Teens Climb High

Teens Climb High (TCH) is an empowerment program for middle school girls from low-income communities in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. TCH provides participants with comprehensive support to make positive life choices and avoid teen pregnancy. Participants join the program at the beginning of 6th grade and remain in TCH until they graduate from middle school. The program includes a number of components including after-school group meetings, mentoring, enrichment activities and family support.

All girls participate in weekly group sessions that focus on health and sexuality education, communication, healthy relationships and decision-making skills, conflict resolution, and goal-setting. The interactive sessions build trust, promote self-esteem, and increase participants' knowledge base and skills. To see what the girls have to say about Teens Climb High. Click Here

This year the 6th grade girls created a website to educate teens on STDS. They selected and researched three diseases for the site. The three STDs listed in the site are not the only ones out there, to learn more about other forms of STDs please visit http://www.cdc.gov/std/default.htm
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This year the 7th and 8th grade girls created a website to educate teens on pregnancy prevention.
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