Champaign-Urbana Public Health District

The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District's Wellness and Health Promotion Division is a grantee of the Illinois Department of Human Services' Personal Responsibility Education Program or PREP. Through the PREP grant, CUPHD's health educators teach the Making Proud Choices! curriculum in area middle schools and high schools. Typically, this consists of a health educator having a guest speaking role during students' regularly scheduled health class. Making Proud Choices! is an 8 hour, age-appropriate, evidence-based sexual health curriculum for 12-18 year-olds. At the completion of the MPC curriculum, youth will have:

• Increased knowledge about prevention of HIV, other STIs, and pregnancy
• More positive attitudes/beliefs about birth control and condom use
• Increased confidence in their ability to negotiate safer sex and to use condoms correctly
• Stronger intentions to use birth control and condoms if they do have sex
• A lower incidence of HIV/STI risk-associated sexual behaviors
• A stronger sense of pride and responsibility in making a difference in their lives

More information about the Making Proud Choices! curriculum

In addition to the PREP grant, CUPHD has additional awards and funding for sex education, and can often do shorter programming by request.

Programming Reach

Since the beginning of the sexual health education program at CUPHD, our health educators have implemented comprehensive sex education lessons in the following schools and organizations:

• Academy High School
• Boyz2Men Mentoring Program
• Campus Middle School for Girls
• Champaign County Juvenile Detention Center
• Community Choices
• Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club
• DREAAM House
• Edison Middle School*
• Fisher Jr./Sr. High School
• Franklin Middle School*
• Girlz2Women Mentoring Program
• Heritage High School
• International Prep Academy*
• Jefferson Middle School*
• JW Eater Jr. High School*
• Lincoln’s Challenge Academy
• Ludlow School
• Next Generation
• The Pavilion School
• READY School
• Thomasboro Grade School
• Thompson Learning Academy
• University Laboratory High School
• Urbana Adult Education
• Urbana Middle School*
• Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center
• Westville Jr. High School

*Denotes schools funded by the PREP grant. CUPHD is in these schools year-round delivering Making Proud Choices to all 8th grade students.

CUPHD health educators are grateful to deliver CUPHD's Comprehensive Sex Education Programming to over 1,000 Champaign County youth each year, and we look forward to continued expansion of sexual health education and services. If you are interested in CUPHD providing programing for your school or organization, please contact Alyx McElfresh at amcelfresh@c-uphd.org.

Coalition for Comprehensive Sex Education

CUPHD is also the chair of the Coalition for Comprehensive Sex Education (CCSE). CCSE is a group of health professionals, youth-serving organizations, parents, teachers, and students that meets quarterly to address the sexual health needs of the community, particularly among youth.

If you have questions about CUPHD's Comprehensive Sex Education Programming or are interested in joining the coalition, please contact Alyx McElfresh at amcelfresh@c-uphd.org.