The Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina seeks to eliminate teen pregnancy and support North Carolina communities through Advocacy, Collaboration and Education. This blog will share some ideas, upcoming events and tools to help teen pregnancy prevention and teen parenting programs improve and evolve.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Confused about how to create teen pregnancy prevention programs that work?

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina
Training Announcement
Designing and Evaluating Programs that Work


DATE: November 7, 2007
TIME: 8:30-4:30
LOCATION: 3708 Mayfair Street, Suite 310 Durham, NC
COST: $35 (lunch included)

This training is an excellent tool for those engaged in writing or thinking about writing for the TPPI grants!

Part. I
BDI (Behavior-Determinant-Intervention) Logic Model

GOAL: To increase the capacity of participants to develop BDI (Behavior-Determinant-Intervention) Logic Models to design and improve programs to reduce adolescent sexual risk-taking behaviors. Participants apply these concepts to build a BDI Logic Model step-by-step.

Part II.
Program Evaluation Basics

GOAL: To increase the capacity of participants to evaluate the effectiveness of adolescent reproductive health programs using basic evaluation tools, and to use evaluation information to make appropriate program modifications.

Registration information is available at www.appcnc.org

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Register Now for the Faith Community & the Guys: Two Pieces of the Pregnancy Prevention Puzzle!

MARK YOUR CALENDAR for December 4, 2007 and come to a Male Involvement Network training in Charlotte.

The goals of this one-day training are to enhance the capacity of practitioners to engage boys and young men in pregnancy prevention efforts and to increase your agency's resources for partnering with the Faith Community to promote adolescent health. Enjoy meeting other professionals who work with boys and young men. Share what's working and what's challenging in your program.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

  • Strategies to engage males in adolescent health
  • The Male's Place, Mecklenburg Co. Health Dept.
  • Strategies to involve the Faith Community
  • Keeping It Real, faith-based STI/HIV/AIDS prevention curricula
  • Current research on males & pregnancy prevention
Presenters:
Reggie Singleton, The Male's Place
Kathy Putnam, APPCNC
Roundtable Discussions: All Participants

Details:
When: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Where: St. Paul's Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC
How Much:$35 (Lunch included)

Register now at our website www.appcnc.org
Contact Kathy Putnam at kputnam@appcnc.org with any questions.

Moving Daze

So, the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina is now firmly entrenched in new offices. For those of you who didn't know, we moved from our Southern Village offices in Chapel Hill to brand new offices in the South Square 2 Office Building in Durham! Our new address and contact info is:

3708 Mayfair Street, Suite 310
Durham, NC 27707
(919) 226-1880
Fax: (919) 226-1884

Our email addresses are still the same! The new offices are larger, newer and better equipped to serve North Carolina. Look for some great new innovations in the future, such as the ability to check out our library books online! Hooray!

Till then!
James, Web Elf