Workshop Session 2:
1:40 pm - 2:40pm
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7. Dating Matters: Teen Dating Violence
@ Mather. Aisha Burgess, Baltimore City Health
Department.
What is dating violence? Dating Matters is a
comprehensive teen dating violence prevention
curriculum. It provides skills for youth, parents, and
educators on reducing and preventing dating
violence.
8. Coming Out: Supporting Your LGBTQ Peers @
Talbot. Kenneth Morrison, DoMore Baltimore.
Whether you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender,
or you have a friend that is, this session provides tips
for “coming out” to family and friends , dealing with
bullying, and living your life as YOU.
9. Contraception 101: Preventing Pregnancy @
White Oak B. Vira David , Jeda Booker & Britany
Griffin, Know What U Want, U Choose, Baltimore City
Health Department.
Learn the various birth control methods for guys and
girls to reduce the chances of pregnancy and
sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.
10. Drugs, Police and Your Rights @ Shafer 4.
Judge Barnett, East Baltimore Drug Free Coalition.
This session will share information on recreational
drugs that are popular among youth and provide
participants with risks and consequences. Come and
learn the real deal about pot. In addition, this
session will discuss police relations and civil rights.
11. Black & Brown People United for Violence
Prevention @ White Oak A. Gina Baez and Mynor
Cerros, Baltimore City Health Department.
With a desire to reduce youth violence and create
unity among the African-American and Hispanic
communities, a group of Hispanic teens living in
Baltimore started this coalition. This session will
present information on a youth-led violence
prevention campaign that aims to foster better
relationships among the races.
12. Positive Mind and Mental Health @ Suite 353.
Tania Wilson, and two youth, Family Visions LLC.
With numerous responsibilities from school, work,
and at home how can you maintain a healthy and
stable mindset. In this session, participants will learn
about the importance of mental health and resources
available that promote mental wellness.
Get Talking! Get Tested! Get Treated!
Useful Information/Resources
HIV/STD Prevention, Family Planning, and
Reproductive Health services:
Druid Clinic: 1515 W. North Ave, Baltimore,
MD 21217.
Tel. 410.396.0176
Metro Subway: Penn-North Station
Eastern Clinic: 620 North Caroline
St., Baltimore, MD 21205.
Tel. 410.396.9410
Metro Subway: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Centers for Disease Control National Hotline (STD) 1.888.232.6348
Maryland Hotline for HIV/AIDS - 800.638.6252
Youth Crisis:
Baltimore Youth Crisis Hotline - 410.433.5175
National Hotline - 1.877.968.8454
If your family is in need of services call 211 or
visit www.211md.org
Black Mental Health Alliance (help to locate
therapists) – 410.338.2642
University of Maryland Baltimore
(Child/Adolescent Clinic) – 410.328.1111
Quick Facts:
1. Parenthood is the leading reason that teen
girls drop out of school. More than 50% of
teen mothers never graduate from high
school.
2. The US has the highest rates of STD
infection and teen pregnancy in the
Western industrialized world.
3. 8 out of 10 teen dads don’t marry the
mother of their child.
4. 1 in 4 teens contract a STD every year.
5. Less than 2% of teen moms earn a college
degree by age 30.
6. The annual number of STD new infections is
roughly equal among teen girls (51%) and
teen guys (49%).
General Information
Conference Goal: To increase health
awareness, knowledge, and prevention skills
among youth and young adults by promoting
prevention behaviors with a special emphasis
on sexual well-being. The summit focuses on
the needs of youth and will include youth led
workshops, special entertainment, a talent
show, multiple raffle drawings, and free HIV
and STD testing.
Target Audience: Peer Leaders, Youth,
Parents, Guardians, Youth Service Providers,
Faith Community, and Youth Educators.
Conference Co-sponsors: Baltimore City
Health Department; Know What U Want, U
Choose; Maryland Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene, Prevention and Health
Promotion Administration, and Johns Hopkins
University Center for Adolescent Health.
2015 Baltimore YOUTH
Sexual Health and
Leadership Conference
Exhibitors: Baltimore City Health
Department; Know What U Want, U Choose;
Maryland State Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene; The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
Transgender Community Center of Baltimore
and Central Maryland (GLCCB); Light Health
and Wellness Comprehensive Services, Inc.
Streetwize Foundation; and STAR TRACK
Conference Organizer: The After-School
Institute (TASI)
Youth Voices! Youth Choices
Get Talking!
Get Tested!
Get Treated!
June 18, 2015 8:30am– 4:30pm
Radisson Hotel at Cross Keys,
5100 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21210
Baltimore Youth Sexual Health & Leadership Conference
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White Oak Ballroom
Agenda
General
Sessions
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9:30am – 10:30am
10:40am - 11:45am
11:45am-12:00pm
12:00pm-12:45pm
12:45pm-1:30pm
1:30pm-1:40pm
1:40pm-2:40pm
2:40pm - 2:50pm
2:50pm-3:20pm
3:30pm –4:30pm
Check–In
Hot Breakfast
General Session I
Welcome
Youth Culture Debate
Overview: Sex & Drugs
LGBTQ—what is it?
Performances
Workshop Session 1
Snack & Transition
General Session II
Commissioner Wen
Contraceptive and HIV
Prevention Update
Lunch & Entertainment
Transition
Workshop Session 2
Transition
Teen Idol
Talent Competition
General Session III.
Youth/Police Relations,
Youth Speak Out, &
Panel Discussion with
Police & Youth
Workshop Title and Rooms
Workshops titles are in red and workshop
rooms are in blue.
HIV/STD Testing 8:30am - 3:30pm
STD testing - Baltimore City Health
Department in Suite 323.
Rapid HIV testing - STAR TRACK, University of Maryland in Suite 319.

Welcome - Patrick Chaulk, MD. MPH,
Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of HIV/STD
Services, Baltimore City Health Department.
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Youth Culture? What is and is not! What’s
good and what’s not! Performance By
Augusta Fells Savage Positive Social Change
Theatre and Performing Acts Troupe.
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Special Features
White Oak Ballroom
General Session I Highlights:
8:45am - 9:30am
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White Oak Ballroom
Entertainment
Music—Streetwize Foundation will provide
DJ music throughout the day.
Performance with a Purpose!
 Baltimore City Youth Poetry Team

Traveling Theatre
Brief sessions:
What is Sex? Rebkha Atnafou, The AfterSchool Institute
What is LGBTQ? Lonnie Walker, The
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender
Community Center of Baltimore and Central
Maryland (GLCCB)
Marijuana is legal? Judge Burnett, East
Baltimore Drug Free Coalition.
General Session II Highlights:

Welcome - Leana Wen, MD. MSc.,
Commissioner, Baltimore City Health
Department.

Contraception & HIV Prevention - Update
on LARC - Know What U Want, and PrEP Connect to Protect.
General Session III Highlights:

Welcome - Jeffrey Hitt, Director, Infectious
Disease Bureau, DHMH/Prevention and Health
Promotion Administration.

Youth/Police Relations Discussion & Youth
Speak Out - organized and presented by The
Baltimore City Youth Commission. Representing
a panel of several police officers, youth, and
Judge Barnett.
Lunch Session:

Music by Streetwize & Performance by
Baltimore City Youth Poetry Team

Led by Koli Tengella. Students Performers: Davon Maynard, Catania Nolan, Keja Barnes, and Kaylah Hadith
Teen Idol Talent Competition:
Hosts - Keith Holt, Baltimore City Health Department and Chanelle Leonard, Intern, The
After-School Institute.
Teen Idol featuring performance competition: spoken word, rap, singing, speech,
story telling, playing an instrument, dancing
etc. All Idol contestants must register to
compete at the Idol Competition Registration table.
Spoken word, Dance, Rap, Singing
Story telling, Playing an instrument etc.
Winners will receive various awards!!!!!
Get Talking! Get Tested! Get Treated!
Workshop Session 1:
10:40 am - 11:40am
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1. Teens, Sex, Media & Social Media @ White Oak
A. Chavonda Carr, Wicomico County Health
Department.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr. Do you have
any of these apps on your phone? This session will
explore how television, music, magazines, movies,
and social media influences teenagers’ attitudes
about dating, love, relationships, and sexual
decision-making.
2. Powerful Brothers! @ Mather. Sadiq Ali,
Millionaire Manners Academy.
There are stresses, challenges, frustrations,
pressures and media stereotypes but how you handle
them makes you rise above others. This session will
focus on helping African-American males soar by
helping them understand and manage what they feel
inside, and how they interact with the outside world.
3. Powerful Sisters! @ Talbot. Jill Smith, Maryland
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Karen
Buster, Baltimore County Health Department.
A workshop designed to empower the development
of positive self-perception through art therapy. The
exercise promotes acceptance of self..”the good, the
bad & the ugly”. It is crucial to first acknowledge and
then accept all parts of yourself—inside and out.
(session ends at 11:55).
4 Relax, Yoga & Mindfulness @ White Oak B.
DeShan Foret and Kirk Phillips, Innovative Mindfulness
Project.
If we can’t be WITH ourselves, how can we build
meaningful connections with others? Come and get
to know yourself a little better and learn skills to gain
control of your thoughts, feelings and actions.
5. Off to College or Work? @ Suite 353. Katrina
Brooks, Center for Adolescent Health at Johns Hopkins
University.
Whether you are considering heading off to college,
vocational training or joining the workforce there are
basics to master to achieve success. This session is a
guided discussion to look within: what skills do we
possesses, what aspirations do we have, what is our
dream?
6. HIV and STDs @ Shafer 4. Suzanne Grieb, and
Anastasia Pierron, Connect to Protect, Johns Hopkins
University.
Through games and discussion, participants will
learn about signs, symptoms, treatment and
consequences of HIV and other STDs.