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Tweens and teens: Make your dreams come true!

You can make your dreams come true by taking care of your health.  Don’t let an illness or pregnancy keep you from reaching your goals.

Sign up now for a free course that will help you have the life you want.  Learn how to become responsible for your health and your future.

PREP, the Personal Responsibility Education Program, features sessions with brainstorming, games, videos, skill-building activities and discussions.  The topics include:

  • Making your dreams come true
  • Understanding sexuality
  • Avoiding the consequences of sex: disease and pregnancy
  • Dealing with pressure from your friends and partner
  • Building a healthy relationship
  • Communicating and resolving conflict
  • Breaking up
  • Dating violence
  • Talking with your parents

Here are the details:

  • Ages: 10 to 19 years old
  • Program length: 8 weeks
  • Sessions:  Tuesdays, 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
  • Location: Kirkwood Health Center, 30 Warren Street (at the corner of Hosea Williams Blvd.), Atlanta
  • Start date: mid-February, but you can join in at any time
  • Fee:  None

You will receive a certificate for completing the program.

To sign up:  Fill out the registration form and return it to the address below.  Since you can sign up at any time, there is no deadline.

For more information, contact:
Tesi Gillispie, M.S.
Youth Development Coordinator
DeKalb County Board of Health
30 Warren Street
Atlanta, GA  30317
Phone: 404-270-2431
Fax: 404-370-7375
Email:  tagillispie@dhr.state.ga.us

AIR QUALITY UPDATE 

Current weather models show that winds will begin to shift
from the east to the west after sunset on Wednesday.

Smoke from the BioLab facility fire in Rockdale County is predicted to settle towards the ground as it moves toward Atlanta. There is a high likelihood that people across Metro Atlanta will wake up on Thursday morning seeing haze and smelling chlorine.

For more information about health precautions, click here.

last updated 10/2/2024 at 5:45 p.m.

Warning SERVICE ALERT UPDATE Warning

DeKalb Public Health will resume normal operations
for all health centers and services at 8:15 a.m.,
on Monday, September 30.

SERVICE ALERT 

Due to today’s worldwide cybersecurity outage, some services have been impacted.

  • You may experience delays reaching our Call Center, which handles health center appointments.
  • WIC benefit issuance is unavailable at this time. However, eWIC cards can still be used at authorized WIC vendors.


This outage has not only affected DeKalb Public Health, but other government and business services, in Georgia, throughout the nation and internationally.

We apologize for the inconvenience and greatly appreciate your patience, as we work with our partners to fully restore systems.

SERVICE ALERT: Our health centers will be closed on Tuesday December 24 and Wednesday, December 25th, in observance of the holiday. Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

SERVICE ALERT: Our health centers will be closed on November 28-29th, in observance of the State holiday.

SERVICE ALERT: Our health centers will be closed on Monday, November 11th, in observance of the Veterans Day holiday.

SERVICE ALERT: Our health centers will be closed on Monday, October 14th, in observance of the State holiday.

SERVICE ALERT: Our health centers will be closed on Monday, September 2, in observance of the holiday. Have a safe and healthy Labor Day! 

SERVICE ALERT

In observance of Juneteenth, all DeKalb Public Health centers will be closed on Wednesday, June 19th. #happyjuneteenth

SERVICE ALERT: Our health centers will be closed on Thursday, July 4th, in observance of the Federal Holiday. Have a safe and healthy Fourth of July!