Promoting Adolescent Sexual health and Safety (PASS) in Washington, DC

The compulsive environment (CSE), an atmosphere promoting sexual threats and stress, is a threat at the neighborhood level and seems to play an important role in the lives of poor girls. To this day, little is known about the relationship between the long-term threat of women's "sexual safety" and the development of young people. Furthermore, no attempt has been made to alter the adjacent physical and social structures that promote CSE.

Collaborated with the Urban Research Institute (PI, Susan Popkin), DC Housing Authority, African American Benning Terrace (Public Housing Community in District 7 District), and partnership with community-based health, social services, and faith doing. Organization development and implementation to change neighboring factors to create CSE to reduce high incidence of sexual violence, HIV / AIDS, and teenage pregnancy among girls aged 9 to 18 living in public housing And evaluation program. Another major cause of CSE is prevention of HIV infection. The African American community in this country has the highest rate of HIV infection, 3% of which are infected (prevalence is higher than Haiti), 2 out of 3 girls diagnosed with HIV are nationwide is. Black people The PASS initiative is jointly owned by NIMHD and the Kellogg Foundation and has developed and evaluated an evidence-based service model using a community-based participatory approach to assess the health and social outcomes of girls living in public housing Improve.

Establish the Community Advisory Committee (CAB) and the Youth Community Advisory Committee (YCAB) to instruct the planning, promotion, dissemination and evaluation of the project

Cooperate with residents and residents to develop community needs assessments related to sexual safety and health (CSE, HIV / STI and pregnancy) of girls aged 9 to 18 years.

Use the CBPR principle for jointly designing comprehensive intervention and service model for puberty girls to reduce CSE of adolescent boys and adolescents

Design services for parents / adults of families with teenagers to further promote personal and community change

Washington DC demonstrates the risk factors of sexual safety and adolescence such as the promotion of adolescent sexual safety and health program aimed at reducing teen pregnancy. Initial evaluation of the program reported that the residents felt that they could achieve their goals and further reported that the employment rate rose and more young people kept in touch and the risk of criminal activity decreased 59. Possibility to reconnect with young people. 100,000 opportunity initiatives is an employer led initiative that creates at least 100,000 opportunities in the form of employment, apprenticeship and internship by 2018 to provide opportunities for young people.

In our history, Cardea has been working on promoting adolescent sexual health by training health care professionals, health educators, teachers, and other people working with young people It was. In the early days, my colleague Joan Helmich founded the Northwest Community Health Educators Institute (NICHE). This is accommodation training to increase knowledge and acquire comprehensive, culturally skilled, medically correct skills. Education Joan died in 2009, but her heritage will continue to exist in ICHE, ICHE will continue to be held in many parts of the United States.

Mainstream medical expert groups such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Youth Health Care Association have strongly opposed support for education to promote abstinence and healthy sexual behavior. This is not surprising, as medical ethics emphasizes providing all the information needed to make information-based choices to patients. Pediatricians share the same emotions to educate their children and adolescents. The doctor is not alone to believe that adolescence should not be limited to abstinence education. Only abstinence is rejected by many mainstream churches and progressive churches. According to a nationwide survey, parents strongly support sex education and provide all the information necessary for young people to protect health. So also teenagers working together; they want all the information they can get. As a father of two young men, I am with them.