The CENTRO DE DESARROLLO JOCOTEPEC A.C. (CEDEJO) is proud to announce a new program in 2016, offering an Educational Program for Pregnancy Prevention and Sexual Awareness with Gender Perspective in teenagers and young adults for 5 communities of the Ribera de Chapala. This program attends the vulnerability of young people to HIV and unintended pregnancy, and the choices adolescents make that have critical implications for their sexual and reproductive health. CEDEJO`s for Pregnancy Prevention and Sexual Awareness with Gender Perspective Program (PPSAP) for teenagers and young adults focuses on adolescents' knowledge, attitudes and behaviors as the evidence in our communities shows that teens are concerned about and want to protect themselves from both unplanned pregnancy and HIV, but misinformation about sex and its consequences is common and many adolescents do not get the education and access to services they need. Today’s youth faces many risks, but unintended pregnancy is a mayor issue that concerns the families, and HIV/AIDS and sexual transmitted diseases are spreading throughout the general population and young women are more greatly affected than young men. These findings have broad application, not only to youth in Chapala or in México generally, but also to young people around the world. A major challenge for countries worldwide is to recognize that young people need support to successfully transition to adulthood and to forthrightly address the reality that, by the age of 18, most teens have begun to have sex. Unfortunately, many government programs have largely left adolescents on their own by focusing exclusively on abstinence for all unmarried individuals. Our ObjectiveResponding to these risks before they become problems can be difficult. One of the goals of the CENTRO DE DESARROLLO JOCOTEPEC A.C. is to contribute to the well being of the communities of Chapala by offering sexual educational programs that would help the public understand the causes of these problems and prevent them as they have serious consequences in our homes, schools, and communities. CEDEJO has come to realize that the young adult population of the most needed communities of the Ribera have a high risk of developing drug and alcohol abuse, violence, sexually transmitted diseases, non planned pregnancies, and other issues due to the socio economic circumstances and the overall inequality of the area. The purpose of these program is not only to help prevent the critical problems that young people face in our communities, but to identify the youth with potential leadership qualities and train them to become the ones who multiply the information and knowledge for generations to come. Description of Program
Sessions = Once a week. Total of sessions per group: 3 and 1 evaluation; PPSAP total of sessions: 15 and 5 evaluations. Beneficiaries of the program = Approximately 100 young adults (5 groups for up to 20 Young Adults from 14 to 23 years old in each community). If you'd like to sponsor or help support this program, please contact us today!
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CEDEJO is proud to announce their recent collaboration with Days for Girls International as a distribution partner for their menstrual kits & an ambassador for women's health training!
Partially sponsored by Days for Girls Chapter in Lethbridge Alberta Canada, which provide washable menstrual kits to CEDEJO. Additional financial support provided by "Darlene Macleod & friends". Interested in contributing to this program? Please Contact Us!A review of what CEDEJO has been doing behind the scenes in 2014 to try to secure long-term funding, how we have expanded our outreach and programs (all realized through volunteers) and how the community can continue to support our work and ensure that the clinic remains open through 2015. CELEBRATING 2014 SUCCESSESBesides completing a successful 2014 fundraising campaign (thank you donors!), CEDEJO also realized a new website, a new informational pamphlet, a FLICKR account to showcase current photos of their work, a Facebook page, a Twitter account and some press coverage that helped spread the word about our work. In addition to operating the clinic in Ajijic and providing the free clinic in Tepehua twice a week, CEDEJO also successfully completed an all-volunteer-run (by Mexicana women) pilot project aptly named ‘Mujeres, Poder y Vida’ (‘Women, Power and Life’), which provided over 60 sessions of comprehensive women’s empowerment workshops to the Tepehua community. CEDEJO would like to, eventually, secure funding to continue to offer the empowerment workshops and to expand them to include several other communities around Lakeside. Another success was the realization of CEDEJO Director's long-time dream of outfitting a mobile health unit in order to be able to visit & provide services to the most vulnerable communities around Lake Chapala. Generous anonymous donors have provided a van for CEDEJO to use twice a week for this purpose. Director Sylvia Flores will begin this program in January 2015. MAKING NEW CONNECTIONSAs a result of CEDEJO's outreach efforts last year, new connections were made that will likely benefit CEDEJO in the future. For example, CEDEJO’s Director and volunteers met with UK representatives of the CRED Foundation while they were visiting Mexico in 2014. These productive meetings led to a partnership with the CRED Foundation which is slated to begin in late 2015. This partnership will potentially facilitate CEDEJO’s fundraising efforts in 2016 and beyond. CEDEJO also met with visiting representatives from Horizons, a Canadian based non-profit organization committed to promoting social justice and people-centered development in Central America and Mexico. Horizons and CEDEJO are currently in the preliminary stages of exploring possible partnership opportunities. Lastly, CEDEJO spent many hours in 2014 meeting with numerous officials in Guadalajara and applying for a variety of Mexican government grant programs. CEDEJO hopes these meetings and their efforts will result in some fruitful outcomes. OUR 2015 CAMPAIGNAlthough CEDEJO has been working hard to secure long-term funding opportunities, our efforts have not yet produced the funds needed to cover expenses for 2015. Unfortunately, we are in the same precarious position we've been in for the last seventeen months -- operating from month-to-month on whatever individual donations we receive. It is only through the generosity of individual donors, like you, that CEDEJO remains open and is able to provide services to the women & girls of Lakeside. To help CEDEJO through the next year and until we can realize some funding through other avenues, please consider donating to our 2015 fundraising campaign. We thank you in advance for whatever form of support you can offer. Every peso helps.
CEDEJO presente Sesión Informativa Gratuita Sobre la Salud de la Mujer. Presentado por Sylvia Flores. Conozca más acerca de los obstáculos a la buena salud que enfrentan las mujeres y adolescentes y aprenda diversas soluciones para ayudar superarlos. Reserve su asiento rellenando el siguiente formulario. Patrocinado por Lake Chapala UU Fellowship. Miércoles 15 de Octubre a las 4 de la tarde |
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