Morehouse School of Medicine News May 24, 2021 MSM and Clayton County Health District Partner to Promote Healthy Youth Development Collaboration with SNAPP at The Health Promotion Resource Center at Morehouse School of Medicine provides parent resources to reduce teen pregnancy. The Health Promotion Resource Center<https://www.msm.edu/Community/HPRC/index.php> at Morehouse School of Medicine and long-time partner Clayton County Health District<https://www.claytoncountypublichealth.org/> currently offer parents, guardians, and other caregivers programs to help reduce teen pregnancy. May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month (NTPPM)<https://opa.hhs.gov/NTPPM>. While NTPPM celebrates the historic decline in the teen birth rate in the United States and highlights the importance of helping adolescents reach their full potential, there are still many groups at risk. The Adolescent Health and Youth Development<https://www.claytoncountypublichealth.org/services/community-health/adolescent-health-and-youth-development/> program, open to youth ages 10-19, provides opportunities for adolescents to enhance their skills and improve their health. The Comprehensive Sex Education curriculum educates youth ages on both abstinence and contraception to help prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs<https://www.claytoncountypublichealth.org/services/adult-health/stds-stis/>), including HIV/AIDS. Other topics in the program's curriculum include: * Healthy relationships * Community awareness education events * Leadership * Healthy diet * Tobacco/alcohol and drugs Services * Service-learning projects * Adult to youth mentoring * Curriculum-based education * Leadership training * Life skills * Physical fitness * Nutrition counseling * Career counseling * Teen coalition Carla Heath, director of Business Operations, Clayton County Health District states, "The Clayton County Health District aims to reinforce positive attitudes, healthy behaviors and activities to reduce high-risk behavior, violence, substance abuse, poor school performance and early sexual activity. Our programs are designed and developed in collaboration with families, communities, schools and other public and private organizations throughout the district." Connecting youth to services and opportunities that will help them maximize their strengths can help prevent teen pregnancy. Therefore, teen pregnancy prevention efforts should provide youth with opportunities for healthy and successful development. OPA's Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program<https://opa.hhs.gov/grant-programs/teen-pregnancy-prevention-program-tpp/tpp-grantees> grantees implement effective programs that focus on developing positive outcomes for adolescents, including supporting positive youth development, preventing sexually transmitted infections, building healthy relationships, and more. Download OPA's toolkit<https://opa.hhs.gov/NTPPM#toolkit> and follow OPA on Twitter (@HHSPopAffairs)<https://twitter.com/HHSPopAffairs> to learn how your organization can help play a role in preventing teen pregnancy during NTPPM and all year long. For more information, please contact Victoria Broussard, program manager, Morehouse School of Medicine at vbroussard@msm.edu<mailto:vbroussard@msm.edu> or 404-756-5278. Sandra M. Phoenix HBCU Library Alliance Executive Director Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library 111 James P. Brawley Drive SW Atlanta GA 30314 404-978-2118 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) http://www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> Honor the ancestors, honor the children and those yet to come. Building Capacity for Humanities Special Collections at HBCUs - Become an ally and partner with us to protect, preserve and share a more authentic record of American history. Follow this link http://hbculibraries.org/humanities-2019.html for more information. Follow this link http://hbculibraries.org/ and click on the Donate Now button to invest in this project. Your support is appreciated. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/HBCULibAlliance Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/