Teen Health Project
An Evidence-Based Practice
Description
The goal of the Teen Health Project (THP) is to provide adolescents living in low-income housing developments with the skills necessary to prevent HIV risk behaviors. First, adolescents attend two 3-hour workshops that focus on teaching sexual negotiation, proper condom use, HIV/STD education, and ways to avoid unwanted sex. Next, adolescents attend two follow-up sessions as well as various community activities and events with peers from their housing developments.
In addition, a Teen Health Project Leadership Council is established in each housing development to encourage continued participation in various program events, and to support the establishment of HIV prevention behaviors as norms. Finally, parents of adolescent participants are offered a workshop that teaches them about HIV/AIDS and way to discuss issues related to abstinence and condom use with their children.
In addition, a Teen Health Project Leadership Council is established in each housing development to encourage continued participation in various program events, and to support the establishment of HIV prevention behaviors as norms. Finally, parents of adolescent participants are offered a workshop that teaches them about HIV/AIDS and way to discuss issues related to abstinence and condom use with their children.
Goal / Mission
The goal of the Teen Health Project is to provide adolescents with the skills necessary to prevent HIV risk behaviors.
Impact
The Teen Health Project shows that community-level interventions that include skills training and engage adolescents in neighborhood-based HIV prevention activities can produce and maintain reductions in sexual risk behavior, including delaying sexual debut and increasing condom use.
Results / Accomplishments
Two months post-intervention, adolescents who participated in the Teen Health Project were significantly more likely to have remained abstinent than adolescents who only received HIV/AIDS education (p=0.04). Also at two months post-intervention, sexually active adolescents who had participated in the intervention were significantly more likely to report condom use at last sex when compared to their counterparts in the control group (p=0.05).
About this Promising Practice
Primary Contact
Kathleen J. Sikkema
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Duke University
9 Flowers Drive, Box 90086
Durham, NC 27708
(919) 684-9073
kathleen.sikkema@duke.edu
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Duke University
9 Flowers Drive, Box 90086
Durham, NC 27708
(919) 684-9073
kathleen.sikkema@duke.edu
Topics
Health / Adolescent Health
Health / Prevention & Safety
Health / Prevention & Safety
Source
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Date of publication
Jun 2005
Date of implementation
1998
Geographic Type
Urban
Location
cities in Wisconsin, Virginia, and Washington
For more details
https://www.socio.com/products/pasha-teen-health-p...
https://youth.gov/evidence-innovation/tpper/progra...
https://youth.gov/evidence-innovation/tpper/progra...
Target Audience
Teens
Additional Audience
low-income