CYEP
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Positive Youth Development Programs
Project Success is our method of actively engaging with youth to foster positive youth empowerment and promote healthy lifestyle choices. Through a range of youth positive youth development programs, CYEP ensures that we equip our young participants with the necessary skills and support to thrive and become successful, productive adults.
Our youth training programs under Project Success cover various essential topics, including teen pregnancy prevention, domestic violence prevention, STEM education, mental health awareness, and social and emotional learning. These programs emphasize youth leadership, fostering positive relationships, and meaningful youth engagement to cultivate a sense of belonging and self-regulation among participants.
By providing opportunities for youth and focusing on promoting healthy futures, we aim to achieve positive outcomes and empower the next generation.
Project Success Youth Development Programs
Classes We Teach:
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Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Our teen pregnancy prevention and HIV/AIDS risk reduction youth training programs are meticulously crafted to address risk behaviors while fostering a safe and supportive environment. These programs provide youth with essential knowledge and skills, promoting positive youth development and empowering them to make healthy lifestyle choices.
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Healthy Relationships-Safe Dates / (HYPE)
HYPE, our unique teen program, collaboratively engages both youth and adults to address and prevent dating abuse and domestic violence. By fostering positive relationships between young individuals and adult mentors, we help youth navigate challenges, promoting healthy futures and cultivating safe, respectful relationships.
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Mental Health Awareness
At CYEP, we cultivate a supportive environment to address the mental health needs of all participating youth in our training programs. Our focus is to build on their leadership strengths, provide the support needed to build resilience, and promote positive outcomes. We are dedicated to reducing mental health stigma, increasing mental health advocacy, and teaching strategies that foster positive mental health.
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Level Up
Our economic empowerment program seeks to enhance opportunities for underserved youth by leveling the playing field. Through a combination of financial literacy, mentoring, and healthy life choice education, we engage youth in meaningful ways. Our program is designed to engage young individuals by connecting them to resources not typically found in conventional educational programming. This initiative is administered by CYEP staff and community partners committed to promoting equity and equal opportunity.
What You Learn:
CYEP works with young people, their families, and the community to secure brighter futures for our youth by offering culturally competent, evidence-based programming that:
- Assist youth in reducing risky behaviors which place them at risk for HIV, STIs, and pregnancy
- Encourage youth to abstain/delay having sex for those who are sexually inexperienced
- Educate youth on proper condom usage
- Encourage the reduction of unprotected sex among youth
- Encourage youth to take pride in making responsible decisions
- The reduction of the frequency of adolescent dating violence and gender role norms
- The improvement of peer help-giving and dating conflict-resolution skills
- The promotion of victim rights and perpetrator beliefs in the need for help
- Decrease of dating abuse victimization and perpetration
Contact Grady Poole at 571-244-8378 or gpoole@cyep.org for more information
CYEP Youth Program video
Watch our video about our Project Success Youth Development Programs.
Our work teaches youth to be social-emotional learners, sound decision-makers, and leaders among their peers.
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Our Why:
CYEP is committed to providing youth with the social-emotional learning (SEL) skills needed to thrive in today’s society through our youth training programs.
SEL is the process of developing the self-awareness, self-control, and interpersonal skills that are vital for school, work, and life success. Youth with solid social-emotional skills can better cope with everyday challenges and benefit academically, professionally, and socially.
CYEP understands you can’t show a kid how much you know until you show the kid how much you care about them. Our goal is to offer our youth a pathway to their best possible future via these youth training programs.
Furthermore, by using a combination of research-based curriculum, group-style learning, and engaging program facilitation for our youth empowerment programs, we allow our young adults to take control of their own lives.
3 Pillars
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Teach
Equip
Unite
Artwork submitted by project success students at the
Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center
Our Partners
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