Graduate First Program

•Raise awareness of unplanned pregnancies in college-bound women and men.

•Empower young women to control their reproductive health.
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•Provide reproductive life planning education covering topics from abstinence to long-acting, reversible contraceptives.
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•The program will provide support to community colleges, universities, and college prep programs.
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Interested in bringing this amazing program to your school?  Fill out the contact form below and we will be in touch.

Partners in Prevention

If you are an organization in East Tennessee that offers services to women and children, we would love to work with your organization to provide:
​Comprehensive reproductive health education:

• Lessons cover many topics from Abstinence, Empowering Women, Comprehensive Birth Control, What is NAS?, Women's Health to discussions about the impact of unplanned pregnancy.
  
  

Train your staff with Partners in Prevention Program:

• A 90-minute training session, participants will learn about the Comprehensive reproductive health education including the most effective form of long-acting, reversible contraception (LARC) methods to combat unintended teen pregnancies.
  

Lunch and Learns

These events are for community members to learn about A Step Ahead Foundation’s program. We help women get a step ahead in life by providing effective, long-lasting birth control that they can depend on while they pursue education, career and relationship goals. The result is healthier mothers and babies, less poverty and happier families.  Complimentary lunch and learns are held for community partners and volunteers to learn more about A Step Ahead.

Empowering At-Risk Women and Reducing NAS

The “Empowering At-Risk Women and Reducing Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome” program is a prevention based program that meets women at their recovery center and provides reproductive life education with immediate access to voluntary, long-acting, reversible contraceptive.  
Goals of the Program

• Prevention based program that assists women in recovery to develop a reproductive life plan that prevents unplanned pregnancy allowing a woman to focus on her recovery.
  
• ​Removes cost & transportation barriers to accessing the most effective forms of reversible birth control available.  
  
• Educates and trains medical staff on reproductive life planning and the importance of incorporating unplanned pregnancy prevention into recovery strategies