CONNECTION

Neighborhood House Association’ s CONNECTION program is a teen pregnancy prevention program that provides proactive education to high-risk teens. The program serves teens through in-school curriculum aimed at assisting youth to make responsible decisions relevant to sexual and reproductive behavior. The CONNECTION program targets the underlying causes of unwed teen pregnancies in the community by providing education, counseling, referrals, mentoring and recreation services to local youth. 

Objectives

     

  • Reduce the number of teen pregnancies in the community
  • Reduce the number of children who grow up in fatherless homes as a result of teen pregnancies
  • Promote responsible parenting and the involvement of the father in the economic, social and emotional support of his children

Eligibility

Neighborhood House Association’s CONNECTION program is free of charge and open to teens ages 12 to 18 who live primarily in the following communities:

  • Downtown
  • Encanto
  • La Mesa
  • Logan Heights
  • Paradise Hills
  • Southeast San Diego

For more details on how you can have the Connection at your site, please call 619-263-7761.

Services

Each teen enrolled in The CONNECTION program learns problem-solving and decision-making skills, understanding of values, reproductive health education and self esteem building. Services to parents of participants include counseling and referrals.

  • Teen Responsibility education focuses on promoting abstinence and encouraging responsible behavior among teens, as well as teaching them about the reality of parenthood and the long-term financial and emotional consequences of becoming a teen parent.
  • Male Responsibility targets young men up to 24 years of age and focuses on the male’s role in pregnancy prevention and the responsibility of being a father.
  • Teen Parenting Classes

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HOURS:
Monday to Friday
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

CONTACT:
The CONNECTION
Neighborhood House Association
841 South 41st Street
San Diego, CA 92113
619-263-7761

Volunteer For This Program

Program Partners:

  • Charter Schools of San Diego
  • Planned Parenthood
  • San Diego Youth Services
  • YMCA

Funded by the California Department of Public Health’s Community Challenge Grant Program, which is administered by the Office of Family Planning, Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.