PULSE Journey Week # 2

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I had trained “Parent-child Communication to Promote Sexually Healthy Youth” to implement community – base for parenting education

Almost participants are the People living with HIV/AIDS network and the officer from the Ministry of Public Health.


The program contents including:• Adult-teen communication about sex
• If more adults were prepared to have positive encounter, more teens would have the support they need
• Good listening skills and non-judgmental attitudes are key manners for becoming trusted source for adolescents

Objectives: By the end of the 2-day workshop, participants will have

1. Explored and examined social environments that surrounded and challenged young people these days
2. Analyzed generation gaps regarding values and lifestyle which affects the interaction and communication between parents and teenage children
3. Assessed one own values regarding sex, sexuality, and sexual health
4. Identified the importance of being open-minded and non-judgmental towards diverse values regarding sexuality
5. Practiced necessary skills for parents that will enhance effective communication with their teenage children
6. Applied communication skills for constructive conversations with young people on sex, sexuality and sexual health

Workshop Agenda
Parent-child Communication
to Promote Sexually Healthy Youth



Day 1 Activity 1 Workshop Introduction
Warm-up, self-introduction, workshop expectation, workshop objectives and agenda, ground rules

Activity 2 Being a Parent
To explore and share the feeling of being a parent

Activity 3 Youth Situation Analysis
To review the situation that youth is facing today and identify the hidden and challenging conditions related to sexual behaviors

Activity 4 Understanding about Sex and Sexuality
To distinguish the differences between the terms "sex" and "sexuality”, explore the different components of sexuality, and identify source of learning about sexuality of young people as well as the importance of parents in communicating about sex with children

Activity 5 Being Young
To raise awareness and understanding about youth - nature, critical period, challenges that young people face today as well as to recognize that adolescents can make good choices and decisions if they have complete information, healthy attitudes and necessary skills


Activity 6 Sexual Values Clarification
To understand one own attitudes and values towards sexual behaviors and be aware of not being judgmental of others who may have different views or opinion

Day 2 Activity 7 Warm-up and Recap
To recapitulate the day-one learning

Activity 8 Talking about sex to young people
To examine the complication and challenges young people face about their sexuality and sexual life and explore one’s feeling towards sexual related questions from teens

Activity 9 Effective Communication: Road Blocks and Building Blocks
To explore how their verbal and non-verbal communication either hinders or facilitates effective communication with their teen.

Activity 10 Active Listening
To describe how using active listening skills can increase their teens' sense of being supported emotionally by them as parents and how it can increase their connectedness with their children; identify barriers to active listening and ways to overcome those barriers; and practice and demonstrate effective active listening skills.

Activity 11 Time to Talk
To apply communication skills in practicing discussing about sex with young adult

Activity 12 Workshop closure and evaluation
To gain feedback from participants regarding what they have learned and suggestions for future training


This training will be completed that all participants are able to coach parents in communities. That is called “Facilitator” or trainer. I myself and Team did train to 20 parents who were very kindness and humble people. Our team are very fantastic collaborators and facilitators that we have learnt whilst we did training, reflection what we should do develop for future.

For the participants they had met all objectives from above and they also got more learning regarding sexual healthy, open minded and good listening skill more than previous one.
They were impressive our team coaching and would love us to come back again.

PULSE Journey Week # 1

About PULSE Volunteering Programme
Launched in April 2009, PULSE is GSK’s new initiative that empowers employees to make a significant difference in impoverished communities, at home or abroad. Transformational change can happen when employees use, share and pass on their professional skills and knowledge during a 3 or 6 month immersion experience within a non-profit or non-governmental organization (NGO). Volunteers address a clear NGO need whilst developing their own leadership capabilities.
“There will be a real opportunity and a chance for those people who really feel they want to give something back to society to do that. It is a great chance for our company and the individual to add tremendous value which otherwise
The name PULSE suggests the positive ripple effect that will emanate from the “pulse” of GSK volunteers working within impoverished communities – either in their own country or across the globe. PULSE volunteers will be answering a call to “Be the Change”. In this way, the PULSE programme and volunteers will be catalysts for philanthropic, personal and business benefit and development
GSK has created a range of ways for employees to “Do More” through volunteering and financial support to communities, as shown in the spectrum above. The PULSE programme, represented on the right-hand side of the spectrum, is an intensive option for employees to “Do More” through volunteer partnership with a humanitarian NGO


About NGO (PATH Organization)
PATH: A catalyst for global health

PATH is an international, nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. By collaborating with diverse public- and private-sector partners, PATH helps provide appropriate health technologies and vital strategies that change the way people think and act. PATH improves global health and well-being.
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, since its inception in 1977, PATH operates 19 offices in 14 countries. PATH’s 2005 budget is US$99 million, which is provided by foundations, the U.S. government, other governments, multilateral agencies, corporations, and individuals. PATH’s ten-member board of directors consists of representatives from countries where PATH works, including the United States. For more information, please visit www.path.org.

PATH in Thailand
PATH is recognized by Thailand International Development Cooperation Agency (TICA), previously called the Department of Technical and Economic Cooperation (DTEC), under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand. PATH has been active in Thailand since 1980 and has collaborated with health and development ministries and local provincial government offices, universities, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in developing communication interventions to enhance the quality of life of the underserved segments of the population, particularly women and children. Our strategies focus on multidisciplinary perspectives, community-based interventions, participatory learning and action, as well as institutional capacity building.

PATH’s current programs and activities in Thailand• Technical support for the mobilization and design of behavior change communication for adolescent sexual health, including the reduction of HIV/AIDS risks.
• Promotion of youth sexual health and sexual rights through school education, youth-led activities, and contemporary media including website and interactive computer technology (ICT) in the format of interactive role-play games.
• Promotion of sexual health for high-risk groups such as MSM (men who have sex with men) and transgender people.
• Facilitation of client-friendly health delivery systems and improving access to health services for HIV prevention, sexual health, maternal and child health, and immunization among youth, migrants and families, including ethnic minorities and refugees.
• Technical support and policy advocacy for strengthening primary health care systems, and environmental sanitation to protect the health status of ethnic workers and communities, including refugees.
• Technical assistance to government and NGOs in research, analysis, development of sustainable models of community-based interventions, public education, information, education and communication (IEC) materials, institutional capacity building, and program evaluation.
• Field testing of new health technologies developed by PATH in Seattle, including technology introduction and transfer to both the public and private sectors for sustainable development.
My assignments (Srisaket province site)
• Youth sexual reproductive health services.
• Promoting sexuality education in schools.
• Assist the People living with HIV/AIDS network to deliver Parenting education to improve parent child communicated of sexuality.


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Where is Sirsaket province?


It has located in northeast area from Bangkok, Thailand.

On Saturday 7, I arrived Ubolratchathani Airport, Ubolratchathani province where’s distant from BKK around 600 km (Northeast area from Thailand) then went to the capital city of Srisaket province where the PATH office has located (60 km distant from Ubolratchathani province).


Week#1: August 2010


On Sunday 8, I went to the temple for prayed respect the lord of Buddha that is the prior moral and our faith for Thai people who came from other areas that should visit once time , I also discoursed with the deputy abbot he appreciated with me whilst talking about volunteering and PULSE assignment , I would love to be back the temple for meditation on holidays. The one symbol is very important and don’t miss it for praying respect is The Srisaket city pillar shrine (Thai called Lak Muang, and all provinces in Thailand have its similar shrines were built in strategical provinces to symbolize the central power).









On Monday 9, the first day of my assignment I met Teenpath team and my supervisor we had a meeting and provided presentation, materials for workshop on 10-11 August.
On Tuesday and Wednesday 10-11, I had training with the leader network for HIV/AIDS , with parents, and with the representative of Ministry of Public Health we did workshop regarding sexuality youth behavior . We also mobilized and designed how to change communication for adolescent sexual health behavior and how to reduce HIV/AIDS risks.




This workshop we have received more learning and understanding both children and parents, all participants did feedback, some activities we pretended to be children that why we could feeling children side, some parents cried whilst did workshop and their do more understand with their children.
Even 3 days I have been working with NGO team, with the network of HIV, with parents and with the representative from MPH , I was very appreciated with them that they sacrificed working with social and helping other, I touched them what were they feeling with their children, how much of loving and also always willingness for protection their beloved children.




One of my impression, almost parents they are famer they used motorcycle long distance over 100 km round trip, even the weather was hot sometimes raining but they were effort to do this workshop and whilst the workshop they did great participation. I love it that is meant the efficiency communication.
Almost of them said be thankful for PATH team for providing this training “that was very wonderful and so great knowledge” they never known before and also they will open minded about sexual health education and will be continue teaching and giving education to their children and other.



Note:

NGO : Nonprofit organization
GSK : GlaxoSmithKline (Thailand) Limited.
PATH : NGO partner for GSK
Teenpath : part of PATH project which has been working for adolescent sexual health education.
Network of HIV/AIDS : The leader in community who have worked for helping and collaboration about HIV/AIDS prevention and reduction.
Parent : The parent who have children and adolescent.
MPH : The Ministry of Public Health
The representative of MPH : The representative officer who have working for Ministry of Public Health (Province , District and Sub district ministration organization, hospital, Social development service etc.)