Jackson State University News July 14, 2016 $50,000 grant from women’s foundation will support sex education program at JSU The Jackson State University Undergraduate Studies and CyberLearning Unit received a $50,000 grant from the Women’s Foundation of Mississippi to fund the JSU Bridge to Success: Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. This program is designed to address a significant barrier to university student retention and graduation – teen pregnancy. It will specifically promote strategies to help incoming JSU freshmen in the JSU Bridge to the Future Program avoid situations that can lead to risky sexual behaviors and unwanted pregnancies by incorporating weekly workshops with trainers utilizing the Mississippi Department of Health endorsed Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART) curriculum in an eight-week long summer program. The Project is designed around three goals: Goal #1: To decrease risky sexual behaviors among male and female adolescents enrolled in the JSU Summer Bridge to the Future Program through assisting them in clarifying their personal values, implementing strategies to reduce risk-taking, and sharing accurate information concerning HIV and other STDs utilizing the BART Curriculum. Goal #2: Endorse the incorporation of BART workshops into the curriculum and activities of all incoming Jackson State University freshmen. Goal #3: Increase university retention and graduation rates by working with university officials and stakeholders to create a model for a four-year college/university sexual education program targeting incoming college freshmen. Dr. Tony Latiker, associate professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, and Josie Latham, coordinator of intervention services, are the co-principal investigators on this project. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 404-978-2118 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) 404-577-5158 (fax) Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/ 7th Biennial Membership Meeting: Register here http://hbculibraries.org/html/2016meeting-form.html for the October 10,11 Membership Meeting in Atlanta. [Sized Coming Soon]NEW DIGS!!!! The HBCU Library Alliance is relocating to the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library. Transition process is near completion. Stay tuned!!! Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library 111 James P. Brawley Drive SW Atlanta, GA 30314-4207 www.auctr.edu Honor the ancestors, honor the children.