LET'S TALK ABOUT
WHAT NOBODY
TALKS ABOUT.
A real conversation with Arkansas high school students about sexual and reproductive health. You talk. We listen. It shapes what gets built next.
One two-hour Zoom session. Two November nights to choose from, you only attend one. Two service learning hours, letter emailed automatically. Camera optional.
NOV 4 & NOV 18
6 TO 8 PM CT
2 SERVICE HOURS
YOU TALK.
WE LISTEN.
Village Public Health is building health information that young people in Arkansas would actually use. Before we build it, we want to hear from you.
A focus group is a guided group conversation, two hours from start to finish, held on Zoom. We ask questions, you answer in your own words, and we take notes. There are no right answers and no test. You can skip any question, and you can leave at any time.
Every session is virtual, so students from any county can be in the same room. Together the sessions add up to a picture of what Arkansas high school students know, can do, can reach, and want. That picture is what we design the next round of programming around.
WHAT YOU KNOW.
Where your information about sexual and reproductive health came from, and what you were never told.
WHAT YOU CAN DO.
Which conversations and decisions feel manageable, and which ones you have no practice with.
WHAT YOU CAN REACH.
Whether care, testing, and trustworthy answers are actually within reach of where you live.
WHAT YOU WANT.
What you wish existed, in the format you would actually open and use.
THREE NIGHTS. ONE ZOOM LINK.
All sessions run 6:00 to 8:00 PM CT. Every night covers the same conversation, so you only need to attend one. Pick the date that fits your schedule.
WHAT WE ASK. WHO SEES IT.
Registration asks who you are, where in Arkansas you live, and a few questions about your background and what health education you have had. We ask so we know who is in the room before the conversation starts, and so we can tell whether we are reaching the whole state or only part of it.
WHO SEES IT.
Only the Village Public Health team running the focus groups. We do not sell it, we do not publish it, and we do not share it with your school. When we write about what we learned, we write about patterns across everyone, never about you by name.
THE ONE LIMIT.
If something you tell us suggests you or another young person is being hurt, we are required to pass that along so you can get help. We say this out loud at the start of every session.
WHAT IS OPTIONAL.
The gender question is optional. Several questions have a prefer not to answer choice, and choosing it costs you nothing. Agreeing to the audio recording is separate and optional, and you can join without it.
DID YOU KNOW?
Four facts about Arkansas that explain why we are asking your child these questions.
65%
of every chlamydia case reported in Arkansas in 2023 was a young person between 15 and 24.
Arkansas Department of Health, STI Surveillance Report 202350%
of every gonorrhea case reported in Arkansas that same year was in that same age group.
Arkansas Department of Health, STI Surveillance Report 20232nd
highest teen birth rate in the country, 23.8 births per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19.
CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Births: Final Data for 20230
state requirements that Arkansas schools teach sex education, HIV and STI prevention, or medically accurate information.
Arkansas Code 6-18-703Arkansas young people are carrying a health burden the state has not equipped them to handle. That gap is the whole reason for these sessions. Before Village Public Health builds anything else, we want to hear what your child already knows, what they were never told, and what they would actually use.
ASK US ANYTHING.
SAVE MY SPOT.
About five minutes. Every question with a prefer not to answer choice means exactly that, and choosing it costs you nothing.
Hosted by Village Public Health and the VPH Training Center, Little Rock, Arkansas. Part of the Vibe Safe Initiative. Participation is voluntary. Questions: quinyatta@villagepublichealth.org