Purpose: Alabama high school students are more sexually active, initiate sex at an earlier age, and are less likely to use condoms when compared to U.S. adolescents. Additionally only 25% of Alabama’s adolescent females have completed the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine series; Healthy People 2020 strives for 80% vaccine coverage. In an effort to address these behaviors, a program was developed and implemented in an urban high school in Birmingham, Alabama. The goal of the program was to reduce high-risk health behaviors including those associated with HPV acquisition and increaseHPV vaccination rates among adolescents by using peer health educators, known as Teen Community Health Advisors (CHAs). Methods: Fifteen CHAs participated in the program to increase knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases and reduce risky behaviors. The training curriculum utilized the Reducing the Risk (RTR) curriculum for basic sexual health education and an investigatordeveloped HPV curriculum. Topics from the curriculum included abstinence, refusal skills, delay tactics, practicing safer sex, and information onHPV transmission, disease, and prevention. The CHA training program consisted of 2.5 days of training and 3 booster sessions over an 8week period. At the end of each session, CHAs completed an evaluation form which assessed knowledge and suggestions for session changes/additions. During the process evaluation, three coders independently identified knowledge themes, and discussed each theme until agreement was reached. Results: Predominant knowledge themes identified by participants were refusal techniques (45%), delay tactics (25%), sexually transmitted disease information (22.5%), relationship advice (5%); birth control methods (32%), sexually transmitted disease (19%), warning signs of sex (15%), pregnancy information (11%), condoms (11%), health care access (4%), HPV/cervical cancer (35%), social norms (22%), condoms (17%). Suggestions for improvement included the addition of more role plays (50%) during the training sessions. Sixtysix percent of students expressed that the sessions were beneficial/ enjoyable. Conclusions: The teen community health advisor model was well received in this pilot program and may be a promising tool for reducing risky behaviors among peer adolescents. Sources of Support:University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health, Cervical Cancer Free Initiative.