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The health and well-being of young people in Washington, DC face numerous challenges. With the highest HIV infection rate in the nation, it’s crucial to address the factors contributing to this issue, such as low condom usage, inadequate sex education, and a sense of hopelessness that leads to high teen pregnancy rates.
At Sasha Bruce Youthwork, we are committed to combating these threats and promoting healthier lives. Through our programs, we provide essential health education, prevention strategies, and treatment options tailored to young individuals. Additionally, we connect them with a wide range of community resources, empowering them to lead healthy lives and build a brighter future.
The POWER Program provides prevention and education services to youth between the ages of 13-24, including runaway and homeless youth, commercial sex workers, street youth, teenage mothers, and court-adjudicated youth. Youth are self-referred or may be referred through other SBY programs. In order to better educate and prevent unplanned pregnancies and the spread of HIV/AIDS in young people, the P.O.W.E.R. Program offers the following services:
Street and Community Outreach
Evidence-based interventions for HIV positive youth (CLEAR)
Street Smart group level intervention
Sexual Health presentations and workshops
HIV testing and Care Advocacy
Pregnancy testing
Safer Sex materials
STD Screenings
The Sasha Bruce Youthwork Teen Outreach Program® (TOP)® is a positive youth development program that partners with middle schools and high schools in DC’s Ward 7 and 8 to strengthen teen’s educational success, life and leadership skills, and healthy behaviors and relationships. By leveraging the Wyman Teen Outreach Program® curriculum, the program helps reduce the incidence of teen pregnancy and risky sexual behavior, course failure, school suspension, and skipping school.
To achieve its goals, the TOP® program consists of three interrelated elements:
The DC Prevention Center for Wards 5 & 6 is a collaborative venture in conjunction with the Department of Health (DOH), Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration (APRA), and Sasha Bruce Youthwork. Our vision is to support a healthy and drug free District of Columbia where all children are safe, drug free and connected and supported by a network of caring families, community organizations, and faith based organizations. As we identify prevalent risk factors within Wards 5 & 6, it will be important to engage in community conversations and trainings that will help to develop and sustain an infrastructure of community leadership.
We also offer and host:
• Structured trainings and workshops that will increase community knowledge, skills, and awareness of substance abuse trends and indicators
• Community Conversations on underage drinking, so-called gateway drugs and risk & protective factors
The PASS Program uses an evidence-based curriculum developed in partnership with the Urban Institute to help teens make healthy and informed decisions about their bodies, relationships, personal development, self-expression and identities.
Sasha Bruce provides programming for youth ages 5 to 21 who live in the Richardson Dwellings property and the surrounding Clay Terrace community, through its work at the Richardson Youth Center. Most importantly, the center provides a safe place in the community. It facilitates various workshops and violence prevention activities on topics such as career development, health and wellness, creative expression, conflict resolution, community service and sexual orientation issues. This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of Learn24.
The Credible Messenger Program works to reduce court system recidivism and gang violence among youth through peer leader outreach and restorative justice strategies. Its mentor-led programming works with youth and their families to provide a range of services to advocate for and support youth in the justice system, and to prevent recidivism and transition towards educational achievement, strengthened families, and job access. Credible Messenger offers emotional and mental health programs, job training, financial literacy and guidance, life skills, family support, and educational mentoring. Many mentors previously had been in the juvenile justice system and were inspired by the Credible Messenger program to return to support Sasha Bruce youth.
The POWER Program provides prevention and education services to youth between the ages of 13-24, including runaway and homeless youth, commercial sex workers, street youth, teenage mothers, and court-adjudicated youth. Youth are self-referred or may be referred through other SBY programs. In order to better educate and prevent unplanned pregnancies and the spread of HIV/AIDS in young people, the P.O.W.E.R. Program offers the following services:
Street and Community Outreach
Evidence-based interventions for HIV positive youth (CLEAR)
Street Smart group level intervention
Sexual Health presentations and workshops
HIV testing and Care Advocacy
Pregnancy testing
Safer Sex materials
STD Screenings
aking@sashabruce.org
202-675-9380
Address: 701 B Maryland Avenue NE, Washington DC 20002
The Sasha Bruce Youthwork Teen Outreach Program® (TOP)® is a positive youth development program that partners with middle schools and high schools in DC’s Ward 7 and 8 to strengthen teen’s educational success, life and leadership skills, and healthy behaviors and relationships. By leveraging the Wyman Teen Outreach Program® curriculum, the program helps reduce the incidence of teen pregnancy and risky sexual behavior, course failure, school suspension, and skipping school.
To achieve its goals, the TOP® program consists of three interrelated elements:
The DC Prevention Center for Wards 5 & 6 is a collaborative venture in conjunction with the Department of Health (DOH), Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration (APRA), and Sasha Bruce Youthwork. Our vision is to support a healthy and drug free District of Columbia where all children are safe, drug free and connected and supported by a network of caring families, community organizations, and faith based organizations. As we identify prevalent risk factors within Wards 5 & 6, it will be important to engage in community conversations and trainings that will help to develop and sustain an infrastructure of community leadership.
We also offer and host:
• Structured trainings and workshops that will increase community knowledge, skills, and awareness of substance abuse trends and indicators
• Community Conversations on underage drinking, so-called gateway drugs and risk & protective factors
cdark@sashabruce.org
202-543-5796
Address: 1022 Maryland Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002
The PASS Program uses an evidence-based curriculum developed in partnership with the Urban Institute to help teens make healthy and informed decisions about their bodies, relationships, personal development, self-expression and identities.
gibbs@sashabruce.orgc
202-675-9340
Address: 741 8th Street, SE, Washington DC 20003
Sasha Bruce provides programming for youth ages 5 to 21 who live in the Richardson Dwellings property and the surrounding Clay Terrace community, through its work at the Richardson Youth Center. Most importantly, the center provides a safe place in the community. It facilitates various workshops and violence prevention activities on topics such as career development, health and wellness, creative expression, conflict resolution, community service and sexual orientation issues. This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of Learn24.
igutierrez@sashabruce.org
202-506-7264
Address: 260 54th Street NE
The Credible Messenger Program works to reduce court system recidivism and gang violence among youth through peer leader outreach and restorative justice strategies. Its mentor-led programming works with youth and their families to provide a range of services to advocate for and support youth in the justice system, and to prevent recidivism and transition towards educational achievement, strengthened families, and job access. Credible Messenger offers emotional and mental health programs, job training, financial literacy and guidance, life skills, family support, and educational mentoring. Many mentors previously had been in the juvenile justice system and were inspired by the Credible Messenger program to return to support Sasha Bruce youth.
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