Adolescent Health

Phone: 410-219-7489

The Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Adolescent Health Program (Adolescent Health) provides health education, resources, and technical assistance to help teens in Wicomico County stay safe and healthy. Adolescent Health offers customizable presentations and evidence-based programming designed to help young people prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, take care of their health, form healthy relationships, and more. Services and education are provided to pre-adolescents, adolescents, parents/guardians, and community groups.

Adolescent Health presentation topics offered include, but are not limited to:

Abstinence
Communicating with children and teens about sexuality topics
Consent
Contraception (birth control)
Healthy decision-making
Healthy/unhealthy relationships
Human reproduction
Personal hygiene
Puberty
Refusal skills
Self-esteem
Sexually transmitted infections
Teen pregnancy prevention
Have another idea? Give us a call!

True You Maryland

True You Maryland offers a variety of sexuality education programs designed to help young people protect their health, form healthy relationships, and prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

All of the following programs are available to community groups and high schools.

Our extended comprehensive sexuality education program covers life planning, relationships, communication, preventing unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, and resisting media and peer pressure.
IN-clued Youth is a 3-hour sexuality education program for LGBTQ+ youth and allies.
IN-clued Health Care is a 3-hour workshop designed to help health care staff provide LGBTQ-inclusive services.
Plan A is a 25-minute video about birth control methods.

True You Maryland provides educational workshops to parents and caregivers in Wicomico County. For more information about True You Maryland program offerings, contact 443-614-7726.

Why is sexuality education important?

Sexuality education helps young people achieve positive health outcomes. Sexuality education:

Reduces sexually transmitted infections,
Reduces unintended pregnancies,
Reduces dating violence,
Delays the initiation of sexual activity,
Increases knowledge and skills in healthy relationships,
Improves communication skills, and
Improves media literacy

Would you like to bring these benefits to youth in your community? Contact us to learn how!

Resources

Adolescent Health connects youth, parents/guardians, and community members with services and resources in our area.

Adolescent Health provides Teen Help Cards to youth-serving agencies, organizations, and community groups. Request cards by calling 410-219-7489

Teen Help Card Helping Hand

This webpage is supported by Grant Numbers 93.092 & 93.235 from the Family and Youth Services Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through grants to the Maryland Department of Health’s Personal Responsibility Education Program and Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program. Neither the Administration for Children and Families nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration for Children and Families and the Family and Youth Services Bureau.