reach Program.

The Reaching and Educating Adolescents to Improve Comprehensive Health (REACH) Project aims to promote sexual risk avoidance education that teaches participants how to voluntarily abstain from non-marital sexual activity and teaches them the benefits associated with self-regulation, success sequencing for poverty prevention, healthy relationships, goal setting, and resisting sexual coercion, dating violence, and preventing youth risk behaviors such as underage drinking.

  • 70% of 350 participants with 75% of program services

  • 70% of 350 participants will indicate a delay and a desire to delay/refrain from sexual activity

  • 70% or 350 participants will significantly unapproved the normalizing of teen sexual activity and other risky behaviors

  • 70% of 350 participants report being able to implement SRAE and YD skills

  • Recruit and train 10 participants as SRAE Youth Peer Counselors to develop creative community service projects

Our Objectives

  • Trained over 60+ peer educator, including MLB First Round Pick Termarr Johnson, currently playing for the Pirates

  • Over 10+ Hip Hop Lunch and Learn were conducted

  • Provided numerous counseling sessions for students involving mental health

  • Provided tutoring for a multitude of students within the APS school district

  • Conducted two peer leadership trainings

Project Outcomes