The Adolescent Education Program (AEP) provides preventive health care services to adolescents between the ages of 10-24. Teens Helping Each Other (THEO) provides teen services through the Sexual Health Promotion through Youth Leadership Initiative (SHPYL) and the Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (CAPP-PREP) projects. Through these two projects , AEP trains adolescents to become Peer Leaders in their communities.
Peer Leadership Initiative: The AEP’s Peer Leadership Initiative focuses on providing support to young people through leadership, community engagement, and community change. The PLI Youth Leaders address community barriers and life factors that impede young people’s access to comprehensive sexual health education and services. PLI addresses health concerns such as STIs, HIV infection and unintended pregnancy. PLI trains Youth Leaders that promote and support the sexual health and comprehensive wellbeing of young people. PLI utilizes the evidence based intervention SISTA: Sisters Informing Sisters About Topics on AIDS to educate young women at-risk for HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Social Drama Project: Trained actors teach adolescents in the community, across the United States and Europe about HIV/AIDS, Safer Sex, Risk Reduction, Condoms and Abstinence and other social issues pertinent to teens through improvisational theater techniques. The teen leaders use interactive games, songs, raps, spoken word, dance and role plays to effectively educate their peers about methods of prevention and healthy decision-making concepts.
Youth Advocacy Project: Peer Leadership Advocates conduct workshops for teens in the community on various social topics including HIV/AIDS, Counseling, Testing, STI Screening, Birth Control, Pregnancy Prevention, Teen Rights , Teen Sexuality & Relationships, Self-Esteem Building and Youth Advocacy.
BATES: Brooklyn Association of Teen Educators: This teen network was established in 1991 under the leadership of the Adolescent Education Program @ SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Since 1991, over 4,300 teens have attended the BATES Youth Conference and Theater Festival.
CAPP-PREP Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention-Personal Responsiblity Education Program- This project provides pregnancy prevention information and two evidence based curriculum interventions for young people between the ages of 14-18. SiHLE: Sisters, Informing, Healing, Liviing, & Empowering and BART: Becoming A Responsible Teen is conducted in after-school and school based settings.
To Schedule A Presentation:
Teens Helping Each Other (THEO)
Tel.# (718) 270-3992
Fax.# (718) 270-1924
