Preventative Education for Students
Promoting healthy decisions to prevent the spread of HIV and STIs
Cempa Talks is a youth ambassador program designed to help alleviate the health disparities of HIV and STIs among the African American youth in the inner-city area of Chattanooga. This program increases education and awareness about HIV and STIs, establish peer-to-peer education, and increase testing of HIV and STIs among our African American youth.
To learn more about Cempa TALKS and how to bring Cempa’s programming to your school please contact LaDarius Price at lprice@cempa.org.
3,600+
Students Reached
Cempa TALKS Programs & Outreach Initiatives
Cemple Expressions
Cempa’s Cemple Expressions fights social disparities and improves health outcomes for Chattanooga’s inner-city minority community by providing awareness and education of a healthy lifestyle with weekly yoga sessions, healthy snacks, and mental health therapy sessions to African American youth.
Empowerment Sessions Program for Teen Girls
Teen girls will be able to apply the core values of Self-Confidence, Self-Awareness, Self-Discipline, and how to Take Charge in One’s Health to their lives – building better friendships and relationships with others. By understanding YOUR Values & Morals, you will develop a level of Self-Respect allowing you to stay motivated throughout your educational career and beyond. Building upon each of these components, Self-Love teaches young girls to operate by making their own choices protecting their mental, physical, and sexual health and not being moved or motivated by peer pressure.
Conversations That Move
Cempa Community Care’s Outreach Services team member, Kia Ruffin, sits down with community leaders for meaningful conversations about the importance of empowering our youth through mind, body and wellness topics.
Cempa TALKS Mind Reach
As COVID-19 spread across the country last year, teenagers found themselves shifting to an unfamiliar world of remote learning so leaders from Chattanooga program developed a podcast to help teenagers whose lives changed overnight during the coronavirus pandemic. The goal of the MindReach podcast is to make resources and conversations with mental health professionals available for teens struggling. Cempa Community Care and the Cempa TALKS team continues the podcast after Leadership Chattanooga completed their series.
