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Mission West Virginia, Inc., a non-profit, has been providing services to youth and families across West Virginia for over 22 years. The THINK Program (Teaching Health Instead of Nagging Kids) has been providing teen pregnancy prevention, healthy relationship education, and positive youth development for over 12 years, reaching over 100,000 middle- and high-school-aged youth. The THINK Program currently utilizes several Dibble programs to impact teen pregnancy. During this webinar, Jill Gwilt will discuss the THINK Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, which utilizes Love Notes EBP 2.1. Specifically, she will cover how they were able to scale up their large program in a rural area. Additionally, she will discuss how the curricula were chosen, how they developed long-standing partnerships, the importance of youth voices, creation of community groups, and more. Objectives: What “scale up” actually means out in the field. How to build and maintain long-lasting grant programs in rural areas. How…
Love Notes is being successfully implemented with diverse types of youth in a wide variety of settings. Here is a partial list of populations and settings where Love Notes is being used. Populations Populations Risk-immersed youth Expecting and parenting teens (both fathers and mothers) GLBTQ youth Youth in correctional settings Tribal youth Runaway and homeless youth Community college students Foster youth (both within the system and aging out) Abused young people Settings Workforce Development (YouthBuild/Job Corps) Group homes (Foster) Residential settings (Mental health) Detention centers Challenge academies Schools Alternative schools Faith-based settings Community agencies Community colleges In-home visitation Domestic violence shelters