Not Your Ordinary June Grads
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Contact:
Ellen Lubell, The Children’s Aid Society, (w) 212-949-4938, (c) 917-854-6864
Amy Levine, 212-686-5359
Parents Graduate from Children’s Aid Society Program Designed to Increase Sexual Literacy and Communication with Their Children
When:
Friday, June 9, 2006
6:00 p.m.
Where:
Hunter College
East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, SW corner
West Building, Room 714
What:
134 parents who cared enough about their children’s sexual health to take time from their busy lives to receive special educational training will be recognized at The Children’s Aid Society’s(CAS) Adolescent Sexuality and Pregnancy Prevention Program’s Parent Family Life and Sexuality Education Program’s 20th annual graduation.
This training supports the parents in their roles as the primary sexuality educators of their own children, preparing them to communicate more effectively with their children as a means of helping them avoid the mounting sexual tragedies in their communities.
These parents from across the city – Washington Heights, East Harlem, Central Harlem, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and the Lower East Side – received 45 hours of training, starting in September and ending in June, at various Children’s Aid Society locations and other community organizations.
Who:
The Children’s Aid Society’s Adolescent Sexuality and Pregnancy Prevention Program is a comprehensive “above-the-waist” model that helps adolescents focus their energies and outlook on a future that does not include becoming a teen parent. Through daily participation and support, teens in low-income families and communities are given opportunities and encouragement in many areas of their lives, including education, health care, and the working world.
Parent participants are available for interview (in Spanish and English) at Friday’s ceremony.
The Children’s Aid Society (CAS) was founded in 1853. It is one of the nation’s largest and most innovative non-sectarian agencies, serving more than 150,000 of New York’s neediest children and their families with a network of services that includes community schools, neighborhood centers, camps, adoption and foster care services, teen pregnancy prevention, education, health and recreation. For more information, please call 212-949-4938 or visit www.childrensaidsociety.org or http://www.stopteenpregnancy.com.
