29/11/2025
📢 Closing the Gap: Youth Voices Lead the Way for HFLE Reform in Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
We are thrilled to share highlights from our recent dissemination meeting at the Brix Autograph Collection Hotel, Port of Spain, where we presented the draft findings from our critical research on Adolescents' and Youth's perspectives on school-based Health and Family Life Education (HFLE). 📚🍎
Organized by UNESCO, KIT Institute, and Feminitt Caribbean, this interactive session brought together government officials, educators, researchers, and civil society to discuss the urgent disconnect between HFLE policy and effective implementation in Trinidadian schools. 🗣️🤝
The key outcome? Collaborating on specific, actionable recommendations to strengthen the HFLE curriculum, ensuring it meets the real-life needs of young people. Our joint roadmap focuses on:
• Mandatory Integration: Ensuring HFLE is integrated into regular school timetables to guarantee consistent delivery. 🗓️
• Specialized Training: Providing continuous, specialized teacher training on culturally relevant, age-appropriate, and trauma-informed content. 🧠
• Curriculum Update: Updating the curriculum to include dedicated modules on critical issues like gender-based and family violence, prevention, and rights-based responses. 🛡️
This research is more than just data it’s a definitive roadmap for a more inclusive, rights-based, and safer education system for every student in T&T. Thank you to all partners and stakeholders for your deep commitment. 🙏
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