Senior High Index

			Senior High Index

About Sexual Abuse

Fred Ward and Betty Ward

Theme and Description Offers exercises that help break the silence about abusive behavior. Focusing on information, pre vention, and reporting, the program is organized into sections that reflect the approach described in About Your Sexuality: initiation, interaction, investigation, and internalization.

In Our Hands

Eleanor Hunting, Virginia Lane, and Harold Rosen

Theme and Description Involves young people in considering the nature and meaning of peace and social justice. They ex plore some or all of the following topics: the nature of conflict, conflict management and resolution, paths to peace and justice, common UU faithstances and their relationship to peace and justice, peacemakers and justice-builders, critical peace and justice issues, the ways people act for peace and justice, and UU worship services for peace and justice. Participants are invited to undertake both a social action project and a peace and social justice worship service for their congregation. The program ends with reflection and celebration.

Life Issues for Teenagers

Wayne Arnason and Cheryl Markoff Powers

Theme and Description A structured program for 15 to 18 year olds that explores ethical, social, and political issues and concerns important in the lives of teenagers. Covers values, family dynamics, sex roles, peer pressure and conformity, sexual expression, crisis intervention, choices in drug and alcohol use, loss and grief, and spiritual identity.

On The Path

Wayne Arnason, Janet Harvey, David Levine, David Marshak, Makanah Morriss, Christine Robinson, and Mara Lyn Schoeny

Theme and Description A structured program that explores the nature and meaning of spirituality in the lives of teenagers in grades 10 to 12, and adults.

Sacred Threads

Jeff Liebmann

Theme: Asian Religions

Description: Sacred Threads helps youth identify unique elements of modern Asian religions and recognize characteristics that these religions share with each other and with Unitarian Universalism. It helps youth explore how attributes of these other religions have relevance to their own spiritual journeys. Sacred Threads also helps youth understand the nature of religion in human society, both as it influences their own lives as well as the relations among communities and nations. Students first identify basic characteristics common to religions of primitive cultures and the nature of thinking that generally leads people to establish religions. Students then discuss the religions of India(Hinduism, Hinayana Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism), the religions of China (Mahayana Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese Folk Religions), and the religions of Japan (Shintoism and Zen).