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DocuSign Envelope ID: CB0C1343-06EB-4BE7-9AF6-62EE77BD69FE t A - continued <br /> Provider's Outside Agency Application <br /> MAIN APPLICATION <br /> Program/Project Description (Label your responses as outlined below; not to exceed 3 pages.) <br /> Please provide the following information about the proposed program/project: <br /> b) Summarize the program services proposed and how the program will address the chosen <br /> Town/County priority? <br /> In FY 17, our education department will provide Orange County teens and young adults with <br /> medically accurate, intensive, and balanced sexuality education programs that promote positive <br /> sexuality,healthy behavior, and responsible choices—with the goal of reducing the rates of <br /> unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection. In doing so, we are addressing the Town <br /> of Chapel Hill's budgeting priority to fund education, mentorship, and afterschool programming for <br /> youth facing a variety of challenges. <br /> PPSAT will provide Teen Voices, a sexual education program for teens that uses the evidence-based <br /> Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART) BART is a comprehensive curriculum specifically designed <br /> to increase many of the knowledge and skill-based protective factors about contraception use and <br /> negotiation skills. PPSAT will also offer Smart Girls, a science-based, intensive adolescent <br /> pregnancy prevention program for middle school girls. The goal of both programs is to build self- <br /> esteem and healthy decision-making to delay initiation of sex, increase condom use of sexually <br /> active teens, and reduce the number of sexual partners for those teens. <br /> We will invite graduates of our teen education programs to participate in our alumni group. <br /> Through the alumni group, we will look at the larger community to identify other needs and design <br /> and implement appropriate service projects. This service-learning component will work to increase <br /> community involvement. <br /> Parent workshops will improve parents' confidence in talking to their children about sex and will <br /> increase parent-child communication about sex and contraception. Alumni will lead workshop <br /> sessions so that parents have the opportunity to practice talking to teens about these sensitive topics. <br /> Our program will also include a series of charlas or chats aimed at young women (aged 19—25) <br /> who do not qualify to participate in our after-school program. These workshops will engage them in <br /> a dialogue about family planning and pregnancy prevention. <br /> c) Describe the local need or problem to be addressed in relation to the Consolidated Plan or <br /> other community priorities (i.e. Council/Board Goals). Cite local data to support the need <br /> for this program and the population being served. <br /> The Town of Chapel Hill has identified education, mentorship, and afterschool programming for <br /> youth facing a variety of challenges as a budgeting priority. <br /> The consequences of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing are serious and numerous. Teen <br /> mothers are less likely to graduate from high school and more likely to live in poverty and to rely <br /> on welfare. The children of teenage mothers are often born at low birth weight, experience health <br /> and developmental problems, and are likely to be poor, abused, and/or neglected <br /> The educational programs PPSAT offers influence specific behaviors related to sexual risk-taking <br /> and reinforce protective factors to prevent teen pregnancy. <br /> Main Application 1/21/2016 18:35:26 a1/p1 Page / of 2 <br />