Teaching Teens the Benefits of Not Rushing into Sex.. Through the Arts
The mission of Teens: What’s The Rush, Inc. is to prevent and significantly reduce the incidents of teenage pregnancy, sexual transmitted diseases, teen sexual violence, peer pressures and teen suicides. Our goal is to increase self-worth, self-love, graduation rates, social skills and provide knowledge, awareness on the consequences of choices through the delivery of no judgement conversations that are 1) delivered in a language that adolescents and teens understand, 2) focused on solutions for all children especially the underserved and at-risk community members; and 3) establishment of a network of support groups, out reach resources, helpful information and instructions for children and their families.
Keywords: sex, pregnancy, teen, drugs, peer pressure, love, self esteem, self love, bully, life, std, disease, violence, testing, arts, visual, rushing, rush, slow