Wise Guys: Involving Males in Teen Pregnancy Prevention
January 22, 2009
Presenter: Rick Brown, Director of the Family Life Council of Greater Greensboro’s Wise Guys Program
Rick Brown is the Director of the Family Life Council of Greater Greensboro’s nationally recognized Wise Guys Program, which received a special program award from the national campaign to prevent teen pregnancy in the spring of 2001 for its pioneering work involving males in preventing teen pregnancy. Under his leadership the program has grown from a local service for teen males, parents and educators in Guildford County, NC to a national resource currently implemented in over 300 communities in 32 states nationwide. Rick has presented extensively across the country, conducting trainings for professionals in implementing the Wise Guys program, and workshops on topics regarding males and sexuality.
Wise Guys ® is an evaluated program that has been proven successful in helping young males make better, wiser decisions about sexuality. The Wise Guys program is committed to:
- Empowering young men with the knowledge they need to make effective decisions.
- Encouraging young men to respect themselves as well as others.
- Helping young men understand the importance of male responsibility, particularly sexual responsibility.
- Helping young men improve communication with parents, educators, peers, and others.
Find out more about Wise Guys ® at http://www.wiseguysnc.org/
ReCAPP: Male Involvement Overview http://www.etr.org/recapp/theories/mip/miapp.pdf
Working with Data to Understand Adolescent Health Risk Disparities
October 15, 2008
This call highlighted an innovative project from Oregon that used data on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth (LGBTQ) to address health inequalities. The work was supported by data and assessment mini-grant funds from AMCHP. To learn more about AMCHP's DATA and Assessment Mini-Grant program, click here.
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Sarah Knipper Ramowski, Adolescent Health & Policy Analyst from Oregon’s Public Health Division, will present the project on the call and discuss how the team analyzed and applied the data from the Oregon Healthy Teens Survey to address disparities among LGBTQ youth. She has a Masters in Social Work from Washington University with a health policy focus. In Oregon, her policy and analytical work are focused on School-Based Health Centers, adolescent sexual health, positive youth development, health care access, and adolescent brain development. She recently co-authored an article for the Journal of Youth Development on creating and analyzing an Oregon State Benchmark on positive youth development.
African American Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis and Planning for Action
April 4, 2008
Although rates of infection among African American women decreased by six percent between 2000 and 2003, they still account for a disproportionate number of new infections. In 2002 HIV infection was the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25–34 years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2005 Black women accounted for 67 percent of AIDS cases among women 13 and older. Furthermore, the AIDS case rate for Black women was 24 times the rate for white women. The call will feature a presentation from the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) to provide capacity-building assistance related to HIV prevention for women to health departments along with state highlights from Iowa and Michigan.
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