About RAPPP

The RAPPP Program (Responsible Attitudes toward Pregnancy, Parenting & Prevention) is an adolescent pregnancy prevention program designed to be used within the curriculum of the health or science department of high school systems.

Southcoast Hospitals Group — and specifically the Family Education Department at St. Luke's Hospital — developed, sponsors and administers the RAPPP Program in conjunction with school faculty and administration.

All materials, models, staff support and training are free of charge to participating schools.

RAPPP Program

The RAPPP Program has many ongoing programs based on teen pregnancy prevention, parenting, fatherhood training, violence prevention, youth risk behaviors prevention curricula and more.

ACT ~ Adults and Children Together Against Violence

• Program designed for parents, teachers, and caregivers of children ages 0 to 9 years old.
• Raises awareness and educates adults and communities about their important role in creating an environment that protects children from violence.

Guiding Good Choices

• Drug abuse prevention curricula incorporating both parents and children ages 9 to 14.

"Making Proud Choices"

• This 20-hour program for middle school-aged children ages 11 to 14 .
• Teen Pregnancy Prevention and HIV/A curriculum.
• Incorporated within the curricula of RAPPP Camps and RAPPP Camps after school.
• The RAPPP staff facilitates this program.

RAPPP Program

• 20-lesson program that is integrated into a high school's ninth or 10th grade health or science curriculum.
• Hospital staff nurse educators teach the course at the onset with health/science teachers observing. When teachers are comfortable with the curriculum, they take over teaching the course.
• Hospital staff continue to instruct and support health or science education faculty and a cadre of peer leaders.

Basic Training for New Dads New Fathers Program

• Community based young men's program titled "Keeping it Real."
• 12-hour mentoring program facilitated by men who are dads that will give young men (ages 13 to 23) the skills necessary for successful parenting and involvement in their children's lives.
• Prevention program to prevent the recurrence of a secondary or subsequent adolescent pregnancy.

Incarcerated Fathers and Mothers Program and Support Groups

Parenting Worskships

• Click here to find out more information for parents.

One of RAPPP's most important tools is the remarkable infant simulator doll called "Baby Think it Over."

The realistic experience created by parenting the simulator for a weekend alerts young adolescents to the true personal dimensions of having a baby.

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Curriculum

• Life goals and ambitions.

• Decision making skills.

• Female reproductive system.

• Male reproductive system.

• Abstinence.

• Contraception.

• Sexually transmitted infections.

• Signs and symptoms of pregnancy.

• Teratogens.

• Labor.

• Birth.

• Newborn appearances.

• Parenting - a full-time job.

• Roles and responsibilities.

• Lifestyle changes.

• Financial responsibilities.