Community & care
Prevention - Teen Pregnancy & Healthy Relationships
Say It With Music supports positive youth development through Music STEAM Recording Programs and our interactive Psychological Effects of Music SEL books and assemblies that build communication, boundary-setting, goal-setting, self-awareness, and relationship skills, helping teens practice healthy decision-making and healthy choices. Many directors use the Music STEAM Recording & Team Building Programs to create a song and music video for teen pregnancy prevention campaigns.
Potential funding pathways may include teen pregnancy prevention funding, such as HHS Teen Pregnancy Prevention and PREP programs, Title V Maternal and Child Health funds, Title IV-A, and community foundation support.
FAQs
Straight answers.
Schools, youth organizations, and health agencies searching for teen pregnancy prevention programs, healthy relationships programs for teens, and teen dating violence prevention programs often want engaging ways to build communication, decision-making, and goal-setting skills that support healthy choices. Say It With Music supports these positive youth development objectives — through SEL School Assemblies, Music STEAM Recording Programs, and SEL supplemental books — by reinforcing protective factors such as self-awareness, communication, boundary-setting, goal-setting, and resistance to negative peer influence. SIWM does not provide sexual-health education or clinical services and does not claim to prevent pregnancy; it is a supplemental SEL and youth-engagement resource that can complement evidence-based sexual-health and healthy-relationships education where such education is required.
SIWM offers SEL School Assemblies, Music STEAM Recording Programs, and Psychological Effects of Music SEL supplemental books that reinforce communication, decision-making, self-awareness, and goal-setting. These support positive youth development and can complement an organization’s evidence-based sexual-health or healthy-relationships curriculum.
SIWM reinforces the social-emotional skills — communication, boundary-setting, goal-setting, and healthy decision-making — associated with healthy relationships and positive youth development. It provides engaging, creative activities that complement, and do not replace, required sexual-health education.
No. SIWM does not provide sexual-health education or clinical services and does not replace evidence-based sexual-health curricula. It supplements them with SEL and youth-engagement activities.
Through songwriting, recording, and guided reflection, SIWM’s Music STEAM Recording Programs give youth practice in communication, collaboration, and self-expression. The Psychological Effects of Music books reinforce self-awareness and decision-making. Both support the goal-setting and healthy-choice skills that healthy-relationships programming aims to build.
SIWM programming can be tailored for middle school and high school students and delivered in schools, afterschool programs, and community organizations, in person or virtually, alongside required health education.
Organizations commonly investigate the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP) and the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) (administered through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services / Office of Population Affairs and state agencies), the Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant, and, for teen-dating-violence work, certain OJJDP/Department of Justice youth funding. These are potential categories; SIWM would be positioned as a supplemental SEL and engagement resource, not as the required evidence-based curriculum, and allowability must be confirmed with the funder.
How this program runs
Same SIWM work. Built for Prevention.
Start with the social emotional learning books. Add a keynote. Bring a recording program when you want participants writing and performing — we produce the song and video.
Aligned with prevention priorities by strengthening protective factors, positive decision-making, healthy coping and peer connection. Youth use music and media to develop prevention messages while building SEL, leadership, resilience and community awareness. CASEL 5 SEL competencies; SAMHSA prevention framework & protective factors; trauma-informed, strengths-based practice; National Core Arts (Music/Media Arts).
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The Psychological Effects of Music
SEL books & curriculum
SEL books by Ava Johnson plus keynotes for the same rooms.
Ava the Aviator
Keynotes & assemblies
Interactive talks on the science of sound and the psychology of music.
The studio
Recording & music video program
Participants write and perform. We record, produce, and film.