Kings County Rural Teen Pregnancy Prevention

Empowering Teens to Make Healthy Choices

The Kings County Rural Teen Pregnancy Prevention (RTPP) Program works in partnership with stakeholders in the City of Corcoran to eliminate or significantly reduce the incidence of teen and unwed pregnancy within the community.  A program of the California Health Collaborative, Kings County RTPP is a five-year grant funded program through the California Department of Public Health-Office of Family Planning, Community Challenge Grant Program.  The goals of the Kings County RTPP Program are to: delay the onset of sexual activity among targeted pre-sexually active adolescents; to prevent pregnancies and STD’S/STI’S among sexually active adolescents; and to increase the ability of parents and families with adolescents to play an active role in reducing early pregnancy among their adolescent children.  By implementing a set of evidence-based curriculums at the middle school and high school levels, the program aims to increase protective factors and reduces sexual risk behaviors among adolescent participants:  A few of the school-based lessons include, but are not limited to the following:

                        Self-Esteem                                                 Influences

                        Self-Image                                                    Communication

                        Values                                                           Domestic Violence

                        Relationships                                              Goal Setting

                        STD’s/HIV/AIDS                                          Decision-making

            Kings County RTPP

STAFF:

Evi Hernandez

Youth Services Director

ehernandez@healthcollaborative.org

Rolando Valero

Program Coordinator

Kings County Rural Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program

Phone: (559) 244-3612 Fresno or (559) 992-1700 Corcoran 

Fax: (559) 221-6219

 rvalero@healthcollaborative.org