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• the morning after pill, how / where / what / when
• who's responsibility is contraception?
• what if I get thrown out by my parents?
• can you trust your doctor...will they tell?

Labels: Sex

// posted by Nigel @ Monday, October 31, 2005 0 Comments

• 27.5% of the population are aged over 60, compared with an average of
  20.9% nationally. Only 21.9% of the population are aged between 20 and 39,
  compared to 28.1% nationally
• The highest rate of teenage pregnancy in North Yorkshire, and the highest infant
  mortality rate

• There are 1,800 extra deaths each year in Yorkshire and Humber compared to the
  national average. On average, people die earlier in this region than elsewhere and
  there is no indication that this inequality is decreasing.
• 29% of Yorkshire and Humber wards are in Englands top 20% most deprived.
  Children are much more likely to live in low income or workless households.
• Road traffic accidents are the most significant cause of death in the 1-19 age groups.
• Males aged 1-19 years are almost twice as likely to die from an accidental injury as females in
  the same age group.
• In Yorkshire and Humber region, the death rate from accidental injury in those aged 0-14 years
  is strongly associated with socio-economic status (Figure 7).
• The Teenage Pregnancy Unit estimate that there were nearly 7,000 mothers aged under 20 years
  in the Yorkshire and Humber Region in 2001.
• There were 4,434 conceptions under the age of 18 years in the Yorkshire & Humber Region in
  2001.
• There were 1,632 live births to women aged under 18 years in 2002.
• It is clear that meeting the target of 60% of teenage mothers participating in education,
  employment or training by 2010 remains a significant challenge.
• Levels of educational attainment in Yorkshire and Humber lag behind most other regions, and six of our districts have particular challenges in ensuring that children achieve five or more GCSE passes graded A+-C.
• Yorkshire & Humber region has the second lowest levels of literacy and numeracy among adults in the English regions
• The region educates a large number of graduates (over 26,000 per annum), but only 42% remain in the region. This compares with London and the South East who import 40% more graduates than are educated there.

Labels: Sex, Statistics

// posted by Nigel @ Sunday, October 30, 2005 0 Comments

• 8 mins 30 sec - 15 mins 20 sec. This starts when the caption "4 years later" appears on the screen. Chris with a patient at work (a little girl), his wife calls because she's in a flap at the art gallery where she works. He agrees to take some painting to the gallery to try solve the problem, but at he is involved in a fatal car accident (he gets run over). The scene is not too graphic. The clip finishes when is magically arrives home accompanied by a ghostly figure...people are mourning. The final words are "you don't want to be dead"
• 24 mins 30 sec - 34 mins. Chris leaves the grave yard to go to "heaven". This appears to be a place just like a painting that he and his wife had made...there dream home etc. Where they would retire to. The clip would finish when a bird drops one on his head

Labels: Death, Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Saturday, October 29, 2005 0 Comments

Labels: Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Thursday, October 27, 2005 0 Comments

• About a third through he film, Wallace is in Lady Tottinton's greenhouse (up Jacobs ladder)...he experiences an overwhelming desire to eat all the food...temptation...big carrots...
• Lady Tottinton is clearly against killing rabbits...Victor want to kill them all..you could watch the first part of the film to introduce the subject of animal rights etc.?
• Wallace becomes a kind of Jackal and Hide...what are the 'monsters' hiding inside of us?
• Through out the film Victor shows signs of jealousy towards Wallace...

Labels: Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Wednesday, October 26, 2005 0 Comments

Labels: Sex, Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Sunday, October 23, 2005 0 Comments

• 15 mins..Kenyon discovers he's going to be a father...she tells him she missed her period and passed 3 pregnancy tests
• 35 mins...Kenyons is trying to get it, but can't because the baby is crying...

Labels: Sex, Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Sunday, October 23, 2005 0 Comments

• Brother
• Sister
• Mother / Father
• Cousin
• Boss
• Teacher
• Husband / Wife
• King / Queen
• Celebrity / some on famous
• Terrorist
• Dr Evil
• Super hero
• A Pet
• Cat / dog / horse
• Friend
• Young person
• Old person
• Baby
• Model
• Film star
• Pop idle
• Pretty boy
• Jesus
• God
• Doctor
• Vicar

Labels: Activities

// posted by Nigel @ Friday, October 21, 2005 0 Comments

• What Women Want - Alex gets dumped at the prom because she refuses to have sex with her date
• Kids? - this is probably not a film we can use as it's an 18. It does however look at the consequences of unprotected sex etc...read the write up...it says it's a bit like this years "thirteen" which was a very good film.
• Bellyfruit - I'd have to get a region 1 import, but it follows the story of three teenage mothers...
• Riding in Cars with Boys - the story of a teenage mother...
• Saved! - "When a girl (Jena Malone) attending a Baptist high school becomes pregnant, she finds herself ostracized and demonized"

Labels: Sex, Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Tuesday, October 18, 2005 0 Comments

Labels: Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Sunday, October 16, 2005 0 Comments

Labels: Reflective

// posted by Nigel @ Friday, October 14, 2005 0 Comments

• Scene 7 (42 - 49 mins ish) - she tells the class about what happens after the birth...only one of her friends stuck by her...she has to work some dead end job...
• Scene 9 (57 mins - 59:50ish) - Tina tells her mother how it is. It's kind of a discussion about the consequences of been pregnant.
• Scene 13 - Tina gives birth. There's lots of huffing, puffing, screaming

• 1 hour 17 mins - 1 hour 19 mins. Rizzo owns up to 'skipping a period'. Not a brilliant clip, but could be an option. It would actually work better as a clip about gossip.

• See my talk on abortion...may be we could use the same clip.

• http://www.nya.org.uk/templates/internal.asp?nodeid=90614#Health
• http://parentingteens.about.com/cs/teenssex/l/blbcmyth.htm

Labels: Sex, Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Wednesday, October 12, 2005 0 Comments

Labels: Talks

// posted by Nigel @ Monday, October 10, 2005 0 Comments

• I was thinking that we might be able to use this for some discussion about drugs / booze...after flicking through it this morning, I don't think that it's that suitable...the story is basically about the day after the night before...they can't remember a thing, but it goes around the houses and through a few strip clubs on the way etc.!

• There's a great scene near the end of the film (1 hour 16 ish) where Angus (the king of the winter ball) who is considered 'fat' stands up to the class pretty boy...basically he tells him that he doesn't want to be like anyone else, he wants to be himself...I might used this for the Pathfinders talk: Standing up for yourself

• 38 - 44 mins from the start of the film...Dell is in the bar and this guy comes up to him...he ends up saying 'big nose'...the room fall silent...there's going to be trouble. Dell responds: can't you do any better than that? Anyway Dell ends up taking the mick out of himself...thus humiliating the guy who called him 'big nose'. As Dell leaves, they other guy goes to attack him...Dell decks him...another option for the Pathfinders talk: Standing up for yourself
• 57 mins into the film Dell goes into the chemist shop and tells the woman the he has a female 'friend' who has a facial feature that they'd like to de-emphasise...what cosmetic would you advice...etc...he is of course talking about himself. An option for a future talk on body image.
• 1 hour 7 mins - 1 hour 13 mins.  Chris goes to see Roxanne for the first time...he is trying to impress her with poetry etc. and the messes up when he tells her he wants to get off with her...if you extend the clip you'll see he does eventually seduce her...it could lead to a discussion about dating...romance...what's it about? Is it acceptable to jump into bed the first time you meet etc.

• I did a talk called What does God think about me? You could maybe use the same clip for the Pathfinders talk: Standing up for yourself

• 8 mins 30 sec - 14 mins 30 sec. Harry, Matilda father is giving her a hard time about been smart / wanting to go to school etc. Anyway, she decided to get her own back by putting some peroxide into his hair cream.  I think this is more about revenge than standing up for yourself...but worth noting.

• When Amber is about to be disqualified from the local pageant (her dress was stolen) one of the other girls steps down so that she can use her dress
• There's also a scene where Amber swaps numbers with another girl...she would have gone on first...this girl end up getting killed by a falling light...an idea for a talk on luck?

Labels: Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Saturday, October 08, 2005 0 Comments

• It's all gone Pete Tong - there's lot of bad language in it, but there's a couple of scene's that you might be able to use if you wanted to talk about the addictive effects of coke...chapter 5 and 22. It involves a giant badger.
• Trainspotting
• Starsky and Hutch - I seem to remember that Hutch dabbed with some drugs
• Zoolander  - I think there's a bit about two thirds through the movie when Matilda gets high and does all kinds of crazy things. I'll have to dig out the tape to see if it's relevant.
• I just remembered that I have a copy of Traffic on my self...it's been there for about a year...

• Found this lesson on a YFC site: Talking donkey drugs lession
• Gaging the UK's drugs use
• http://www.hopeuk.org/ have some teaching material that looks at it from a Christian point of view...I think there are some leaflets on there too.
• Spring Harvest have some small leaflets called big issues that look at drugs and other issues
• http://www.drugscope.org.uk/

• Ascension: Clubs, Drugs and the eternal high by Cameron Dante, Craig Borlase
• http://www.licc.org.uk/pdfs/more_e_vicar-jason_gardner.pdf
• A Christian perspective on drug education

• What would are the consequences for the individual, friends, society as a whole? What research is there available?

• Call the Cambridge Centre in Scarborough...see if they have any new leaflets / info they have. Maybe there's something new to report...

Labels: Drugs, Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Thursday, October 06, 2005 0 Comments

• So obvious that I overlooked it: http://www.romanceacademy.org/
• I noticed that CARE have some kind of project / resource called Evaluate...that tries to promote abstinence.  It refers to teenage pregnancy issues.   I've dropped them an email to see how it works.   Care also run a website called care confidential.  This offers free advice to anyone who finds themselves pregnant.  They have a leaflet called options that basically says: parenting, adoption, abortion.  Maybe we could use that in part of the discussion...what would you do etc.

• I found this talk outline for a film called What Dreams May Come on www.myfishbites.com. It looks like a good starting point.
• I did a talk back in 2002 that was based on the movie Ghost...the bit where Sam is mugged / killed...maybe I could adapt that.  I'll have to try figure out why I didn't upload it to the talk section...maybe it was based on someone else's material...
• There's always my favourite movie...Forest Gump...his mother is dieing...she say "death is part of life"...Bubba dies in his arms...Jenny dies...a lot of people die...

Labels: Sex, Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Tuesday, October 04, 2005 0 Comments

Paper prayer chains - see the conclusion to this talk on friendship

Labels: Prayer, Reflective

// posted by Nigel @ Tuesday, October 04, 2005 0 Comments

• Childline have an information sheets on Pregnancy & contraception (click to download)
• They also have a publication called 'I can't belive it's happened to me...' by Gill Keep. It's 'A Childline study on teenage pregnancy'. I think I'll order it.

• I just noticed that Bristol Crisis Service for Women are running a series of one day workshops this month entitled 'Working with people who self-injure'. Dates are 6, 7th, 17th and 25th Oct.  I wouldn't have minded going, but I guess it's too late now...

• Just watched the film Gossip. I'm thinking of using a clip from 4 mins 30 sec - 25 mins (from the start of the film). The film is a 15 and includes a few sexual references, but that's probably ok for our group as they are older. The basic idea is that the characters start a rumour to see how it spreads. The clip covers the beginning, middle and end. It shows how the initial rumour changes to be quite different to the original....

• I also watched It's all gone Pete Tong.  Very entertaining...and funny (in a dark sort of way) just don't watch it if you object to the 'f' word.  It does, however, explorer the very real paradox of those who love music and are deaf.  I don't think this is a film that came be used as an analogy / intro to a talk, as the language is too strong, it full of drugs and sex etc....it would need editing.  It does however have lots of cracking tunes in it...

Labels: Sex, Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Sunday, October 02, 2005 0 Comments

Labels: Prayer

// posted by Nigel @ Sunday, October 02, 2005 0 Comments