Our Making Proud Choices! (MPC) Training-of-Educators certifies participants to teach the 5th edition of the MPC curriculum, an evidence-based and medically accurate teen pregnancy prevention program. The curriculum’s goal is to provide youth with the knowledge, confidence, and skills necessary to reduce their risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy by abstaining from sex or using safer sex methods if they choose to have sex. Making Proud Choices is an evidence-based, medically accurate teen pregnancy prevention curriculum. The curriculum’s goal is to provide youth with the knowledge, confidence, and skills necessary to reduce their risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy by abstaining from sex or using safer sex methods if they choose to have sex.
Please note that you will need to print a copy of the curriculum to bring with you. Printable files will be provided upon registration.
Target Audience: Sex Educators, Classroom Teachers
Cost: $250
Trainings are provided at no cost to Amplify partner organizations. Scholarships are also available thanks to the generous support of our funders. Email info@amplifytulsa.org or use the contact button below for more information about training scholarships.
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. Please complete our training waitlist form (click here) if you would like to be placed on a waitlist for the next training.
Facilitators:
Sierra Carter, CHES
Training Manager
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Sierra Carter joined Amplify in June 2023 as the Training Manager. For nearly 12 years, she worked in the Tulsa Health Department’s PREP program as an Adolescent Sexual Health Educator where she implemented various sex ed programs in Tulsa County school districts and youth-serving organizations. She also continues to serve as a nationally certified trainer for evidence-based intervention programs where she facilitates best practices in sex education and positive youth development. What fuels Sierra’s passion for adolescent health is the incredible people that she shares this work with in empowering young people to become the very best advocates for their themselves! She received her bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University in Health Promotion and maintains her credentials as a Certified Health Education Specialist.
Jenny Briggs, MSW, LMSW
Director of Learning and Impact
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Jenny Briggs joined the Amplify team in August 2019. Jenny is a lifelong Tulsan who brings a strengths-based, systems-oriented approach and passion for youth voice to her work with Amplify. She earned her Master of Social Work from the University of Oklahoma in 2014 and is licensed by the Oklahoma State Board of Licensed Social Workers at the LMSW level. Jenny has over a decade of experience at the intersection of public health and community-based social work. In her current role, Jenny guides the strategic vision for Amplify’s capacity-building programs, supporting program staff and external partners to advance youth sexual health and well-being in Tulsa. In addition to working as a sexuality educator for four years, Jenny’s experiences include positive youth development, trauma-responsive care, team management, program development and evaluation, and leveraging community partnerships to achieve long-term goals.