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Sexual Risk Avoidance
Sexual Risk Avoidance: Empowering Youth Today
Empowering Youth Today is a youth development program that engages youth with their family, school and community. It promotes the benefits of delaying sexual activity and other risky behaviors to ensure a happy and healthy future that doesn’t involve sexually transmitted infections or teen pregnancy.
EYT utilizes the evidence-based curriculum “Choosing the Best” which covers a number of life skills associated with self-regulation, healthy relationships, boundary setting, assertiveness, and avoiding drugs and alcohol.
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Parent involvement plays a big role in a student’s decision to delay sexual activity which is why EYT focuses on increasing the communication between youth and their caregivers on such important topics.
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EYT funding is made possible through The Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Family & Youth Services Bureau, and The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
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