We empower, encourage, inform & support.
OUR MISSION
EMPOWER
We empower students to make healthy choices about life, love, sex and relationships by connecting them to medically-accurate information, community resources, safe adults, as well as their families and good friends.
ENCOURAGE
We encourage honest conversation between parents and their children by educating and motivating families to make healthy decisions concerning dating relationships, self-esteem and sex.
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INFORM & SUPPORT
We inform and support preteens, teenagers, and young adults as they face the often confusing issue of sexual health through our 3 school programs that are reaching over 10,000 students a year.
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Need sexual health medical services? We are here to help!
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Pregnancy testing, STI testing and treatment, and sexual health services | Choices Medical
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Joplin: Call or text (417)624-8030
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ABOUT
Connection Institute is the Prevention Department of LifeChoices Health Network in Joplin, MO. The goal of this department is to offer resources, education, and guidance to encourage teens to make healthy choices. This goal is met through three programs: Project ID, Compass, and Amplify.
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Project ID is a 5-day, pre-teen risk-avoidance and empowerment program for 5th and 6th-grade students, Compass is a 5-day adolescent sexual risk avoidance program for 7th, 8th, and 9th-grade students, and Amplify is an engaging assembly-formatted event for high school 10-12th graders designed as a "booster shot" to our Compass Program.
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Each program is designed to build off of the previous to build long-lasting healthy relationships and coping skills. We strive to empower students to navigate the craziness of life, relationships and dating with confidence by providing medically and statistically accurate, evidence-based information alongside attention-grabbing visual and local resources available to students and their families.
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