
Stepping Stones with Children
A transformative training for children affected by HIV and their caregivers
Published: 2016
Pages: 450
eBook: 9781780448930
Paperback: 9781853398940
View a collection of films about the Stepping Stones with Children programme:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/3822203
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and acronyms
Stepping Stones with Children Book 1
Introduction
Session 1: Getting started
Session 2: Using our brains
Session 3: Gender and sex
Session 4: Child rights and sexual and reproductive rights
Session 5: The tree of life
Session 6: How to be assertive
Session 7: All about virtues
Session 8: The power of love
Session 9: Bringing out the best in each other
Session 10: Coping with loss and the tree of love
Session 11: Understanding death and coping with our feelings
Session 12: All about HIV
Session 13: Testing for HIV and talking about it
Session 14: Living well with HIV
Session 15: Partners in health care
Stepping Stones with Children Book 2
Session 16: Friendship
Session 17: Going to school
Session 18: Managing alcohol and other drugs
Session 19: When we are growing up
Session 20: Relationships, love and sex
Session 21: Our sexual feelings and sexual safety
Session 22: Pornography
Session 23: Delaying, starting, and stopping having sex
Session 24: All about condoms
Session 25: Children by choice not chance
Session 26: Protecting each other from sexual abuse
Session 27: Supporting survivors of sexual abuse
Session 28: Learning and contributing
Session 29: Livelihoods
‘This is a very important manual for children and caregivers. It will help support the building of closer relationships through meaningful communication that helps children and caregivers overcome barriers and build a close and supportive family unit.’
Martha Tholanah, Global Chair, International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
‘Programmes and manuals like Stepping Stones with Children can make the difference for a human being between a healthy development and a vision of a world with possibility, and in the most extreme cases life overshadowed by death.’
L'Orangelis Thomas, a young woman living with HIV
Gill Gordon
Gill Gordon has over 30 years’ experience of working in the development sector, and is a social development and health promotion specialist with particular expertise in gender, sexuality, reproductive health (and its integration with HIV), community-based participatory approaches and curriculum development .