These materials were prepared on behalf of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Use of these materials is permitted for public or private use, provided that acknowledgement and/or citation of The National Campaign is included where appropriate. For additional clarification or questions, please send us an email.
Bridging Two Worlds: How Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs Can Better Serve Latino Youth (2006)
Although teen pregnancy and birth rates have declined in the Latino community, they have not declined nearly as rapidly as they have among other racial/ethnic groups. This report summarizes research, provides guidance on effective programs for Latino youth, provides advice from those working with Latino teens, as well as the advice of Latino teens themselves. (Available in Spanish as Un puente entre dos mundos.)
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The DCR Report: Data, Charts, Research (2008-2010)
The DCR Report (Data, Charts, Research) provides in depth answers to some critical questions about teen and unplanned pregnancy. New sections with be added to the Report from time to time and readers are encouraged to check back often on this ever-evolving set of data. Certain specific pages within each chapter deal with race and ethnicity.
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Del corazón de los jóvenes: What Latino teens are saying about love and relationships (2008)
Rarely are teens themselves asked to share their thoughts and beliefs about issues that affect them. Del corazón de los jóvenes—which in English roughly translates to “youth speak from the heart”—gives both teens and parents a snapshot of what Latino teens themselves say about relationships. This document is based on findings from a nationally-representative survey of Latino teens and adults, focus groups with Latino teens, and research previously published by The National Campaign.
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Demasiado Joven (2011)
This 5 minute video is an informative, candid, emotionally hopeful, and uplifting look at teen pregnancy in the Latino community, as told by Latino teen parents. It shows how teen pregnancy is connected to other social issues and is a powerful discussion-starter.
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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 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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Fast Facts on Teen Pregnancy, Birth, and Sexual Activity
Our Fast Facts fact sheet series details data on teen pregnancy, birth, and childbearing including information on: race and ethnicity, sexual behavior, contraceptive use, and trends in the United States.
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Latino Initiative Webpage
The Latino teen birth and pregnancy rates are almost twice the national average and have declined about half as fast as the national rates. At present, The National Campaign estimates that 53% of Latinas will become pregnant at least once by age 20 - compared to 3 in 10 nationally. For these reasons and others, The National Campaign’s Latino Initiative continues to focus on helping the Latino community in its efforts to reduce continued high rates of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing.
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Latino Initiative Resource Center
Assembled here are a number of materials and activities focusing on teen pregnancy among Latinos in the United States. We hope these materials will help you initiate and/or supplement existing efforts to address teen pregnancy in the Latino community. We will continue to add to the materials listed here over time
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Latino Youth and Faith
This 4 minute video, created in collaboration with Esperanza, is a real look at what Latino youth from across the country are saying and feeling about the role that faith and the church play in their lives, particularly as it relates to teen pregnancy, love, and relationships.
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Parent-Adolescent Communication about Sex in Latino Families: A Guide for Practitioners (2008)
By Vincent Guillamo-Ramos, Ph.D., LCSW and Alida Bouris, MSW
This publication not only assesses available information of parent-teen communication in Latino families, but also pinpoints the research findings that are most useful to practitioners. In addition, the publication gives communication tips for Latino parents in both English and Spanish.
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Public Policy Resources
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Relationships in the Latino Community (2008)
Focusing on relationships is an important part of any effort to reduce teen pregnancy and to strengthen families and communities. By shedding some light on how Latino teens view relationships and by offering some possible characteristics of relationships shared among members of the Latino community, it is our hope that practitioners will gain a deeper understanding of Latino teens and how they can better serve them.
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Science Says #35: Acculturation and Sexual Behavior Among Latino Youth (2008)
This Science Says issue brief explores acculturation and country of origin in greater detail. Measures of acculturation have specifically been defined as generation status and language for purposes of this research brief.
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Science Says #39: American Indian/ Alaska Native Youth and Teen Pregnancy Prevention (2009)
This Science Says research brief focuses on teen childbearing among Native American youth in the United States and includes information about sexual and contraceptive behavior, attitudes about sex and reproductive health, and information about potential programs for this population.
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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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Stay Joven PSAs
These PSAs are part of the Stay Joven digital media project, which provides Latino youth an opportunity to share their views on what they want for the future. Videos are fully embeddable and for public use (provided that The National Campaign is cited as the source where appropriate). For questions or concerns, please contact Carlos Pinto.
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Thinking About Our Future: Latino Teens Speak Out about Teen Pregnancy (2009)
When it comes to relationships, sex, contraception, and teen pregnancy, teens are seldom asked to offer their own thoughts and advice. Many Latino teens say they rarely see or hear themselves in messages and materials designed to prevent teen pregnancy. Thinking About Our Future—a pamphlet created by The National Campaign in partnership with the Pathways/Senderos Center, puts the voice of Latino teens front and center. The pamphlet is intended to provide insight into what Latino youth are saying about teen pregnancy and related issues and highlights the ideas and experiences of Latino teens enrolled in the Pathways/Senderos Center.
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This Is My Reality: The Price of Sex. An Inside Look at Black Urban Youth Sexuality and the Role of the Media (2004)
For many low-income Black urban youth, sex is seen as little more than a transaction and mainstream messages about sex, love, and relationships are having little impact in the inner city, according to a report from Motivational Educational Entertainment Productions (MEE). The extraordinarily frank report summarizes findings from 40 focus groups conducted in ten cities in 2002, and offers many sobering insights from low-income Black youth on their views about sex, relationships, marriage, pregnancy, and parenthood.
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Toward a Common Future: Latino Teens and Adults Speak Out About Teen Pregnancy - Full Report (2009)
Given the high rates of Latina teen pregnancy and the incredible diversity of the Latino community, many researchers and service providers have identified a need for more specific information on the many subgroups that compose the Latino population to better address the needs of the community. For this and other reasons, The National Campaign and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) commissioned this nationally representative survey of Latino youth and adults.
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Toward a Common Future: Latino Teens and Adults Speak Out About Teen Pregnancy - Fact Sheet (2009)
Given the high rates of Latina teen pregnancy and the incredible diversity of the Latino community, many researchers and service providers have identified a need for more specific information on the many subgroups that compose the Latino population to better address the needs of the community. For this and other reasons, The National Campaign and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) commissioned this nationally representative survey of Latino youth and adults.
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Voices Heard: Latino Adults and Teens Speak Up About Teen Pregnancy - Full Report (2007)
Teen pregnancy and birth rates among all teens have declined by about one-third since the early 1990s. Even so, the Latino teen pregnancy rate is almost twice the national average and has declined about half as fast as the national rate according to a summary analysis prepared by The National Campaign.
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What Research Tells Us About Latino Parenting Practices and their Relationship to Youth Sexual Behavior (2008)
By Michele Allen, MD, MS, Maria Veronica Svetaz, MD, MPH, Rachel Hardeman, MPH, and Michael D. Resnick, Ph.D.
This second research review examining Latino parent-teen communication describes research assessing the ways that Latino parents’ values, beliefs, and parenting practices shape their adolescent children’s sexual behaviors.
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