Clear Up Skin Care

Acne.org is teaming up with Clear Up Skin Care, the country's first non-profit outreach program to promote healthy skin and self-esteem among adolescents. Volunteer teachers from Clear Up Skin Care visit middle school health classes in the Los Angeles area to talk about acne, acne treatments, and positive coping skills. Acne.org donates a proven step-by-step regimen to clear the skin, and I have personally donated $7500, plus 4500 sample of Acne.org Benzoyl Peroxide Treatment and 3000 samples of Acne.org Cleanser. Together, Acne.org and Clear Up Skin Care aim to relieve the shame of acne by offering an open, comfortable environment for teens to learn about and discuss acne with volunteer educators. We hope that the program will spread throughout the country.

If you would like to learn more about Clear Up Skin Care, visit their web site or write DebiByrnes@clearupskincare.org. The organization is looking for volunteer educators as well as monetary support.

Clear Up Skin Care is a non-profit organization and depends on donations to keep it going. Please consider donating to the organization through the paypal link below. All donations are fully tax deductible.


Clear Up Skin Care's program description and mission are below:

Program Description

The Clear Up Skin Care program develops and disseminates information about acne, how it affects teens both physically and emotionally, and teaches methods through which teenagers can build their self-esteem and increase their feelings of self-worth.

We became a non-profit in 2002. We are starting off slowly, at Madison Middle School in North Hollywood, CA, where we give a series of three presentations to 7th and 8th grade students during their health class. The first presentation provides students an opportunity to learn about the causes and treatment of acne. The second and third presentations explore the connection between physical appearance and self-esteem.

Currently there is a total lack of information available to youth about skin care and acne prevention in the public school health curriculum. Ms. Venus Lindo, a counselor at Madison Middle School states, “The Clear Up Skin Care program is a beneficial experience for early adolescents. They are able to obtain information they would not get any other way."

The presentations offer free, informative, and accurate information about acne and building self-esteem. The program empowers teens to understand that they can control how they take care of themselves, which will help them feel positive about how they look, how they feel, and what they are able to achieve. Clear Up Skin Care is beginning to fulfill an important need as demonstrated by a 7 th grader’s comments about the program, “I learned a lot about skin care and self-esteem. Thank you – you really helped me.”

Mission

Being a teenager is not easy; it is a phase we endure during which everything seems to be in a continual state of flux – emotions, friendships, and self-esteem. If acne is added to the mix, the life of an adolescent can seem almost unbearable.

We developed Clear Up Skin Care to help teenagers learn more about acne and how to care for their skin. But more importantly, we help them realize that everyone has aspects about themselves that they wish they could improve. As we grow and mature, these aspects can also come and go.

What is most important is that we like who we are inside. When we are able to accomplish this, we are able to accomplish almost anything we desire.

If you are interested in participating or finding out more about Clear Up Skin Care, please visit our website at clearupskincare.org.