Programs
McMillen’s Top Ten! Our top ten programs have started to change over the last few years, in large part due to a growing focus on pregnancy prevention and social- emotional learning. We continue to see a large increase in knowledge from our programs. Our professional health educators provided 2,931 programming sessions over the last 12 months and witnessed a 58.86% increase in knowledge. We typically see a 35% increase in knowledge in our programs; however, in the last three
years this number has continued to climb higher. This is in large part because the information provided during McMillen programming is new information that has not been learned elsewhere. Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Expansion
The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) awarded McMillen Health funding to provide Botvin’s Transitions and High School LifeSkills Training programs to Blackford, Elkhart, Fulton, Jay, Kosciusko, and St. Joseph counties. The expansion also includes #WowTalk Cafés for youth and Parent Cafés for adults. Over the last year, we have served 706 youth with Botvin
LifeSkills and 1,122 youth and parents with Cafés. Feedback from students participating in TPP and Cafés: “[My favorite part was] getting to learn about others and having good connections. It was
“[My favorite part was] being able to open up to my peers. It was amazing. I learned I like to make other people happy. I will change my behaviors because I would rather have a better life than a bad one. I think the program had an impact because my classmates talked to me about themselves.”
absolutely amazing. I got out of my comfort zone. I learned when there is a certain subject, it’s easier to talk to people. We all learned about each other. It made a big impact.”
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