Greenville, SC—The Urban League of the Upstate announced today receiving a grant from the Office of Population Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support its Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. The Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program is designed to reduce teenage pregnancy, behavioral risk factors underlying teenage pregnancy, or other associated risk factors. The Urban League was one of the 29 new grantees, and the only one in the state of South Carolina, that will implement this program to their local communities across 15 states.
The Urban League TPP Program will work with youth in Greenville and Union Counties to implement Love Notes SRA EBP—a cutting-edge, comprehensive healthy relationship education curriculum that teaches adolescents how to build healthy romantic relationships, prevent dating violence, and improve impulse control. The project described was supported by Grant Number ITPIAH000190-01-00 from the HHS Office of Population Affairs.
Charlene Jones, Director of Programs and Kim Arnold, Program Manager both stated, “We are excited about the great opportunity that the Urban League has been given to provide a quality and needed program to the youth of the Upstate.”
For more information about the curriculum or to have your youth participate in this program, please contact Kim Arnold, Program Manager at 864.322.4113.