We provide education presentations, technical
assistance and consultation on a range of topics including:
Comprehensive Sexuality Education including
Abstinence
Family Planning and Birth Control
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
HIV/AIDS Prevention
Healthy Relationships including Dating Violence
Prevention
Unhealthy Media Messages/Media Literacy
Youth Developmental Assets
Spectrum
School Based Health Clinic
The first School Based Health
Clinic
(SBHC) in Kitsap County opened its services to Spectrum students
in September 2003. After a year of planning and preparation,
which included input and presentations from students, parents,
and community members, the North Kitsap School District Board
voted in April 2003 to approve the clinic’s opening.
The clinic is a result of a partnership between the North
Kitsap School District and the Kitsap County Health District.
For more information on the School Based Health Clinic, click
on the following links:
In a random sample of Kitsap County adults’
ages 18 and older, more than 9 in 10 supported the concept of education
to prevent AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases for all junior
and senior high school students.
Nearly half of 15 to 19 year olds say they
believe that the average teen does not have enough information
about sexuality and reproduction.
Teens say they get information about sex and
birth control from a variety of sources including:
parents - 72%
teacher, school nurses, or sex education classes - 69%
friends - 60%
media, including TV and movies -
53%
magazines - 39%
In the United States each year, 3 million teens
will contract a sexually transmitted disease, and many of these
young people will suffer long-term health consequences as a result.
About one in every four new HIV infections
in the U.S. occur within the first six months of initiating intercourse.
Eighty four percent of all pregnancies to teenagers
are unintended.
Half of all premarital pregnancies occur within
the first six months of initiating intercourse.
Teenagers wait an average of nearly one-year
between initiating intercourse and making their first visit to
family planning services.
Teens report the most common reasons for not using
protection were:
They were not planning for sex.
They did not think pregnancy or infection
could occur.
Their partner did not want to use protection.
They did not know where to get protection.
They did not feel comfortable going to a clinic.
They did not get around to it.
Source:
Kitsap Sexual Assault Center
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 1995
Health Status of Bremerton Kitsap County, 1995
