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Teen Choices and Challenges is the only Teen Health Risk Assessment (HRA) on the market that provides teens with a personal Web site after an initial assessment.
Each teen's site includes 12 pages of personally relevant health information plus interactive games and educational tools. This program positively impacts teen health by emphasizing awareness, prevention, intervention and support.
Teen Choices and Challenges is not just an adult HRA for a younger population. The program is geared for teens and offers engaging and interactive graphics and a teen-friendly approach. A variety of educational methods are used to present accurate and useful health information and behavior change strategies in ways that teens will find interesting and personally meaningful.
Teen Choices and Challenges is an excellent solution for schools, youth organizations, teen health centers and other groups serving adolescents. The program can be used alone or as part of existing counseling programs. A web-based interface will allow counselors to work with teenagers directly on the most relevant issues. Program reporting will also help organizations identify the issues that are most important to the teens they serve. This will allow for more targeted and effective follow-up program development.
By leveraging proven behavior change technology, this program can offer an unbeatable combination of high effectiveness, high participation and low cost. It is the best approach to tackling escalating adolescent health behavior risks.
What resources do you need? Here is a list of what you might need to do. Because sections of the program can be customized to fit the needs of your school or organization, you might not need all of these.
- identify/acquire a computer
- internet connection
- identify/acquire a printer
- identify a private area for teens to complete the program questionnaire and view their tailored feedback
- identify counselors
- identify local resources that can be added to your customized resources/referral list
- develop and submit protocols for managing issues like abuse or suicide
- try out the program for yourself!
If you want to know more about this program or are interested in having it available in your organization, contact us for more information.
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Your organization will need to complete a few forms to get started with this program. Click here to go to the Forms section.
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