The Council on Adolescents provides Healthy Youth Education Programs to more than 5,500 youth across Catawba County. In-school programs follow North Carolina's Healthy Youth Act requirements and Healthful Living Guidelines. This includes puberty education to 5th and 6th graders and reproductive health education to 

7th-9th graders. 

The Council's Programs are:

• Provided by trained health educators.
• Integrated, sequential, age-appropriate, medically accurate, and interactive.
• Framed to present opportunities for open discussion between parents and their children.

For more information about each of our classes please see the outlines below.