By Estevan Alvarado & Adam Bonillas
Project Contact has returned to Pueblo High School once again this school year.
Project Contact is a mobile clinic that provides essential services—offering students condoms and birth control as well as sexually transmitted disease testing and treatment. They also educate students about safe sex and teen pregnancy.
“It is absolutely important for everyone to get informed,” said Nurse Kate Straub, who is credited for providing Project Contact to the Pueblo community.
Services are available to both male and female students on campus every second, third, and fourth Monday of the month from first period to the end of second lunch. Students can sign up for a visit in the nurse’s office, and they will be notified to visit the van with a call slip.
“Say ‘Yes’ to education! You can help yourself and your friends with accurate information,” said Straub.
She added that all services provided are confidential.
“It takes two to have sex, and STDs do not care if you are a girl or a guy,” said Ms. Michelle Magana, one of the several workers in the mobile clinic.