For the 2010 April vacation RSYP is taking a group of 6 people down to New Orleans to volunteer at the St. Bernard Project. We will be rebuilding homes that are still damaged from the hurricane.  Fundraising efforts are now underway. Contact Michele at email hidden; JavaScript is required if you have any questions!

Please note that Tapestry Health is back in South Berkshire County!
Mondays at VIM 4:15p-6:15p there is a counselor who can do testing, give out supplies (birth control, emergency contraception), and do intake counseling.  Katrina Mattson is also available for outreach once/month at alternative sites (like RSYP).

More Resources from CHP:
Linda Baxter (at the East Mountain Medical complex) and Lisa Sylvia (who is at the 4th floor) both want to make sure young people know that they are TEEN FRIENDLY!  If anyone wants to have a confidential conversation with either of these women, they should call and ask to speak directly with them or one of their nurses.  Youth could make appointments for “migraines” if they need to see one of them but don’t want to reveal the reason until they are in the room with one of the clinicians.  Linda Baxter is also open to changing her hours, thinking outside the box in order to help serve youth.

Title: Bringing sexuality education to the classroom
Location: Berkshire South Community Center, Jennifer House
Description: Nov. 24, 2pm-5pm, Berkshire South’s Jennifer House meeting room (next to Barrington Brewery building)
Follow-up training #2, this time the topic will be how to launch a peer education program. We had 6 youth and 17 adults trained in PP’s Sex Educator series this summer, and a teacher or guidance from all three schools–Mt. Everett, Monument and Lee. They are all eager to start incorporating the curriculum in the classroom, and invite our youth educators to begin by coming into the 8-10th grade classrooms. Planned Parenthood facilitator Lesley Kayan will help us get this off the ground.  THIS TRAINING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2009-11-24
End Time: 17:00

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Title: Bringing sexual health services and education to South County
Location: Berkshire South Community Center, conference room
Description: Nov. 10, 2pm-5pm, Berkshire South Community Center conference room (in the main building)
Follow-up training–OPEN TO ALL, including but not limited to the 23 people who were certified w/ Planned Parenthood this summer to coordinate health clinic services in Great Barrington. We have a local gyno, VIM, and Tapestry all offering clinic time, so we’re going to pull these pieces together at this meeting and create an outreach strategy so that parents and teens KNOW about the clinic and which days/times they are open. As an addition to this piece of the workshop, Planned Parenthood facilitator Lesley Kayan will do a one-hour training on how to talk to parents about sex. We’re hoping this will help with outreach, and those who are specifically interested in just working with parents.
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2009-11-10
End Time: 15:00