Our Mission

To help youth define their own health and relationship goals by providing sexual health education through outreach and community partnerships.

About Us

Our team focuses on supporting healthy relationships, reducing unplanned pregnancy, and preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV.

We serve the community by facilitating sexual health education, working in coalitions, and helping individual youth access health care and community resources. We have worked with schools, youth programs, and community partners since 1991.

Our Work

Teen Health Outreach offers

  • Evidence Based, Comprehensive, Inclusive, and Medically Accurate Sexual Health Curricula for High School Students
    • Teen Talk High School (Available in English and Spanish)
    • Teen Talk Middle School
    • Making Proud Choices (Available in English and Spanish
  • Workshops for Youth, Parents, Families, and Community Partners on
    • Consent & Health Relationships
    • Pregnancy Options
    • Gender Identity/ sexual orientation
    • Anatomy
    • STIs/ Confidential Services
    • Healthy Relationships
    • Social Media Literacy
  • Support for Youth to access confidential health care
  • Outreach at Community Events and Health Fairs
  • Safer sex supplies, including lube, oral dams, internal and external condoms, and finger cots
  • Community Partners Networking
    • Youth Access Coalition (YAC) - The Youth Access Coalition collaborates to increase local capacity in the Santa Cruz County area for youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health care. We share best practices, resources, and opportunities to improve youth-friendliness in policies, practices, and spaces to increase teen and young adult access to care. Meetings occur quarterly on the second Thursday of March, June, September, and December
    • Teen Health Forum - Teen Forum brings together youth-serving organizations to network, collaborate, and leverage shared resources to better serve the youth in our communities. Meetings occur quarterly on the third Thursday of January, April, August, and December.

Resources

Community Resources

Find resources for youth within Santa Cruz County

Teen Resource Card
English  |  Spanish

Health Care for Youth

Find Sexual reproductive health care

Santa Cruz Area

Click to download and print the English card.

Click to download and print the Spanish card.

Watsonville

Click to download and print the English card.

Click to download and print the Spanish card.

Know your Health Care Rights

California law gives youth the right to consent to services without a parent/guardian

Youth Rights
English  |  Spanish

Resources for Parents and Caring Adults

Find resources to better help youth in your life

Learn More

Meet the Team

 

Jazmin Jauregui, she/her/ella

Program Manager

Jazmin.Jauregui@santacruzcountyca.gov

 

Mariela Renteria, she/her/ella

Program Health Specialist

Mariela.Renteria@santacruzcountyca.gov