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Adolescent Prevention Education Programs (APEP)
Children’s strives to serve as a national model in the field of health promotion and prevention education that advances the positive development and quality of life for preteens, adolescents, and their families. Children’s Adolescent Prevention Education Programs provide creative short- and long-term interventions for our patients and local youth to help them make informed and responsible decisions about their health. The programs and services offered provide comprehensive life-skill education, training, support, advocacy services, and partnerships with youth-serving organizations who share our vision. We target the most marginalized and disenfranchised youth in Washington, DC and Prince Georges County, Maryland, including school-age low income teens, and ethnic and sexual minorities.
Adolescent Prevention Education Programs:
- Promote social justice, arts and cultural works, collaboration, social and cultural competence, empowerment, diversity, and community outreach.
- Provide innovative, evidence-based, health education programs that encourage abstinence and provide comprehensive sex education and services to reduce primary and secondary HIV transmission, unintended pregnancy and STIs.
- Empower youth to develop the goals, skills, and strengths to safely navigate adolescence and make informed, responsible choices about their health.
- Provide comprehensive, youth development programs that link preteens, adolescents and their families to quality education, awareness, outreach, and screening services.
- Train health care professionals and other service providers on how to effectively communicate with youth and provide youth friendly services.
- Serve as a solid resource bank for our community partnerships with youth serving organizations throughout metropolitan Washington, DC.
- Effectively measure program effectiveness, short-term impacts and long-term outcomes through ongoing program evaluation.
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Be Involved and Stay Connected
If you would like to volunteer as a program mentor, tutor or intern, please send your resume to Maranda Ward. All volunteers will have to undergo the hospital medical and background clearance process.
In addition, you can join our mailing list and program listserv to receive program updates and newsletters. For more information, please contact Maranda Ward at 202-476-5449.
Adolescent Prevention Education Programs in the News
Other Adolescent Prevention Services
- Waiting Room Education Sessions provide an effective way to use waiting room time for patients at Children’s Adolescent Health Center. These sessions help teens and families become better informed about a variety of health issues and facilitate a direct link to other available adolescent clinical services including reproductive health exams and ST/HIV counseling and testing.
- Community-based Workshops provide on-site interactive sessions for school-age youth around adolescent development and reproductive health, comprehensive sexual education, and adolescent health care services. These outreach workshops take place at Washington, DC public, private, and charter schools; churches; and local youth service agencies. Children’s health education team provides workshops and trainings on a range of adolescent health topics including:
- Abstinence
- HIV, STs and pregnancy
- Puberty, reproductive anatomy
- Peer Pressure
- Violence, Bullying, Conflict Negotiation
- Dating, Friendships
To schedule a workshop, please contact us at least two weeks in advance of your desired date. If you are interested in having a workshop presented at your school, youth group, or church, please contact Sheena Ware at 202-476-6018.
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