Youth Empowerment Program (YEP)
The Teen Pregnancy Prevention program encourages the postponement of early sexual involvement and helps students develop the skills necessary to make healthy decisions. YEP reaches over 500 youth yearly at 15 community, court, and high schools. With funding from the Office of Adolescent Health, awarded in October 2010, the Education Department will provide the following teen pregnancy prevention programs in San Luis Obispo County Schools:
Be Proud Be Responsible:
The curriculum emphasizes strategies to motivate adolescents to make healthy sexual decisions and decrease risky sexual behavior. It encourages adolescents to take on sexual responsibility and accountability and increases awareness of the effects of HIV/AIDS and other STIs. This curriculum aims to affect knowledge, beliefs, and behavior related to sexual behaviors.
¡Cuídate! (Take Care of Yourself):
“¡Cuídate! (Take Care of Yourself)” is a culturally-competent program for Latino youth adapted from the Be Proud! Be Responsible! program. It aims to reduce HIV risk and unintended pregnancies by affecting sexual behaviors such as intercourse, number of partners, and condom use. The program utilizes important cultural beliefs and attitudes in the Latino community (such as familismo and machismo) to communicate the importance of risk-reduction strategies and to increase knowledge and self-efficacy skills.
Modifications have been made to both curricula to meet the California Education Code for Comprehensive Sex Education.
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401