life experiences. The students (the Sex Squad) deliver a live performance to ninth-grade students to supplement the standard public school sexual health curriculum. They also conduct workshops using strategies from the Theatre of the Oppressed model to enable youth to engage in a “rehearsal for real life,” providing opportunities to direct the dialog and actions of stage characters and model alternative behaviors. A digital mode of the intervention was piloted and evaluated to assess a potential means of reaching more people. This chapter reports on those results and compares outcomes between the live and digital modes of the intervention, ultimately revealing a promising approach for delivering sexual health education to adolescents.
