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www.komm-auf-tour.de
komm auf Tour Conference on the Health of Young
People Be Healthy, be Yourself July 9-10,
2009 Ilona Renner Federal Centre for Health
Education, BZgA Germany
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komm auf TourLow Level Education and Teenage
PregnanciesGoals of komm auf TourJoin in
circuit AccessibilitySustainabilityEvaluatio
n
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Problem Low Level Education and Teenage
Pregnancies

• I. Education
• 7.3 leave school without school leaving
  certificate (2007)
• 6 of all German pupils
• 16 of all migrant pupils
• 17 of young adults have not completed any
  vocational training
• gt poor expectations on the job market

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Problem Low Level Education and Teenage
Pregnancies

• II. Teenage Pregnancies (2007)
• 5,812 live births from girls younger than 18
• 6,175 pregnancy terminations by girls younger
  than 18
• 11,987 teenager pregnancies in 2007

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Problem Low Level Education and Teenage
Pregnancies

• Low education and risk of early pregnancy are
  linked
• very early motherhood makes it more difficult to
  finish school or vocational training with
  certificate
• the risk of early pregnancy is five times higher
  for pupils of Hauptschule than for pupils of
  Gymnasium
• (BZgA 2009 Pregnancy and Pregnancy Terminations
  in Women under the Age of 18)
• Early motherhood is seen as an alternative to a
  professional career by young people with poor
  prospects on the labour market

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Goals of komm auf Tour

• Target Group
• Pupils of Hauptschule (12 - 13 years old)
• Main Goals
• Connection of
• professional orientation programs
• life planning programs
• Discover their own abilities
• Reflexion process on future options should be
  started

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Implementation

• Strategy Personal communication
• Join in circuit interactive information and
  education tool
• Accessibility
• Part of the curricula of Hauptschule
• Sustainability
• Teacher training
• Cooperation with locally relevant institutions
• Cooperation with parents

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Join in circuit

• Join in circuit 500 m2
• at out-of-school location generally a factory
  building or town hall
• Time needed 2 hours
• 180 pupils per day

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Join in Circuit Stations

• Travel Terminal
• Time Tunnel
• Labyrinth
• Appartment
• Stage

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Join in Circuit Principles

• select tasks at each station
• solve tasks
• examples
• Pizza for all
• collect orders,
• calculate and order

• Ability buttons for selecting and solving tasks

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Join in Circuit Analysis

• Count ability buttons, go to the main ability
  cabinet, open it
• Communication

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Accessibility

• reach 2007 2008 2009
• teachers 179 1,167 1,899
• parents 331 2,499 3,852
• pupils 3,301 15,357 27,000

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Sustainability On-going Learning for Students

• Take home information sheets on abilities and
  occupational fields
• Follow-up at school
• Follow-up events

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Sustainability Parents

• Letter to Parents
• languages German, Turkish, Russia and Arabic
• Game Card for Parents
• Discussion triggers
• Information Evening

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Sustainability Teachers

• Teacher Guide Booklet
• Workshop
• Teacher Service at the Join in Circuit

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Sustainability Local Partnerships

• Two partnership meetings

Participant institutions / Examples

• Employment Agency
• Management of the transition from school to job
  training
• Career Guidance
• Guilds of Craftsmen
• Training organisations
• Youth Service Agency
• Health Agency
• Advisory Centres

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Evaluation of the Pilot (2007)

• Some Results
• No obstacles to participation
• The project is highly accepted by pupils,
  teachers, parents
• 12 13 year old pupils of Hauptschule could
  well be reached with the hands-on-approach
• The pupils stated that they discovered abilities
  and start reflecting about their future
• Attitudes about occupation and family changed

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Selection of Useful Links for Young People

• www.schwanger-unter-20.de
• www.loveline.de
• www.rauch-frei.info
• www.drugcom.de
• www.du-bist-staerker-als-alkohol.de

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Thank You for Your Attention ilona.renner_at_bzga.de
www.bzga.de