RAPPP's new Family Education Youth Resource Center open house to be held April 26
| For Immediate Release | Contact: Joyce Faria Brennan |
| April 1, 2005 | 508-961-5270 |
| brennanj@southcoast.org | |
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Southcoast Hospitals' Responsible Attitudes toward Pregnancy, Parenting & Prevention (RAPPP) program announces the opening of a new resource center for parents, youths and practitioners.
An Open House Celebration inviting the public to meet the Southcoast RAPPP team, win prizes and visit the new center will be held on Tuesday, April 26 from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the new resource center in Dartmouth Place, Pequot Building, #105, 49 State Road, Rte. 6, Dartmouth, Mass. Refreshments will be served. No RSVP is necessary.
"The Southcoast RAPPP Family Education Youth Resource Center is a friendly and fun place to go to find answers to those difficult questions — for teens and parents," said Cindy Guilbeault, Team Leader of Southcoast Hospitals' RAPPP program. "The new center will offer information, tools and workshops for today's parents, youth and practitioners. We hope people will take a few minutes to drop by during the open house on April 26."
The Southcoast RAPPP Family Education Youth Resource Center was made possible in part by a recent grant awarded by The Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Family and Community Health. Part of the state's "Science-based Teen Pregnancy Prevention in Select Communities" initiative, the grant is valued at $542,500 and will run through 2012 with a maximum of $52,500 for fiscal year 2005 and $70,000 each subsequent year.
About Southcoast Hospitals' RAPPP Program
The Southcoast Hospitals' RAPPP (Responsible Attitudes toward Pregnancy, Parenting & Prevention) program began as an adolescent pregnancy prevention program designed to be used within the curriculum of the health or science department of high and junior high school systems. Since its inception the RAPPP program has touched more than 20,000 teens and parents, including more than 12,000 students through its in-school programs at area senior and junior high schools. The Family Education Department at St. Luke's Hospital develops, funds and administers the RAPPP program in conjunction with school faculty and administration. All materials, models, staff support and training are free of charge to the participating schools as part of the Southcoast Hospitals Group community benefits program. Southcoast's Community Benefits Report can be found online at www.southcoast.org/news/benefits/.
The Southcoast Hospitals' RAPPP program also impacts adolescents, parents, young adults and professionals in the community through a number of outreach training programs and conferences. For more information on Southcoast Hospital's RAPPP program go to www.southcoast.org/rappp/.
About Southcoast
Southcoast Health System, a not-for-profit charitable organization, is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. It includes Southcoast Hospitals Group, formed in 1996 from the merger of Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.
Southcoast is one of three community hospitals approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to perform open heart surgery and primary angioplasty beginning in Spring 2002.
Media Contact
Joyce Faria Brennan
Phone: 508-961-5270
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Fax: 508-961-5876
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