What is Community Health Foundation’s Approach to Reproductive Health Education?

Community Health Foundation believes that the purpose of reproductive health education is to improve sexual health by reducing the incidence of risk-taking sexual behaviors in teens, lowering teen pregnancy rates, and reducing the number of sexually transmitted infections through comprehensive sexual health education, reproductive health care services, and community-wide social change.

CHF considers applications from sexual health education providers in our Responsive Grant process cycle, with priority on programs that are evidence-based and align with public health standards and approaches.

Community Health Foundation believes that Reproductive Health Education should:

• Build public support to realistically address the sexual health of youth;
• Engage youth in the process of improving their sexual health — from planning to implementation;
• Improve parent/caregiver-child communication about human sexual health.