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**Why Choose HIPTeens?**

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Evidence-Based Results

HIPTeens has been recognized for its documented long-term effectiveness in reducing the number of sexual partners, episodes of vaginal intercourse, and acts of unprotected sex and reducing pregnancy rates.

Additional Outcomes

HIPTeens has unexpected positive behavioral outcomes for teens. It increased secondary sexual abstinence in teens who participated in HIPTeens.

Skill Building

HIPTeens includes engaging activities and skill-building exercises designed to promote risk reduction and develop a sense of mastering better decision-making, communication, negotiation, and assertiveness.

Participant Empowerment

Trained facilitators and guided group discussions and activities help to develop resiliency, peer-to-peer connections and norms, and foster positive youth development.

Client Testimonials

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has used HIPTeens with over 130 young women who were resettled in the U.S. from more than 10 different countries and found the program to have a very positive impact. The developer was always willing to work with us to tailor the program to meet the specific needs of our organization and the participating young women, so that it was more relevant for them.

VP Health EducationInternational Rescue Committee

It was very important to us to use an evidence-based intervention that showed both positive behavioral outcomes and increased resilience among participants, and the personalized touch when training our facilitators was important and appreciated, because many had never provided an evidence-based intervention prior to working on HIPTeens. Young women participating in the program remarked that discussions on sexual health were not the norm in their cultures and that HIPTeens provided them with an opportunity to discuss their concerns for the first time.

VP Health EducationInternational Rescue Committee

They felt comfortable in the groups and all “got their turn to talk and express themselves.” Common feedback from participants around assertive statements emphasized that they “learned how to respond to someone who wants me to make a decision that I don’t want to, or how to deal with peer pressure and how to protect myself.” We are very glad to have partnered with HIPTeens to serve young women in our community and highly recommend this resource to youth-serving organizations.

HIPTeens FacilitorPlanned Parenthood Affiliate

This training for HIPTeens was so helpful. I got to really practice and get more comfortable so I feel I can really be a very good facilitator and help our girls.

HIPTeens FacilitatorPlanned Parenthood Affiliate

HIPTeens flows so naturally and makes such sense when we provide it in small groups. The girls just love it and they really get engaged and really start thinking about how to be safer and healthier.

HIPTeens FacilitatorPlanned Parenthood Affiliate

Benefits of HIPTeens

Adaptations

HIPTeens adaptations reach participants with intellectual disabilities, women from the African and Caribbean diaspora, resettled refugees from 10 different countries, survivors of sex trafficking, foster care youth, and different gender identities, sexual orientations, and races.

Integrated

Our program is integrated with youth development and trauma-informed components. We provide training for facilitators using best practices.

Research-Driven

HIPTeens has been extensively developed and tested in diverse groups of teens and young adults through rigorous research studies.

Customized Training

We offer in-person and virtual training with best practices to meet your needs and those of your organization.

Participant-Informed

We developed and tested HIPTeens using extensive input from diverse teens and young adults for a truly tailored intervention.

Turn-Key

We have everything you need to implement HIPTeens in your community HIPTeens is brief, manualized and training includes all program materials.

Get to Know Us!

Meet our CEO and HIPTeens Developer:

Dianne Morrison-Beedy PhD, RN, WHNP, CGNC, FFNMRCSI, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN

Dr. Morrison-Beedy designed HIPTeens with the goal of translating research into practice. She is dedicated to ensuring your organization is supported from planning to implementation.

Phone

+1 (813) 230-3335

Email

contact@hip4change.com