HBP Booster Sessions are monthly, interactive workshops that enrich vulnerable District youth in building healthy relationships, choosing a career path, and learning advocacy skills. Any District youth may attend. Most participants are HBP Life Empowerment Program (LEP) alumni.

Because LEP cycles last just four weeks, HBP launched its Booster Sessions as one way to reinforce and expand on the content. Booster Sessions are one way to help youth put LEP skills into practice, including personal safety, family planning, and communication skills. By conducting Booster Sessions, we can continue to pour into our youth and help them strengthen what they have learned so they can apply it to their lives.

Booster Sessions address topics that are most-requested by youth. Workshops are designed to empower youth to change their behaviors using:

• Interactive activities so youth can retain information
• Gender-appropriate and age-appropriate classes, where necessary
• Locations across the District or through a virtual platform
• Financial incentives for participants

A Sampling of Past Booster Sessions

Controlling Your Emotions: conducted by a mental health counselor, this workshop focused on the need to control emotions, ways to prevent making rash decisions, how to identify and avoid domestic violence, and how emotions contribute to risky sexual behaviors.

HIV Health Clinic: conducted by healthcare professionals from the Whitman-Walker Health Center, this session offered free STD testing for youth. The workshop leaders explained why health screens are necessary and normal for ongoing health.

Exploring Birth Control Methods: this session educated youth about the array of birth control methods available to them. The nurse practitioner presenter explained how each method works and how effective it is.

Healthy Communication Skills: youth learned about appropriate healthy communications skills that can help them to avoid sexual activity, negotiate safe sexual behaviors and how to identify aggressive communication. The facilitator helped participants role-play various situations to put their new skills into practice.

What’s the Dilemma Youth Forum: this evening of inspiration by and for D.C. youth equipped teenagers to grow in self-confidence and self-reliance. Keynote speaker Leslie Smalls, Hollywood film director and producer, headlined a team of presenters who faced challenges during their youth and overcome odds to move into successful lives.

You can learn more about HBP’s Booster Sessions at 202.396.2809 or by sending us an email.

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