Group-Based Sexual Health Education:
Health Educators provide comprehensive, age-appropriate, and medically accurate sexual health education in middle and high schools, as well as youth-serving agencies, across Black Hawk, Butler, Buchanan, and Bremer counties. Using evidence-based, evidence-informed, and research-based curricula, Health Educators equip young people with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions about their sexual health. Topics may include healthy relationships, consent, strategies for handling sexual pressure, abstinence, birth control options, personal boundaries, correct and consistent condom use, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and more.
For more information, please contact Shawna Haislet, Program Manager, at [email protected] or call 319-433-6331.
Health Educators provide comprehensive, age-appropriate, and medically accurate sexual health education in middle and high schools, as well as youth-serving agencies, across Black Hawk, Butler, Buchanan, and Bremer counties. Using evidence-based, evidence-informed, and research-based curricula, Health Educators equip young people with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions about their sexual health. Topics may include healthy relationships, consent, strategies for handling sexual pressure, abstinence, birth control options, personal boundaries, correct and consistent condom use, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and more.
For more information, please contact Shawna Haislet, Program Manager, at [email protected] or call 319-433-6331.
Individual Health Education (IHE):
Health Educators can meet with students individually and confidentially to ask questions and receive education and support related to healthy relationships, consent, tactics for handling sexual pressure, abstinence, birth control options, correct & consistent condom use, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and more. Health Educators discuss the benefits of abstinence with each student and encourage teens to discuss sexual health, and decision-making with their parent/guardian or another trusted adult. Students are also connected to school, community, and 24/7 resources.
Health Educators can provide confidential pregnancy testing at no cost to students. They also make referrals to free & confidential STI testing at Success Street. Health Educators meet with students individually at the student's request; services are never mandatory.
Meetings take place at school, during the school day. Conversations with health educators are kept confidential meaning we won’t share your information with parents, teachers, counselors, coaches, or health office staff.
Success Street is open to all students in Waterloo and Cedar Falls public schools, providing a safe and welcoming environment where they can ask questions, receive education, and access resources. IHE is available through Success Street locations at East High, West High and Carver Academy. In addition, IHE can also be arranged at Bunger, Hoover, and Central middle schools, along with Expo Alternative Learning Center and Cedar Falls High School, alternative school, and junior highs.
*For the safety of students, Together For Youth Health Educators are mandatory reporters and will report certain information as required.
For more information, please contact Shawna Haislet, Program Manager, at [email protected] or call 319-433-6331. Students can also submit a referral for IHE services on the Success Street website.
Health Educators can meet with students individually and confidentially to ask questions and receive education and support related to healthy relationships, consent, tactics for handling sexual pressure, abstinence, birth control options, correct & consistent condom use, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and more. Health Educators discuss the benefits of abstinence with each student and encourage teens to discuss sexual health, and decision-making with their parent/guardian or another trusted adult. Students are also connected to school, community, and 24/7 resources.
Health Educators can provide confidential pregnancy testing at no cost to students. They also make referrals to free & confidential STI testing at Success Street. Health Educators meet with students individually at the student's request; services are never mandatory.
Meetings take place at school, during the school day. Conversations with health educators are kept confidential meaning we won’t share your information with parents, teachers, counselors, coaches, or health office staff.
Success Street is open to all students in Waterloo and Cedar Falls public schools, providing a safe and welcoming environment where they can ask questions, receive education, and access resources. IHE is available through Success Street locations at East High, West High and Carver Academy. In addition, IHE can also be arranged at Bunger, Hoover, and Central middle schools, along with Expo Alternative Learning Center and Cedar Falls High School, alternative school, and junior highs.
*For the safety of students, Together For Youth Health Educators are mandatory reporters and will report certain information as required.
For more information, please contact Shawna Haislet, Program Manager, at [email protected] or call 319-433-6331. Students can also submit a referral for IHE services on the Success Street website.
Circle:
An evidence-informed program for middle- and high-school–aged girls. Circle offers a safe space to discuss healthy relationships, communication skills, self-esteem, friendships, positive body image, mental health, decision making, and more.
Circle aims to counteract social and interpersonal forces that impede girls’ growth and development by promoting an emotionally safe setting and structure within which girls can develop caring relationships and use authentic voices.
Circle support groups are facilitated by Together For Youth Health Educators at area middle and high schools upon request.
For more information, please contact Shawna Haislet, Program Manager, at [email protected] or call 319-433-6331.
An evidence-informed program for middle- and high-school–aged girls. Circle offers a safe space to discuss healthy relationships, communication skills, self-esteem, friendships, positive body image, mental health, decision making, and more.
Circle aims to counteract social and interpersonal forces that impede girls’ growth and development by promoting an emotionally safe setting and structure within which girls can develop caring relationships and use authentic voices.
Circle support groups are facilitated by Together For Youth Health Educators at area middle and high schools upon request.
For more information, please contact Shawna Haislet, Program Manager, at [email protected] or call 319-433-6331.
Sistas Informing, Healing, Living & Empowering (SiHLE):
An evidence-based curriculum specifically for African American females between the ages of 12-19. SiHLE provides education on sexual health, communication skills, healthy relationships, community resources, and more.
For more information, please contact Shinita Crawley, SiHLE Coordinator, at [email protected] or call 319-433-6331.
An evidence-based curriculum specifically for African American females between the ages of 12-19. SiHLE provides education on sexual health, communication skills, healthy relationships, community resources, and more.
For more information, please contact Shinita Crawley, SiHLE Coordinator, at [email protected] or call 319-433-6331.
Young Parents Together (YPT):
An adolescent parent education and support program designed collaboratively and specifically for expectant and parenting teens and first-time young parents, and their children. YPT increases knowledge during pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting so that children born to adolescents will have healthier outcomes. This collaborative community project has evolved and improved to meet the needs of children and teen parents for over two decades with community support. YPT utilizes effective curricula to meet various needs of pregnant and parenting adolescents.
For more information on joining Young Parents Together or meeting dates and times, please contact Jill White, YPT Coordinator at (319) 231-9373.
An adolescent parent education and support program designed collaboratively and specifically for expectant and parenting teens and first-time young parents, and their children. YPT increases knowledge during pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting so that children born to adolescents will have healthier outcomes. This collaborative community project has evolved and improved to meet the needs of children and teen parents for over two decades with community support. YPT utilizes effective curricula to meet various needs of pregnant and parenting adolescents.
For more information on joining Young Parents Together or meeting dates and times, please contact Jill White, YPT Coordinator at (319) 231-9373.
