Teen Health Project

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
• Description:
  Teen Health Project is a community-level intervention (CLI) that helps adolescents develop skills to enact change, and provides continued modeling, peer norm and social reinforcement for maintaining the prevention of HIV risk behavior. Adolescents first attend two 3-hour workshops that focus on HIV/STD education and skills training on avoiding unwanted sex, sexual negotiation, and condom use, with themes of personal pride and selfrespect. Workshops are conducted separately for males and females, who are divided by younger and older enrollees. Adolescents then attend 2 follow-up sessions and various community activities and events with peers from their social networks in the housing development. Opinion leaders are selected based on nominations and represent 15% of the total number of adolescents in each housing development. A Teen Health Project Leadership Council (THPLC) is established in each housing development to encourage attendance, reinforce abstinence and condom use, plan HIV prevention activities to maintain risk reduction, set norms supporting abstinence and condom use, and gain support from adults to promote activities. Through pledges and videotaped testimonials, adolescents are encouraged to make commitments to HIV reduction. HIV prevention messages were emphasized throughout the activities and on small media, project newsletters, and t-shirts. Prevention messages were also featured at community-wide social events, talent shows, musical performances, and festivals in order to establish and maintain HIV risk -reduction norms among peers, family members, and the larger community. In addition, parents of adolescent enrollees are offered a workshop that focuses on HIV/AIDS information and approaches to discussing issues related to abstinence and condom use with their children.
• Subjects:
  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Epidemiology Data Interpretation, Statistical Epidemics Epidemiological Monitoring HIV Public Health Surveillance Statistics Tables
• Keywords:
  DHP_HIV_Reports PRS Project HIV Compendium
• Series:
  Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention (NCHHSTP)
• Division:
  DHP - Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Collection(s):
  Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3360782f0b09a9dc2d4e6cc5b6e3bc8bfb2cc165757d9aebcf92f5fe7ccd60592043db3481d645fdf985e9c02f0fa6280789657c9272857935cbd9867a06f33b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/149504/cdc_149504_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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