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The Metro Council for Teen Potential is a membership coalition that promotes a comprehensive, coordinated and community-wide strategy to foster youth development and encourage young people to make healthier choices. MCTP members include many youth development and youth health organizations, the City School District, City Hall, the County Health Department, the Rochester Monroe County Youth Bureau, and other concerned citizens.
MCTP works to connect its member agencies to each other. It assists its member agencies in incorporating ?best practice? models into their existing youth programs. It provides staff training and program evaluation. MCTP conducts needs assessments and identifies gaps in service. It coordinates multi-agency collaboratives that deliver services to young people. And it uses media messages to reach out to young people, to share information about healthy choices, relationships and sexuality; and to encourage young people to make full use of community resources.
MCTP believes that youth who are experiencing success, who are hopeful about their futures, and who are supported by their communities will make positive choices and postpone pregnancy.
MCTP values and promotes:
• a positive, optimistic view of youth;
• the cultural and religious differences of our diverse community;
• the family’s role as primary educators of their children about sexuality;
• the privacy of adolescents;
• youth and parent leadership;
• community supports that enhance the assets of young men and women,
connect them to a wider world and a bright future, and help them avoid risky behaviors; and
• programs and services that engage young people, that are targeted to areas of highest need, and that set out and meet clearly defined outcomes.
MCTP focuses its efforts on the City of Rochester, and especially on Sectors Three, Four, Eight, Nine and Ten.