Senior Health Educator

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Curtis High School (105 Hamilton Avenue)

$55000 - $58000

Position Summary : Children’s Aid’s The P2 Project (The Pregnancy Prevention Project) aims to reduce and prevent the incidence of unintended adolescent pregnancy in Children’s Aid’s priority areas in NYC by providing young people with the holistic tools to meet their greatest potentials through evidence-based sexuality education, comprehensive reproductive health services, and peer health education. The main objectives of the program are :

• Provide comprehensive, age appropriate, sexuality health education for adolescents (11 – 22).
• Provide strategies for young people to make healthy decisions and set goals for the future.
• Connect youth to reproductive health services.
• Encourage youth / adult partnerships and effective communication.
• Create and foster community and organizational partnerships to reduce the incidence of unintended adolescent pregnancy in our communities.

Under the supervision of the Program Manager of the OPA Pregnancy Prevention Program, the Senior Health Educator will be responsible for the implementation of comprehensive sexual health education and outreach activities of the OPA Pregnancy Prevention Program and the Just Ask Me (JAM) Peer Education Program. The Senior Health Educator will recruit and engage foster care youth, adjudicated youth, and school-based youth, as well as parents and guardians, by conducting outreach and facilitating workshops. The Senior Health Educator will also be in charge of training and supporting foster care agency staff members and school-based staff members in facilitating sexual health topics and implementation of evidence –based curricula specifically for their population of youth. The Senior Health Educator will work closely with other team members to ensure that health education materials are engaging and age-appropriate.

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