Public Health Saves Lives
Positive Potential
Program Overview
Our philosophy is HOLISTIC, PREVENTATIVE and POSITIVE, focusing on the student’s development of assets and competencies. Our program helps schools increase protective factors, promote school connectedness and increase developmental assets.
The Curricula
Positive Potential is a curriculum developed by A Positive Approach to Teen Health. This curricula encompasses a variety of
age- appropriate subjects, such as bullying, self-confidence and risky behavior that are tailored to the students’ needs as they grow and mature.
PATH’s POSITIVE POTENTIAL PROGRAM ADDED TO APPROVED EVIDENCE-BASED CURRICULA LIST!
The Office of Adolescent Health spent $110M on Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programming between 2005 – 2010. The Office of Adolescent Health offered a Tier 2 Cooperative Agreement with a focus on New and Innovative Approaches to Teen Pregnancy Prevention and STI/HIV Education. With more than 200 applications, PATH was one of 41 programs chosen to develop, implement and rigorously evaluate their program. In 2016, PATH’s Positive Potential Program was one of only 8 new Evidence-Based programs effecting positive changes in behavior, added to the previous list of 32 programs.