Power Through Choices

Power Through Choices: My Life, My Choices (4th Edition) is a 10-session prevention curriculum specifically designed for adolescents ages 13–18 who are in systems of care. Power Through Choices was developed for youth who are involved in a child welfare or juvenile justice system to help them prevent pregnancy, HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

The curriculum’s goal is to provide youth in systems of care with specific information and skills to help them avoid risk-taking sexual behavior and reduce the incidence of adolescent pregnancy, HIV, and other STIs.

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Shannon Gleason
Director of Educational Services
sgleason@mcmillenhealth.org
(260) 456-4511

OVERVIEW

Power Through Choices is the first evidence-based curriculum tailored for the special needs, situations, and concerns of youth in systems of care, and it addresses the specific characteristics which may motivate these youth to become pregnant or engage in sexual risk-taking behavior.

Some of these reasons may include:

• Intense need for affection

• Absence of a dependable family or social network

• Desire to have something of their own that they do not have to share

• Exposure to sexual abuse or violence

• Limited skills in identifying and securing resources, other than sex, to support themselves now and in the future