A School Based Intervention to Improve Youth Sexual Health Education and Services

Under a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has embarked on a five year pilot project to evaluate a new sexual health program with an objective of improving student access to sexual health services. Our research team, consisting of experts in community based participatory research and community health evaluation, has collaborated with CPS to evaluate a formal, sexual health services referral process for Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and to conduct a formative evaluation of this referral process and of the new sexual health curriculum into the CPS curriculum.