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 adolescent 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 recognizes that there are local organizations highly skilled in providing comprehensive sexual health education. Therefore, we contract with these organizations to provide such education within our community.

In considering collaborative partners with whom to contract for educational services, Community Health Foundation approaches its work from a public health viewpoint, not from faith or values-based perspectives that are the purview of family and church.

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.