Ammon News - The Higher Population Council (HPC) and the Share-Net Jordan, on Sunday, held the second training workshop on participatory approach to transfer and use knowledge at the local and global levels on parent-adolescent relationship with regard to sexual and reproductive health information.

Funded by Share-Net International, the workshop, which brought together local experts and the target group, aims to use the participatory approach to transfer and use the acquired knowledge to partners, which would facilitate parents' awareness in the reproductive health field and stimulate parent-child contact, according to a HPC statement.

Speaking at the event, Director of the HPC Studies and Policies Unit and coordinator of ShareNet Jordan, Ali Mutlaq, said the workshop includes mutiple sessions to deal with completing the participants' capacity-building skills related to transfering sexual and reproductive health information by using the social environment analysis model.

The workshop, he noted, also highlights Jordan's prominent national efforts in preparing a guideline for health care providers to educate parents on adolescent-oriented sexual and reproductive health, which was developed by the Jordanian Ministry of Health, the United Nations Population Fund United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) - Jordan and the Royal Health Awareness Society (RHAS).