I am sure we all have our own funny stories about sex ed class. But they really aren't so funny when we think about the fact that many of us got our (mis)information about the birds and bees from halted conversations with our parents, from gossiping with our friends, or from reading the bathroom wall.
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Interpersonal Violence and Adolescent Pregnancy
Contributing Organization(s): Healthy Teen Network
Publication date: 2008-10-01
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Due to the link between interpersonal violence and adolescent pregnancy, Healthy Teen Network recommends that supports for adolescents who have experienced interpersonal violence should balance strategies that build on and reinforce their strengths and resiliency with strategies focused on acknowledging and recovering from trauma and victimization. Complete listing and access info » |
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Involving Males in Preventing Teen Pregnancy
Contributing Organization(s): Urban Institute
Publication date: 1997-12-01
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Preventing teenagers from having unplanned pregnancies is an important goal that has been pursued since the 1970s, when births to teenagers were first diagnosed as a major social problem. Much has been learned about the types of interventions that work and do not work (Kirby, 1997; Moore et al., 1995; Frost and Forrest, 1995; Miller and Paikoff, 1992). A glaring gap, however, is the lack of systematic information about how males could and should participate in pregnancy prevention efforts. This guide begins to fill that void by pulling together -- from data on programs around the country -- what is currently known about male reproductive behavior and programs designed to influence this behavior. Complete listing and access info » |
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Leveraging Youth Employment Systems to Prevent Unintended Pregnancy
Contributing Organization(s): Center for Law and Social Policy
Publication date: 2001-05-01
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Unanswered questions about this little-explored linkage between youth employment programs and pregnancy prevention remain, including questions about the extent of such linkages, the impact of unplanned pregnancy and parenting on youth employment programs, and the opinions of program staff about linkages between the two systems. In order to obtain some preliminary answers to these questions, CLASP surveyed youth employment programs around the country, analyzed data from almost 150 local programs (out of about 500 that received our survey), interviewed national program officials and youth employment experts, interviewed staff of selected local programs that are already making the link, and reviewed the youth employment evaluation literature. To our knowledge, this survey is the first attempt to gather program-level information about the intersection between youth employment and reproductive health and the most detailed summary of the youth employment literature as it relates to pregnancy and childbearing. In general, the data we provide should be taken not as a complete picture of what is going on in the field but as an indication about what is happening and what questions should be asked by further research. It is our hope that this report will spark a dialogue between practitioners in these two fields and the additional research necessary to address the many questions that are as yet unanswered. Complete listing and access info » |
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Making the Link: Pregnancy Prevention and the New Welfare Era
Contributing Organization(s): Center for Law and Social Policy
Publication date: 1999-12-30
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Making the Link: Pregnancy Prevention in the New Welfare Era offers strategies to prevent unintended pregnancy in an era in which the nation's welfare program has a changed mission, more money, and greater reach. The enactment of the 1996 welfare law allows federal welfare funds to be spent on an array of pregnancy prevention activities and family planning services; furthermore, welfare funds are no longer limited to welfare recipients who receive grants -- funds may be spent on individuals who have never been a part of the welfare system. These fundamental policy changes, along with nearly $8 billion of unspent welfare funds, allow states to consider whether and how to invest in a range of strategies to prevent unintended pregnancy. The law permits, but does not require, any such investment. Nevertheless, a number of states are creating new ways to address unintended pregnancy. Some states are linking welfare offices and family planning services -- through co-location, information dissemination, referrals, case management, education, and training. Others are tapping welfare funds to provide education, information, or services to those who might never enter a welfare office. Some programs target adults, others teens; some include a focus on males. Making the Link seeks to provide insight into different types of links and how to make them work. Complete listing and access info » |
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One Out of Every Five: Teen Mothers and Subsequent Childbearing
Contributing Organization(s): Center for Law and Social Policy
Publication date: 1998-08-01
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The birth of a child to a teenager puts the young family at risk for negative social and health consequences; the birth of additional children can further impede the family's financial, academic, and social success. Though there is a national interest in reducing the teen birth rate, strategies designed to achieve this goal often insufficiently target a readily identifiable group -teens who are already mothers. Of those programs that do target teen mothers, few have been able to demonstrate success. Teen mothers should be targeted for pregnancy prevention not only because they contribute to the teen birth rate with its attendant consequences, but also because second and higher-order births to teenaged mothers often limits life options further than having only one child.Compared to a teen mother with one child, a teenager with two or more children typically faces: - lower educational attainment;
- greater likelihood of poverty; and
- impaired health for the infant.
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Available for your listening pleasure: a podcast on the issue of adolescents and reproductive health. Stacy Kessler, IssueLab's Collections Assistant, chatted with Laura Lindberg, Senior Research Associate at the Guttmacher Institute about the role of nonprofit research in the debate about comprehensive sex ed and abstinence training.
