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Briefly: A Summary of Effective Interventions (2009)
Investment in programs
that have been proven effective in changing teen sexual behavior is now more important than ever if the nation’s progress in reducing too-early pregnancy and parenthood is to be sustained.
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Can You Hear Me Now? Evaluating Your Technical Assistance (2009)
Many organizations have been providing technical assistance and training to encourage the adoption of science-based approaches to preventing teen pregnancy. While there is no "cookbook approach" to evaluating technical assistance, evaluation strategies are needed to document the adequacy of this approach. The purpose of this publication is to outline the strategies of technical assistance, the barriers to effective evaluation of this work, and to offer guidelines for improving our evaluations of technical assistance efforts.
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Copy That: Guidelines for Replicating Programs to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2006)
Copy That makes clear that a key step to lowering teen pregnancy rates further is to extend the reach of teen pregnancy prevention programs that have been shown to have positive results. Replicating programs proven to work is an important strategy to continuing recent progress.
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Emerging Answers 2007: New Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy - Full Report (2007)
by Douglas Kirby, Ph.D.
This comprehensive review of evaluation research offers practitioners and policymakers reviews research on a wide range of programs, including curriculum based sexuality and abstinence education for teens and pre-teens, sex education for parents, contraceptive and family planning clinics and programs, early childhood programs, youth development and service learning programs, and community based, multiple-component initiatives.
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Emerging Answers 2007: New Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy - Summary (2007)
by Douglas Kirby, Ph.D.
This comprehensive review of evaluation research offers practitioners and policymakers reviews research on a wide range of programs, including curriculum based sexuality and abstinence education for teens and pre-teens, sex education for parents, contraceptive and family planning clinics and programs, early childhood programs, youth development and service learning programs, and community based, multiple-component initiatives.
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Interventions With Evidence of Success
This searchable database includes interventions that have some evidence of success in changing behavior related to teen pregnancy. More specifically, the programs had to delay the initiation of sex, improve contraceptive use, and/or decrease teen pregnancy (including secondary pregnancy/births). More details about how the programs were selected for inclusion in this database are available here.
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Promoting Science Based Approaches to Teen Pregnancy Prevention Using Getting to Outcomes (PSBA-GTO) Case Studies
The purpose of the Promoting Science Based Approaches-Getting to Outcomes (PSBA-GTO) Case Study series is to showcase real-life narratives of grantees’ successes and challenges in working through the PSBA-GTO steps with local partners. The case studies provide concrete examples of how the PSBA-GTO process can be successfully implemented.
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Protection as Prevention: Contraception for Sexually Active Teens (2000)
A review of research on contraceptive use by teens, programs and services for sexually active teens, and policy issues.
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Science Says #4: Characteristics of Effective Curriculum-Based Programs (2003)
This Science Says research brief summarizes these characteristics and offers a few additional thoughts about their wider applicability to other programs to reduce teen pregnancy. For more information about effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy more generally, please see Emerging Answers.
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Science Says #9: Early Childhood Programs (2004)
While most programs aimed at preventing teen pregnancy focus on adolescents, research suggests that children’s experiences in programs many years earlier may also contribute to a reduced likelihood that they will become parents too soon. Indeed, studies indicate that early childhood and elementary school programs can contribute to reduced risk of adolescent pregnancy. This Science Says research brief highlights three such programs that were evaluated and found to be associated with lower risks of pregnancy in adolescence.
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Science Says #24: It's a Guy Thing: Boys, Young Men, and Teen Pregnancy Prevention (2006)
This Science Says issue brief draws largely from the National Campaign publication, It’s a Guy Thing: Boys, Young Men, and Teen Pregnancy Prevention. The three chapter publication provides data on teen boys’ sexual activity, contraceptive use, and involvement in pregnancy and parenthood. It also provides a summary of what is known about the effectiveness of prevention programs for boys, and concludes with advice from those who work directly with boys and young men.
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Science Says #43: Effective and Promising Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs for Latino Youth (2010)
This research brief details six programs that have been shown through careful evaluation to either delay sex, improve contraceptive use, and/or reduce teen pregnancy. Some of the programs were designed specifically for Latino teens and some were not; those that were not designed specifically for Latinos included Latino teens as part of the program evaluation or were found to be particularly effective among Latino teens.
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Snapshots from the Front Line II: Lessons From Programs That Involve Parents and Other Adults in Preventing Teen Pregnancy (1998)
A brief description of several programs around the country that are trying to increase the involvement of parents and adults in preventing teen pregnancy and in having a larger role in the lives of adolescents generally.
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Start Early, Stay Late: Linking Youth Development and Teen Pregnancy Prevention (1998)
This reader-friendly publication offers a concise look at what those in the teen pregnancy prevention community can learn from youth development programs. Based in part on a youth development conference sponsored by The National Campaign, the National Urban League, and Girls, Inc., the booklet offers several general principles and specific strategies from youth development programs and includes a foreword by Douglas Kirby, Ph.D.
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What Helps in Providing Contraceptive Services for Teens? (2009)
What helps in providing contraceptive services for teens? Over the years, The National Campaign has produced and disseminated a number of detailed reports and publications designed to answer this question. Here, in shorthand form, is an overview of what is known about carefully evaluated clinic interventions that help prevent teen pregnancy.
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What Works: Curriculum-Based Programs That Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2011)
This pamphlet presents a succinct overview of what is known about carefully evaluated interventions that help prevent teen pregnancy, including a list of effective programs, selected program effects, contact information, as well as direct links to resources providing additional program and evaluation information. The pamphlet offers advice on how to choose a program, catalogs the characteristics of effective programs, and offers some words of caution about what an effective program actually can accomplish.
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