Steuben Teen Pregnancy Prevention Task Force Annual Meeting and Workshop

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at the Hornell Golf Club, Hornell, New York
Building Public Will and Effective Coalitions for Teen Pregnancy Prevention

Presenter:Tom Klaus, Director, Capacity Building & Sustainability, Advocates for Youth, Washington, D.C. Mr. Klaus leads a team that builds, supports, and strengthens organizations and their capacity to more effectively promote adolescent sexual health and deliver proven, effective programs that work to prevent teen pregnancy.Since the start of his professional career Mr. Klaus has built, grown, or led over three dozen teams, projects,initiatives, businesses, and non-profit organizations. His reputation as a strategic thinker, strong organizer, innovative problem-solver, clear communicator, award-winning writer, and skilled facilitator and mediator have kept him busy as a leader in local, state, national, and international organizations. He will guide workshop participants into learning about how to build coalitions around issues of community concern, growing consensus and solidifying agreement into working relationships and partnerships.

Description:

For teen pregnancy prevention efforts to be effective in any community there has to be a community consensus that:

 a) Teen pregnancy is a problem in and to the community;
b) There are effective initiatives that can successfully minimize the risk of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection; and
c) It is important to implement those most effective and appropriate initiatives, even if there isn’t complete agreement on specific activities within the initiative.

Most importantly, there needs to be strong public will to do what is best for the health and well-being of young people. These are no easy tasks. This workshop will examine ways to facilitate consensus and grow public will.

Objectives:As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will:

1. Learn how to more effectively interpret the need for teen pregnancy prevention to community stakeholders;

2. Learn the keys to reducing community angst and public controversy around the adoption and implementation of science-based approaches and programs to prevent teen pregnancy;

3. Learn how to grow public will to address teen pregnancy;

4. Learn how to facilitate critical community coalitions to create and enact action plans to address teen pregnancy

To obtain a registration form ,please contact Kelli Mannon, 607-776-9467 x226 or mannonk@ihsnet.org.