About Our
Adolescent Sexual Health Services
Adolescent sexual health is offered in a variety of formats by Together For Youth Health Educators at Success Street, area schools, and youth-serving agencies. We believe sexual health plays a role in helping students successfully learn and prepare for life.
Adolescent Sexual Health Education & Support Services can be accessed by any Waterloo School or Cedar Falls School student during school hours by student request.
Individual Health Education (IHE) Services
IHE is available through Success Street locations at East High, West High and Carver Academy. In addition, IHE can also be arranged at Bunger, Hoover, and Central middle schools, along with Expo Alternative Learning Center and Cedar Falls High School, alternative school, and junior highs.
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*For the safety of students, Together For Youth Health Educators are mandatory reporters and will report certain information as required.
Together For Youth Health Educators discuss the benefits of abstinence with each student and encourage teens to discuss sexual health, and decision-making with their parent/guardian or another trusted adult. Students have an opportunity to ask questions and receive education and support related to healthy relationships, consent, tactics for handling sexual pressure, birth control options, correct & consistent condom use, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and more. Together For Youth Health Educators also connect students to school, community, and 24/7 resources.
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Together For Youth Health Educators can provide confidential pregnancy testing at no cost to students. They also make referrals to free & confidential STI testing at Success Street.
Together For Youth Health Educators meet with students individually at the student's request; services are never mandatory.
Meetings take place at school, during the school day. Conversations with health educators are kept confidential meaning we won’t share your information with parents, teachers, counselors, coaches, or health office staff.
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Success Street is open to all students, providing a safe and welcoming environment where they can ask questions, receive education, and access resources.
Jill White, BA
Health Educator / YPT Coordinator
SuccessLink-Together for Youth
STI / HIV Testing
Confidential sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment is provided during the school day by Black Hawk County Public Health at West High School and East High School. Providers can test for HIV, syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and viral hepatitis. Free treatment is provided on site with the exception of HIV.
Referrals are made for HIV treatment.
These services are available at no cost to students.
Janine Johnson, ARNP
Nurse Practitioner
Black Hawk County Public Health
Group-Based Sexual Health Education
Together For Youth Health Educators provide comprehensive, age-appropriate, and medically accurate sexual health education in middle and high schools, as well as youth-serving agencies, across Black Hawk, Butler, Buchanan, and Bremer counties. Using evidence-based, evidence-informed, and research-based curricula, Health Educators equip young people with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions about their sexual health. Topics may include healthy relationships, consent, strategies for handling sexual pressure, abstinence, birth control options, personal boundaries, correct and consistent condom use, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and more.​ For more information, please contact Shawna Haislet, SuccessLink-Together For Youth Program Manager, at shawna@successlink.us or call 319-433-6331.
Circle
Circle is an evidence-informed program for middle- and high-school–aged girls. Circle offers a safe space to discuss healthy relationships, communication skills, self-esteem, friendships, positive body image, mental health, decision making, and more.
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Circle aims to counteract social and interpersonal forces that impede girls’ growth and development by promoting an emotionally safe setting and structure within which girls can develop caring relationships and use authentic voices.
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Circle support groups are facilitated by Together For Youth Health Educators at area middle and high schools upon request. For more information, please contact Shawna Haislet, SuccessLink-Together For Youth Program Manager, at shawna@successlink.us or call 319-433-6331.
SiHLE
SiHLE (Sisters Informing, Healing, Living & Empowering) is an evidence-based curriculum specifically for African American females between the ages of 12-19. SiHLE provides education on sexual health, communication skills, healthy relationships, community resources, and more. For more information, please contact Shinita Crawley, SuccessLink-Together For Youth SiHLE Coordinator, at shinita@successlink.us or call 319-433-6331.