PPHP's Education and Training Department offers comprehensive sex education programs for young people at your school, community-based organization, or agency. Our age-appropriate curricula utilizes public health education best practices and can be tailored to meet the needs of the young people you serve. Our staff of expert educators offer programs on:
Safer Sex
Contraception
Consent
Healthy Relationships
HIV/AIDS
Decision Making
Sex and Tech
Puberty
Sex and Gender
For more information to to schedule a program, please contact the Director of Education and Training at [email protected] or (914) 467-7336.
Youth Involvement Opportunities
PHASE Program Peer Health Ambassador Summer Enrichment (PHASE) program is for youth in Suffolk County. The program runs from July 11 to August 18 and meets Mondays and Thursdays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Boys & Girls Club of the Bellport Area. The program offers personal development, sexual health education, art, yoga, planting, games, and more. For more information or to register visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RKF9KRN.
TIPS Through our Teen Information and Peer Services (TIPS) program, we train teens in Westchester, Rockland, and Suffolk counties to become expert peer educators.
TIPS is a virtual, after-school program that gives high school students the opportunity to become leaders in their community and experts on sexual and reproductive health. TIPSters will learn and teach about:
Reproductive Justice
Birth Control
Safer Sex
Consent
Advocacy
College Preparation
Mental Health
Social Issues Affecting Young People
Each fall, TIPSters are trained to be peer educators, which means they get to go into classrooms and teach their peers about critical topics. TIPSters also have a unique opportunity to:
participate in special events like attending college fairs and hosting toy drives
travel to Albany to talk to state officials about ways to support their communities
receive community service hours for participation.
We will begin accepting applications for the 2022-2023 school year later this fall.
To learn more about the TIPS program, contact the Director of Education and Training at [email protected] or (914) 467-7336.
Increasing Youth Access to Care
PPHP hosts regular youth Food and Game Nights at our five Suffolk County health centers. Once night each month, youth up to age 21 can come to our health centers without and appointment, participate in education activities, enjoy food and refreshments, and receive health services if they need them. PPHP also partners with Uber Health to offer rides to and from Food and Game Night at no cost to participants.
For more information about Food and Game Night, to coordinate attendance for your youth group, or to schedule an Uber Health ride, please contact our PREP Health Education Manager at [email protected] or (631) 240-1130.
You may be eligible to get free birth control, STI testing, exams, and more through New York State’s Family Planning Benefit Program (FPBP). To find out more, call (800) 230-PLAN or email us at [email protected].
Should I get tested?
A quiz to help you understand if you are at risk for an STI and help you decide if you should get tested for STIs.
Chat/Text
An online chat tool that allows you to ask Planned Parenthood educators any questions you may have.
Roo
A phone/text-based resource that allows you to anonymously ask a bot any questions you may have.
Q-Space
An online text-based chat tool for LGBTQ youth. Chat topics, dates, and times are pre-set and chats are moderated by a facilitator.
Tea Consent
An animated video about consent that compares having sex with someone to making someone tea.
Adrift
An online game about consent. The game challenges you to follow directions and only take the next steps when your partner is ready.
Advocates for Youth
A website that provides sexual health resources for advocates and educators.
Love is Respect
A website that provides information about healthy and unhealthy relationships. The organization also provides support and advocacy to people who are in unhealthy relationships or know someone who is in an unhealthy relationship.
Amaze
A website made to provide young adolescents with medically accurate and honest sex education. AMAZE has videos about a variety of topics including puberty, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project in an organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth. The website offers a phone hotline, instant messaging service, and text service for LGBTQ young people who are in crisis and want to speak with a counselor.
When You Know They’re Into It
A video about consent and how a partner might act if they’re into whatever sexual behaviors are happening.
When They’re Kinda Into It
A video about consent that shows how to ask for consent and how a partner might act if they’re not sure if they are into what is happening.
When They’re Just Not Into It
A video that shows how to ask for consent and how a partner might act if they are not into what is happening.
Cool Not Cool
A game about healthy relationships that challenges you to decide if someone’s actions in a relationship are “cool” or “not cool”
Bedsider
Bedsider is a website offering contraception/birth control support. The website has details about the different methods, options for where to get birth control, and articles related to birth control and sexual health.
CDC
The Centers for Disease Control is the United States of America’s health protection agency. Their website provides information about many different health topics. The CDC has comprehensive and medically accurate information about reproductive and sexual health.
Guttmacher Institute
The Guttmacher Institute is an organization that conducts research about sexual and reproductive health. The website provides information about policy and laws that impact people’s reproductive health.
WHO (World Health Organization)
The World Health Organization is a collaboration among 150 member states. WHO aims to achieve better health for everyone, everywhere. The WHO website provides comprehensive reproductive and sexual health information.
GLSEN
GLSEN is an organization focused on creating inclusive schools for LGBTQ young people. Their website provides tools for young people to bring LGBTQ inclusive activism to their schools.
