PlayFoward: Elm City Stories

game

Database Image: 

Publisher: 

play2PREVENT Lab

Developer: 

play2PREVENT Lab

"PlayForward serves as the foundation for the play2PREVENT Lab and is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The project’s goal is to develop and evaluate an interactive videogame designed to provide at-risk young teens the opportunity to acquire and practice skills for risk reduction and HIV prevention. This videogame incorporates evidence-based concepts from prominent behavior change theories, including self-efficacy, social norms, message framing, and delay discounting."

Keywords: 

  • at risk youth
  • behavior change
  • elm city
  • game
  • hiv
  • play2prevent lab
  • playforward
  • prevent
  • risk role playing
  • safe sex
  • self efficacy
  • sex education
  • sexual health
  • sexually transmitted diseases (std's)
  • social norms

Topic: 

  • Sexual Health

Target Population: 

  • Teens

Genre: 

  • Role-Playing
  • Simulation
  • Strategy

Game Platform: 

  • Computers
  • Handheld Device

Source: 

  • Download
  • Online

Partners

  • HopeLab
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • SAGE Publishing
  • UNICEF Kid Power