Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) is designed to promote sexual risk avoidance as the optimal health message. YEP’s goal is to reduce adolescent sexual activity, pregnancies, births, repeat births and sexually transmitted diseases/sexually transmitted infections (STD’s/STIs).

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.

The APPEAL SRAE Project will provide an evidenced based, wholistic approach, grounded in the social learning theory. The project will teach the individual and societal benefits associated with personal responsibility, self-regulation, goal setting, healthy decision making, healthy relationships, stress management, returning to a lifestyle without sex and other youth risk behaviors such as underage drinking and illicit drug use without normalizing teen sexual activity.

A culturally relevant, age-appropriate, 6-session prevention program curriculum designed to decrease risky sexual behavior, substance use and perceived stress levels.