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MAIN APPLICATION Program /Project Description (Label your responses as outlined below; not to exceed 3 pages Please provide the following information about the proposed program /project: b) Summarize the program services proposed and how the program will address the chosen Town /County priority? In FY 17, our education department will provide Orange County teens and young adults with medically accurate, intensive, and balanced sexuality education programs that promote positive sexuality, healthy behavior, and responsible choices — with the goal of reducing the rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection. In doing so, we are addressing the Town of Chapel Hill's budgeting priority to fund education, mentorship, and afterschool programming for youth facing a variety of challenges. PPSAT will provide Teen Voices, a sexual education program for teens that uses the evidence -based Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART) BART is a comprehensive curriculum specifically designed to increase many of the knowledge and skill -based protective factors about contraception use and negotiation skills. PPSAT will also offer Smart Girls, a science - based, intensive adolescent pregnancy prevention program for middle school girls. The goal of both programs is to build self - esteem and healthy decision - making to delay initiation of sex, increase condom use of sexually active teens, and reduce the number of sexual partners for those teens. We will invite graduates of our teen education programs to participate in our alumni group. Through the alumni group, we will look at the larger community to identify other needs and design and implement appropriate service projects. This service- learning component will work to increase community involvement. Parent workshops will improve parents' confidence in talking to their children about sex and will increase parent -child communication about sex and contraception. Alumni will lead workshop sessions so that parents have the opportunity to practice talking to teens about these sensitive topics. Our program will also include a series of charlas or chats aimed at young women (aged 19 — 25) who do not qualify to participate in our after - school program. These workshops will engage them in a dialogue about family planning and pregnancy prevention. c) Describe the local need or problem to be addressed in relation to the Consolidated Plan or other community priorities (i.e. Council /Board Goals). Cite local data to support the need for this program and the population being served. The Town of Chapel Hill has identified education, mentorship, and afterschool programming for youth facing a variety of challenges as a budgeting priority. The consequences of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing are serious and numerous. Teen mothers are less likely to graduate from high school and more likely to live in poverty and to rely on welfare. The children of teenage mothers are often born at low birth weight, experience health and developmental problems, and are likely to be poor, abused, and/or neglected The educational programs PPSAT offers influence specific behaviors related to sexual risk - taking and reinforce protective factors to prevent teen pregnancy. Main Application 1/21/2016 18:35:26 al /p1 Page 7 of 24