Web-based Learning for Girls and Boys in Central America: Promoting Healthy Behaviors, Personal Leadership and Self-Care
TSI helps at-risk teens ages 10-24 develop the knowledge, skills and motivation to lead healthy, satisfying lives. The underlying philosophy is one of self-management, self-empowerment and leadership.
Sobre ti
Sobre ti
Sobre tu organización
Nombre de la organización
TeenSmart International
Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Costa Rica, SJ, San José
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Nicaragua, MN, Managua
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?
Más de 5 años
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Not yet!
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Innovación
Nombre de tu iniciativa
Web-based Learning for Girls and Boys in Central America: Promoting Healthy Behaviors, Personal Leadership and Self-Care
Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento
Establecida (pasó las etapas anteriores y ha demostrado éxito)
¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?
Operando más de 5 años
La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?
Latin America’s adolescent population (10-24 years) makes up 30% of the region’s total population of 148 million people. Six risk behaviors contribute to 75% of adolescent health care costs in Central America (i.e. accidents and violence, use and abuse of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, risky sexual behaviors, lack of exercise, and poor nutritional habits). These youth risk behaviors also influence future educational and employment opportunities. Public schools and community youth programs do not routinely have the resources to invest in adolescent health promotion education.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
In a public private sector alliance working in partnership with school and community organizations, TeenSmart provides online interactive adolescent health promotion services. The broad goal is to empower self-care and personal leadership to prevent and reduce risky behaviors and promote life skills ,Services are freely available to youth ages 10-24 and include self-assessment surveys with immediate feedback to teens, aggregate reports to schools, virtual consultation, a health dictionary, a community resource directory, forums and chats. E-learning courses are provided through special scholarships. its web-based evaluation monitoring system permits continuous monitoring of use, satisfaction and impact and tracks teens’ knowledge, attitudes and health behaviors to ensure evidenced-based continuous improvement of best practices.
El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias
The model combines three key ingredients: 1. Partnership with an existing youth and family development organization (YFDO) such as a middle or secondary public school or community based organization such as an after school or church based program. The partnering school forms a TeenSmart/Joven Salud Leadership team with representation of a teacher, counselor, computer laboratory technician, parent and student leader who are responsible for the planning, implementation and evaluation of the adolescent health promotion activities and assuring access to computers and the internet. 2. The development and active participation of a volunteer Youth Leadership Club or Committee that is responsible for promotion, recruitment and follow-up with teens and 3. Access to virtual adolescent health promotion and life skills via the website www.jovensalud.net. TeenSmart provides annual initial and follow up training and provides virtual and in-class support to the YFDO and the teens.
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
TSI works with YFDO to make health promotion and training available to teens ages 10 to 24. We work with ministries of health, education, technology, private sector organizations and foundations. TSI does not compete but collaborates with YFDO to effectively share limited resources. Through the Internet, we make services available to youth and to YFDO that lack teen health promotion methods. Using the Internet and centralizing health education information and services is a creative and cost effective innovation. Challenges include keeping up with rapid changes in technology, limited access to computers and Internet, and sustainability of a cost sharing model to make services free. No other non-profit in Central America addresses teen health promotion via the Internet in this manner.
Impacto social
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¿Qué solución/es propone tu iniciativa para mejorar la vida de las niñas y mujeres a través del apalancamiento de tecnologia/s? (selecciona todas las que apliquen)
Acceso a tecnologia, Acceso a educación/capacitación, Acceso a la atención médica, Acceso a oportunidades económicas, Cambio de políticas/Defensa de derechos.
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
To date approximately 40 youth and family development organizations are using the services of www.jovensalud.net. More than 11,000 teens have registered on www.jovensalud.net and approximately 150 to 250 teen virtual consultations are responded to each week. Currently, approximately 450 teens are taking e-learning courses, including the 14-module course CRECER para SER, the 7-module GirlSmart Sexuality Course, a 7-module Violence Prevention Course and a 7-module Nutrition Course.
The preliminary findings of the pre- and post- measurement comparisons of the pilot test of the e-learning course CRECER PARA SER among teens ages 14-17 showed pre- and post- test improvements in levels of communication with their parents, less depression, less fighting, and among sexually active teens, greater use of condoms.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
By 2015, in partnership with public and private sector organizations and a cadre of youth leaders, TSI seeks to be one of the region’s leading resources for teen health promotion. Our services will enrich schools and youth development organizations that otherwise would have no access to health promotion materials and methods. We work in Costa Rica and Nicaragua but seek to extend our services throughout the region. We hope to influence public health education policy for youth, have more access to the public school system and a sustainable cost sharing financial model, so our services can continue to be freely available to youth. We seek to demonstrate greater use and impact of these services on teens, tracking the effect of our courses on school attendance, graduation and employment.
Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto
TSI seeks to expand its interactive, web-based teen health promotion services from Costa Rica and Nicaragua into El Salvador.
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.
Tarea 1
Develop collaborative agreement with SUPERATE, a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative for youth education in El Salvador.
Tarea 2
Conduct collaboratively a needs assessment of local teens served by Superate, ages 10-24.
Tarea 3
Select and train a leadership team and volunteer youth leaders and develop work plans in the Superate programs.
¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.
Conduct screenings of 100 youth in El Salvador to be enrolled in our online courses CRECER para SER, and GIRLSMART
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses
Tarea 1
Screen , enroll and orient high risk youth in e-learning courses.
Tarea 2
Provide virtual facilitation and in-class reinforcement of learning opportunities.
Tarea 3
Evaluate user satisfaction and effectiveness of the courses CRECER para SER and GIRLSMART on knowledge and risk behaviors.
Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
A TSI Founder, Cathy Strachan Lindenberg had her "Aha!" moment when she was working as a nurse in a large inner city public hospital. Her responsibility was to care for two young girls in the post-partum unit. One girl was 12 years old, the other 14. The 12-year-old had delivered her first baby and the 14-year-old had delivered her second. There was no father in the picture and both girls had histories of substance abuse. Cathy was shocked and saddened. Sadly, this was her "Aha!" moment. It triggered her concern and interest in learning more about these life altering and often intractable problems and the importance of early prevention. After a decade of interdisciplinary research, with the advent of computers and the Internet, in 2000 she and her colleagues, with 10 nursing students developed a bilingual online health promotion website www.teensmart.net. In 2004, TeenSmart International was founded to make this service readily available to youth.
Sostenibilidad
Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.
TSI collaborates with various international public and private sector partners including: government organizations such as the Ministries of Health and Social Security, Public Education, Science and Technology; private sector partners such as nonprofits focused on health and education such as Fundación Omar Dengo (FOD) and Accion Social in Costa Rica, Fundación Uno in Nicaragua, and a conglomerate of private businesses for social responsibility, sponsored by the Asociación de Empresarios para el Desarrollo (AED).These organizations sponsor schools, libraries and community based institutions.
Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista
TeenSmart would like to increase its outreach and marketing capacity, its information technology capabilities as well as its fundraising capabilities. Any support Change maker can provide in these three special areas would be greatly appreciated.
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