Briefly - Focus Group Findings: Faith-Based Urban Youth Workers (2008)
In May 2008, The National Campaign, in partnership with the Urban Youth Workers Institute, the Miranda Center, and Urban Strategies, conducted three focus groups with youth workers. The findings presented here represent some of the key themes that emerged from the focus group discussions.
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Faith, Hope, and Love: How Latino Faith Communities Can Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2005)
Created in partnership with a distinguished group of advisors, this guide provides faith leaders serving Latino families ideas to help young people avoid too-early pregnancy and parenthood. (Available in Spanish as Fe, Esperanza y Amor: Cómo pueden las comunidades religiosas latinas ayudar a prevenir el embarazo entre los adolescents.)
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Faith Matters: How African-American Faith Communities Can Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2004)
To highlight the strong connection between faith and preventing teen pregnancy, The National Campaign and the National Coalition of Pastors’ Spouses have developed a new guide, Faith Matters: How African-American Faith Communities Can Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy. Religious organizations, faith leaders, youth ministers, and pastors’ spouses are in a unique and powerful position to make a difference in preventing teen pregnancy. The guide for African-American faith communities provides practical tips to help young people navigate the difficult issues of love, sex, and relationships and avoid too-early pregnancy and parenthood.
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Faithful Nation: What American Adults and Teens Think About Faith, Morals, Religion, and Teen Pregnancy (2001)
Faithful Nation provides the results of a nationally-representative survey of adults and teens conducted in September 2001.
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Keeping the Faith: The Role of Religion and Faith Communities in Preventing Teen Pregnancy (2001)
by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Brian L. Wilcox, and Sharon Scales Rostosky
A two-chapter report, which explores some of the barriers between the faith and secular communities around issues of adolescent sexuality and examines what research says about the role religion plays in teens' sexual attitudes and behavior.
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Nine Tips to Help Faith Leaders and Their Communities Address Teen Pregnancy (2005)
Written under the guidance of the Campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values, made up of religious and secular leaders, this pamphlet presents practical tips to help religious leaders and their communities help young people avoid too-early pregnancy.
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Religiosity and Teenagers’ Sexual Behavior
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Rethinking Responsibility: Reflections on Sex and Accountability (2009)
Exactly what is the role of personal responsibility in pregnancy planning and prevention? In Rethinking Responsibility: Reflections on Sex and Accountability, 29 individuals—all leaders in their respective fields—examine this very issue.
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Science Says #20: The Association between Parent, Family, and Peer Religiosity and Teenagers’ Sexual Experience and Contraceptive Use (2005)
This Science Says brief builds on earlier research by using recent longitudinal data (see Sample section for details) to examine the association between adolescent sexual behavior and parent, family, and peer religiosity.
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Snapshots from the Front Line III: Lessons from Faith-Based Efforts to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2001)
This pamphlet, which is released in conjunction with the report, Keeping the Faith: The Role of Religion and Faith Communities in Preventing Teen Pregnancy, offers some lessons that The National Campaign has learned from innovative faith-based programs that are doing promising work around the country. It is the third in The National Campaign’s series of Snapshots from the Front Line.
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