A multi-session, skills-building program to help youth practice safer sexual behaviors and reduce substance use. Sessions address improving youths’ social skills, assertiveness and coping through exercises on problem solving, identifying triggers, and reducing harmful behaviors. Agency staff also provide individual counseling and trips to community health providers.
The Street Smart program targets youth, ages 11 to 18. The original research was conducted with runaway youth and homeless youth, however the intervention is not limited to that sub-population.