| Arkansas has the highest teen birth rate in the U.S. This paper develops evidence informedrecommendations for how Arkansas could implement UNESCO’s International TechnicalGuidance on Sexuality Education guidelines into their existing sex education curriculum. Toaccomplish this, I first created a demographic profile of Arkansas and identified possible barriersto implementation that are specific to Arkansas. Next, I compared and contrasted Arkansascurriculum and the International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education guidelines andidentified which topics need to be covered in Arkansas’ sex education. Lastly, I createdrecommendations on how to implement the topics from key concept 8.1 from the InternationalTechnical Guidance on Sexuality Education into Arkansas’s existing sex education curriculumto effectively address possible barriers for implementation and use existing structures to aid inthe implementation process. I discovered four key findings. Arkansas’s curriculum standards arevague and leave too much room for interpretation, many schools do not teach the existingstandards because it is not required, barriers that exist are deeply seeded in social norms, andthere are immense racial disparities when it comes to the ability to obtain resources to preventteen pregnancy.Keywords: teen pregnancy, teen birth rate, sex education |