Educating teens in Warren & Washington Counties about responsible choices to avoid early pregnancy and parenting
Living life to the fullest means having a positive attitude, making healthy choices, and learning useful life skills. When a person builds these habits, they can feel confident making smart, safe, and responsible decisions about things like relationships, abstinence, sex, and contraception—choices that can affect their future goals and dreams.
The Teen Awareness Group of Hudson Headwaters Health Network (TAG) program offers activities and opportunities that help reduce local rates of teen pregnancy, STIs, and HIV/AIDS, while improving health outcomes for young people in Warren and Washington counties. This program operates under a CAPP (Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention) grant awarded to Hudson Headwaters Health Network by the New York State Department of Health, Adolescent Health Unit, Bureau of Perinatal, Reproductive, and Sexual Health, Division of Family Health, Center for Community Health.
Specific activities include:
- Providing teen health education workshops using evidence-based, comprehensive sexual health curricula that encourage abstinence and risk-reduction behaviors;
- Offering educational materials and support to schools and community organizations on adolescent health and development, including after-school and summer programs;
- Promoting family communication and community education to increase awareness of adolescent health and development topics;
- Improving teens’ access to reproductive health care and family planning services in their community; and
- Building community partnerships and support for healthy adolescent development and a successful transition into adulthood.
