A sure thing,not just a fad: youth-to-youth approach to health and sexuality issues

The Foundation for Adolescent Development, Inc. (FAD) has been addressing adolescent health and sexuality and development issues since its establishment. It has implemented programs and services that are dedicated in promoting and popularizing the view that sexuality covers the total development of persons. This article focuses on the experiences of the FAD in running the Manila Center for Young Adults. Utilizing a peer education or youth-to-youth approach to provide information, counseling and sexuality issues, this campus-based project reaches out to students of colleges and universities in Metro Manila. The varied experiences in the implementation of the project are reflected in the work areas, including needs assessment research, advocacy, capacity-building, emergence of core group structure, program sustainability mechanism, and evaluation. Such experiences are documented in a book developed and produced by FAD. The book is divided into two parts: part I contains the project concept, the capacity-building framework, and the experiences in implementing the model; part II provides supplements for reference materials.