Session 1 provides parents with an understanding of the purpose and goals of FMP. It includes information on child and adolescent development, and raises parents’ awareness of the unique role they have in influencing their children’s participation in healthy and safe behaviors.

Session 2 shows parents that it is still their role to guide children even as they grow older, and supports parents in strengthening their parenting skills that support and reinforce risk reduction. Parents work to build strong positive relationships with their children, to improve parent–child communication, and to supervise their children.

Session 3 helps parents understand the realities of adolescent sexual behavior. It explains why parents are uniquely suited to deliver sexual risk prevention messages; provides information on social, physical, and emotional development; and describes how parents can raise sexually healthy children.

Session 4 helps parents embrace the knowledge, skills, comfort, and confidence needed to engage their children in meaningful, sensitive, and timely discussions about sexual issues and sexual risk reduction. It provides additional sexual and reproductive health information on family planning, sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, medical male circumcision, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, HIV testing and counseling, and referrals and linkages to local resources. It also helps parents become more aware of their own sexual values and how to communicate those values to their children and introduces communication tools for parents when having sex-related talks with their children.

Session 5 lets parents continue to practice the skills they learned by providing time for them to interact and engage in direct communication and skills building practice with their 9- to 12-year-old child. The session also presents a 4-step parenting plan to help children resist peer pressure.

The Booster Session reviews the key points of FMP and provides parents an opportunity to discuss the challenges they faced in putting the skills they learned in FMP to use.