Teen HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is the Project’s activity that brings prevention experts and students together to dialogue and participate in various activities, including art, to learn of ways to protect themselves from HIV infection. As teenagers learn about HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections they are given tools to make informed decisions about how to protect themselves and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Awareness days have been held in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia, PA. ETAH will be coming to other cities in 2010!
The Youth Peer Advocate (YPA) Program encourages teens to assume leadership roles in their schools to involve their peers in planning and implementing HIV/AIDS awareness programs during the Month of March.
Focus on Youth with ImPACT (FOY) is a community-based program that gives youth the skills and knowledge they need to protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). As an adapted Effective Behavioral Intervention (DEBI), Focus on Youth targets African American youth 12 to 15 years of age and their parents in non-school settings. ETAH staff has been trained to conduct this CDC approved intervention and will begin a FOY session in the summer of 2009.
College Awareness Day brings ETAH's approach to HIV/AIDS prevention education to college and university campuses. Working with existing student organizations ETAH helps increase HIV/AIDS Awareness, promote HIV/STI education, and involve interested students in our other activities.
The Live Life without the Disease Series was developed in 2008 as a response to our participants' request that we involve their parents in their HIV/AIDS education. ETAH took advantage of this rare desire for parental involvement in this age group and developed a series of events and activities for teens and their parents. "Live Life without the Disease," is a message created by our teen participants during their mural project at our March 2008 Teen HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.