Contact: Beverley Wheeler, (202) 741-0884

The District of Columbia State Board of Education will recognize Metro TeenAIDS with the Outstanding Community Support Award for the organization’s diligent assistance in the development of the Health learning standards. The standards, the first-ever for public schools in the District of Columbia, were adopted on December 13, 2007. 

Metro TeenAIDS Executive Director Adam Tenner and former Public Policy Manager Jeremy Ogusky will each receive the award at the DC State Board of Education meeting tonight at 5:30 pm. The meeting will be held at 441 4th Street, NW, in the State Board Chambers on the lobby level. The nearest Metro station is Judiciary Square on the Red Line. 

Metro TeenAIDS is a community based health organization that partners with other groups and agencies across the city to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS by providing youth with information and resources to make healthy choices, providing youth with activities and opportunities to help them develop into responsible citizens. Metro TeenAIDS also provides support and services to HIV positive youth and youth who are in families with HIV. Metro TeenAIDS also provides in-school curriculum called, Making Proud Choices to seventh and tenth graders as well as a range of other afterschool and weekend activities that combine fun with education and safe programs.

State Board President Robert C. Bobb said, “Adam and Jeremy provided strong evidence-based contributions to the state’s Health learning standards for public schools in the District of Columbia. The work done by Metro TeenAIDS made this document stronger and more wide-ranging, allowing for a more inclusive education for the students of the District of Columbia.”