Funded Programs
In 2023-24 the following agencies and programs became part of United Way’s Health Portfolio to ensure continued support.
COA Youth & Family Centers
Opportunities, Chances and Decisions helps youth (ages 11-18) gain the information, skills, and motivation to make healthy decisions about sex and relationships and reduce sexual violence, victimization and risky behaviors that lead to STIs, HIV and teen pregnancy, using the evidence based Making Proud Choices! curriculum.
Diverse & Resilient
Healthy Youth: Making Proud Choices! Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Allied Youth has adapted Making Proud Choices! curriculum for LBTQ youth (ages 13-18) with feedback from focus groups, youth, and a pilot group to address data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey that shows sexually active lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) girls are at higher risk for teen pregnancy and STIs/HIV than their peers.
IndependenceFirst
Youth Leadership Program: Independence First teaches Making Proud to youth with disabilities at schools in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties. The program focuses on high school youth but can also be conducted for elementary age students with disabilities.
Lad Lake
Lad Lake Healthy Youth Initiative: The program will utilize My Life, My Choice curriculum to prevent and/or decrease the risk of commercial sexual exploitation for twenty-five young women ages 12-18 within Lad Lake's out of home care programs. Lad Lake will also utilize the Making Proud Choices curriculum youth ages 12-21 engaged in Lad Lake services.
Neu-Life Community Resource Center
Healthy Youth program: Neu Life uses the Making Proud Choices Curriculum with youth aged in-school and after school. Additionally, youth will receive Neu-STEPP, Neu-Life's Sex Trafficking Education Prevention Program.
The Parenting Network
Making Proud Choices plus RELATE is an evidence-based sexual education curriculum consisting of 8 modules combined with 2 added sessions from the RELATE (Relationship Education Leading Adolescents Toward Empowerment) curriculum that address the importance of understanding what constitutes a healthy relationship.
Pathfinders
Prevention Education Program: Making Proud Choices! and Street Smarts curricula provides inclusive prevention education for youth who attend middle schools and youth-serving community-based programs, with expertise in serving runaway/homeless youth populations.
PEARLS
Positive Prevention Plus: PEARLS’ strong programming components addressing the antecedents to teen pregnancy and addresses issues such as education, poverty, family, and relationships, they build their self-sufficiency, communication, goal setting, critical thinking, and positive decision-making skills.
Wisconsin Community Services
Healthy Youth Initiative provide teen pregnancy prevention and sexual violence prevention curricula focusing on youth with a high risk of involvement in the criminal justice system, mental illness, substance-abuse, school expulsion, and poverty.