Youth Services

At NCPPC, we believe that youth development programming and comprehensive sexuality education are essential to helping adolescents make informed, healthy choices. In support of our mission, we offer a range of training and professional development opportunities. Our programs partner with schools, health services, and community organizations to provide youth ages 10–21 with the tools, knowledge, and resources they need to grow into healthy, empowered adults.

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Community-Based Education

NCPPC offers several training and professional development opportunities in support of our mission.

Youth and Adult Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid is a course that teaches you how to help someone who is developing a mental health challenge or is experiencing a mental health crisis. The training helps you identify, understand, and respond to signs of addiction and mental illness.

Adult

Community-Based Education

The Adult Mental Health First Aid course is appropriate for anyone age 18 and older who wants to learn how to help a person who may be experiencing a mental health or substance use related challenge or crisis.

Youth

Community-Based Education

The Youth Mental Health First Aid course is primarily intended for adults to learn how to help young people experiencing mental health challenges or crises. It reviews the unique risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems in adolescents ages 12-18 and emphasizes the importance of early intervention.

Both full-day courses are highly interactive and led by certified facilitators.

Trauma/Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Education

ACEs and trauma have a tremendous impact on physical and mental health, educational and occupational success, and the development of healthy social skills and coping mechanisms. They also have a notable impact on the community as a whole. This training can be crafted to meet your needs to provide information on how trauma and ACEs affect development and future outcomes for individuals, impact on the community, and different strategies that can be used to attempt to lessen the effect of ACEs.

Adolescent Sexual Health Education

Presentations on a variety of topics related to adolescent sexual health including puberty, communication, dating and relationships, birth control, and pregnancy can be crafted to meet your needs.

Safe Zone

This training is for individuals and organizations to increase awareness of the unique needs of people who identify as LGBTQ+. Within the training participants will have the opportunity to consider current practices and how they could be adapted to create a more welcoming and accepting environment for LGBTQ+ individuals.

Red Cross Babysitting Course

Red Cross Babysitting Courses prepare youth ages 11-16 to safely and confidently care for children and infants. It includes hands-on activities, videos, and discussions to develop essential, real-life readiness babysitting skills. The course covers feeding, diapering, picking up and holding children, safety and emergency response. Youth will also have the opportunity to learn additional skills that can help save a life, such as first aid and CPR. Upon successful completion, youth will earn a two-year certification in Pediatric and Child First AID and CPR.

School-Based Education

We believe youth development programming and comprehensive sexuality education are critical to helping adolescents make healthy choices. Our programs partner with schools, health services, and a range of community organizations to provide youth ages 10-21 with the tools and resources needed to grow into healthy adults.

Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (CAPP)

The CAPP program focuses on pregnancy prevention and the promotion of sexual health among adolescents ages 10 to 21, including those pregnant and parenting. We partner with local school districts to provide age-appropriate, medically accurate, non-biased, sexual health education to students in Health classes to meet New York State Health Education Standards. Evidence-based and promising practice programs include Be Proud Be Responsible, Making Proud Choices, Safe Dates, Girls Circle, and Me Too!

CAPP Sexual Health Educators are available to meet with adolescents one-on-one to discuss decision making, healthy choices, and complete referrals. In addition, our CAPP educators work with LGBTQ+ young people by co-facilitating Gender and Sexuality Alliances in schools and volunteering with community groups.

Popular Programs

Be Proud Be Responsible

School-Based Education

Adolescents will gain the knowledge, motivation, and skills necessary to change their behaviors in a way that will improve decision making and communication skills while reducing their risk of unintended pregnancy or contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. This evidence-based program will empower youth to make safe and healthy choices now and in the future.

Making Proud Choices

School-Based Education

Adolescents will be provided with the tools they need to set goals, improve negotiation and refusal skills, and reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy.

Safe Dates

School-Based Education

Middle and high school students will learn about the attitudes and behaviors associated with dating abuse and violence. Safe Dates addresses gender stereotypes and communication and can serve as a dating abuse prevention tool for young people.

Youth Empowerment and Adolescent Health (YEAH!)

The YEAH! Program provides comprehensive sexuality education at Lowville Academy and Central School District, one-on-one support for students at risk of pregnancy, relationship and boundary setting education for special needs youth, and a range of youth development activities. Activities and support services are intended to increase access to new opportunities and help young people make healthy choices.

This program is available in Lewis County (Lowville Community)

For more information, contact YEAH! Program Coordinator Harper Barrett (hbarrett@ncppc.org)