SYEP Workshops at YGCIC

EORO is collaborating with YGCIC on the Summer Youth Employment Program through the Office of Economic and Workforce Development.Last Week, EORO Program Manager lead a four day intensive KIS workshop. KIS is a comprehensive life skills and health education workshop to empower teenagers to recognize their roles and responsibilities around safe sex and pregnancy, healthy relationships, nutrition, and gang involvement. KIS helps youth manage risks, seek testing, and treatment, and explore topics including sex and pregnancy myths, consequences of casual sex, negotiating safer-sex, tattooing, HIV, date rape, and sexual assault. There were 15 youth who participated in the program. The youth expressed great interest in the program.