In its over-ten year history, The National Campaign has produced hundreds of pieces on teen and unplanned pregnancy. In order to simplify the search process, we have attempted to group our resources into several categories; because many publications deal with multiple topics, some titles are listed twice.
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20-Somethings
Careful, Current, and Consistent: Tips to Improve Contraceptive Use (2010)
by James Jaccard, Ph.D.
Many practitioners and researchers recognize the value of effective client-centered communication about contraception, and the potential impact that this interchange can have on a client’s use of contraception. Clients also often report that they want information about contraception from their healthcare providers. The tips in this publication provide suggestions on improving current contraceptive counseling—particularly for younger clients—and offer specific ways to help these clients reduce their risk of unplanned pregnancy.
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The Changing Twenties (2008)
The Changing Twenties presents what William A. Galston, Ph.D.—National Campaign Board member, Brookings Institution scholar, and one of the nation’s preeminent social scientists—offered at the event on this most interesting issue.
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The Consequences of Unintended Pregnancy
This white paper provides a critical review of the current research literature on the consequences of unintended childbearing for families and children.
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The DCR Report (2008)
The DCR Report (Data, Charts, Research) provides in depth answers to some critical questions about unplanned pregnancy. At present, the report is divided into four sections, unplanned pregnancy among all women, unplanned pregnancy among unmarried 20-somethings, resolution of unplanned pregnancy, and births resulting from an unplanned pregnancy among men. New sections with be added to the DCR Report from time to time and readers are encouraged to check back often on this ever-evolving set of data.
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The Fog Zone: How Misperceptions, Magical Thinking, and Ambivalence Put Young Adults at Risk for Unplanned Pregnancy (2009)
This research is based on a nationally representative survey of 1,800 unmarried young adults aged 18-29 and is the first of its kind to focus in depth on the attitudes and behavior of unmarried young adults--both men and women-- regarding pregnancy planning, contraception, and related issues.
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Getting Started at Community Colleges: Reducing Unplanned Pregnancy and Strengthening Academic Achievement (2009)
Even if preventing unplanned pregnancy has not been on your school’s radar screen, we encourage community colleges to start directly addressing unplanned pregnancy and building knowledge, experience, and lessons that will help advance this work. This guide takes community college practitioners through 10 key steps for starting an effective unplanned pregnancy prevention program in their school.
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Magical Thinking: Young Adults’ Attitudes and Beliefs About Sex, Contraception, and Unplanned Pregnancy - Results from a Public Opinion Survey
Given the high rate of unplanned pregnancy among young adults, The National Campaign and Self magazine are pleased to present the results of a public opinion survey of young adults (ages 18-29) on relationships, sex, fertility, contraception, and unplanned pregnancy. It is our fondest hope that the results presented here will shed some light on the attitudes young adults have toward these important topics.
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That's What He Said: What Guys Think About Sex, Love, Contraception, and Relationships (2010)
To date, much of the research on teen and unplanned pregnancy—its causes and remedies—has focused on girls and women. But the nearly 1.5 million teen girls and single women in their early 20s who find themselves unintentionally pregnant every year don’t get there by themselves. The National Campaign partnered with Seventeen magazine to better understand what guys think about these issues.
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Unlocking the Contraception Conundrum: Reducing Unplanned Pregnancies in Emerging Adulthood (2009)
by James Jaccard, Ph.D.
This 230-page report provides a detailed summary of what is known from scientific literature about contraceptive use among young adults in the United States. The publication explores such topics as the theoretical framework for analyzing contraceptive behavior, switching between methods of contraception, and program design. Dr. Jaccard also makes specific recommendations about policy and practice.
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What 20-Somethings Are Saying About Pregnancy, Sex, and Childbearing: Findings From Focus Groups (2007)
Here are some toplines from 16 separate focus groups conducted with women and men in their
twenties regarding unplanned pregnancy and related issues. The National Campaign remains committed to learning more about one of our primary target audiences and will conduct additional focus groups in the weeks and months ahead.
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Adolescent Behavior
14 and Younger: The Sexual Behavior of Young Adolescents - Full Report (2003)
This report answers some lingering questions concerning this age group's sexual activity, pregnancy rate, contraceptive use, dating patterns, and communication with their parents about sex and related issues.
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The Adolescent Brain: A Work in Progress (2005)
The authors of this volume explore adolescent neurological development, and recommend incorporating their research into discussions on adolescent sexual behavior and pregnancy.
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Sexual Risk and Protective Factors: Factors Affecting Teen Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, Childbearing, and Sexually Transmitted Disease: Which Are Important? Which Can You Change? - Full Report (2007)
Understanding important factors related to sexual behavior is important not only to change that behavior; it is important to identify those teens who are most at risk of having sex and unprotected sex. This report identifies many of these factors and explains their implications for those working to help youth avoid risky sexual behaviors and potential consequences.
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Sexual Risk and Protective Factors: Factors Affecting Teen Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, Childbearing, and Sexually Transmitted Disease: Which Are Important? Which Can You Change? - Summary (2007)
Understanding important factors related to sexual behavior is important not only to change that behavior; it is important to identify those teens who are most at risk of having sex and unprotected sex. This report identifies many of these factors and explains their implications for those working to help youth avoid risky sexual behaviors and potential consequences.
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African-American Community
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 new 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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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 new 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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Boys/Young Men
The DCR Report: Section D - Births Resulting from an
Unplanned Pregnancy Among
Men in the United States (2008)
The DCR Report (Data, Charts, Research) provides in depth answers to some critical questions about unplanned pregnancy. At present, the report is divided into three sections, unplanned pregnancy among all women, unplanned pregnancy among unmarried 20-somethings, and resolution of unplanned pregnancy. New sections with be added to the DCR Report from time to time and readers are encouraged to check back often on this ever-evolving set of data.
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It's a Guy Thing: Boys, Young Men, and Teen Pregnancy Prevention (2006)
Although girls have traditionally been the major focus of efforts to prevent teen pregnancy, the importance of targeting teen boys and young men is increasingly apparent to researchers, practitioners, parents, and others who work with youth. One of the many reasons for this new focus is that the substantial reductions in teen pregnancy and birth rates in recent years can be attributed, in part, to dramatic shifts in the sexual behavior of boys.
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That's What He Said: What Guys Think About Sex, Love, Contraception, and Relationships (2010)
To date, much of the research on teen and unplanned pregnancy—its causes and remedies—has focused on girls and women. But the nearly 1.5 million teen girls and single women in their early 20s who find themselves unintentionally pregnant every year don’t get there by themselves. The National Campaign partnered with Seventeen magazine to better understand what guys think about these issues.
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Children
Playing Catch-Up: How Children Born to Teen Mothers Fare (2005)
Children of teen mothers aged 17 and younger begin kindergarten with lower levels of school readiness than those children born to older mothers, according to new research published by The National Campaign. The report also notes that children born to mother aged 18-19 do not perform much better on most measures than children born to mothers 17 and younger.
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Contraception
Careful, Current, and Consistent: Tips to Improve Contraceptive Use (2010)
by James Jaccard, Ph.D.
Many practitioners and researchers recognize the value of effective client-centered communication about contraception, and the potential impact that this interchange can have on a client’s use of contraception. Clients also often report that they want information about contraception from their healthcare providers. The tips in this publication provide suggestions on improving current contraceptive counseling—particularly for younger clients—and offer specific ways to help these clients reduce their risk of unplanned pregnancy.
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Magical Thinking: Young Adults’ Attitudes and Beliefs About Sex, Contraception, and Unplanned Pregnancy - Results from a Public Opinion Survey (2009)
Given the high rate of unplanned pregnancy among young adults, The National Campaign and Self magazine are pleased to present the results of a public opinion survey of young adults (ages 18-29) on relationships, sex, fertility, contraception, and unplanned pregnancy. It is our fondest hope that the results presented here will shed some light on the attitudes young adults have toward these important topics.
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Provider's Perspectives: Perceived Barriers to Contraceptive Use in Youth and Young Adults (2008)
In 2008, National Campaign partnered with the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
(ARHP) to learn more about providers’
perspectives of unintended pregnancy and barriers to more effective contraceptive
use. This 23-page report identifies a set of concrete action steps that the NC/ARHP can work on to help
prevent unintended pregnancy.
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That's What He Said: What Guys Think About Sex, Love, Contraception, and Relationships (2010)
To date, much of the research on teen and unplanned pregnancy—its causes and remedies—has focused on girls and women. But the nearly 1.5 million teen girls and single women in their early 20s who find themselves unintentionally pregnant every year don’t get there by themselves. The National Campaign partnered with Seventeen magazine to better understand what guys think about these issues.
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Unlocking the Contraception Conundrum: Reducing Unplanned Pregnancies in Emerging Adulthood (2009)
by James Jaccard, Ph.D.
This 230-page report provides a detailed summary of what is known from scientific literature about contraceptive use among young adults in the United States. The publication explores such topics as the theoretical framework for analyzing contraceptive behavior, switching between methods of contraception, and program design. Dr. Jaccard also makes specific recommendations about policy and practice.
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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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Effective Program Research
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 - Stand Alone Summary (2007)
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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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En Español
Consejos a los padres: Para prevenir el embarazo en la adolescencia (2000)
Consejos a los padres para ayudara sus hijos evitar el embarazo en la adolescencia. Estos consejos fueron creados específicamente para padres latinos.
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El poder de los padres: Lo que los padres deben saber y hacer para ayudar prevenir el embarazo en los adolescentes (2003)
Aunque puede ser difícil de creer, los padres ejercen una influencia muy importante sobre sus hijos, especialmente cuando se trata de prevenir el embarazo. El Poder de los padres ofrece buenas noticias a los padres y a las personas que cuidan o trabajan con jóvenes, o que hacen estudios sobre ellos. Recopila mucho de lo que se sabe sobre las influencias paternales y ofrece a los padres consejos prácticos para ayudar a sus hijos a posponer la actividad sexual y evitar el embarazo en la adolescencia. El mensaje sencillo y convincente de El Poder de los padres es que las familias importan mucho. (Disponible en inglés como Parent Power.)
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Fe, esperanza y amor: Cómo pueden las comunidades religiosas latinas ayudar prevenir el embarazo entre los adolescentes (2005)
Creada en colaboración con un grupo distinguido de asesores, esta guía provee a los líderes espirituales que sirven a las familias latinas ideas para ayudar a los jóvenes evitar el embarazo y la paternidad en la adolescencia. (Disponible en inglés como Faith, Hope, and Love: How Latino Faith Communities Can Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy.)
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Los jóvenes responden: Diez cosas que desean que los adultos sepan sobre el embarazo en la adolescencia (2002)
Este recurso contesta la pregunta: Si pudieras ofrecer a tus padres y a otros adultos consejos sobre cómo ayudarte a tí y a tus amigos evitar el embarazo, ¿cuáles serían? Presentado como 12 consejos, Los jóvenes responden deja en claro que los jóvenes sí quieren escuchar de sus padres sobre el sexo, el amor, las relaciones, y los valores, aún si no siempre demuestren su interés. (Disponible en inglés como Talking Back.)
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Las voces que se hicieron oír: Adultos y adolescentes latinos hablan sobre el embarazo en la adolescencia (2007)
Con el fin de conocer más las actitudes y creencias de los adultos y adolescentes latinos, la Campaña Nacional encargó la primera encuesta de latinos. Las voces es un informe completo de lo que piensan los adultos y los adolescentes latinos sobre el embarazo en su comunidad. Este informe es complementario a With One Voice, una encuesta entre el público estadounidense en general. (Disponible en inglés como Voices Heard.)
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Nueve consejos para ayudar a lideres espirituales (1998)
Escrito bajo la orientación de la Comisión de Religión y Principios Públicos de la Campaña Nacional, compuesta de líderes espirituales y seculares, este folleto presenta consejos prácticos para ayudar a los líderes espirituales y sus comunidades ayudar a los jóvenes evitar el embarazo en la adolescencia. (Disponible en inglés como Nine Tips for Faith Leaders.)
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Un puente entre dos mundos (2006)
Aunque las tasas de embarazo y natalidad entre las adolescentes latinas han bajado en los últimos diez años, han declinado a un ritmo mucho más lento que en otros grupos raciales o étnicos de EE.UU. Con esta publicación, esperamos brindar más información e ideas a los diversos programas comunitarios que trabajan directamente con la juventud latina. Esta publicación ofrece: datos demográficos; una perspectiva general de los programas de prevención que han mostrado su eficacia con latinos; conocimientos clave desde el campo; y opiniones de los mismos adolescentes latinos. (Disponible en inglés como Bridging Two Worlds.)
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Faith and Religion
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 new 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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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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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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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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Focus Groups
Briefly - Focus Group Findings: What 20-Somethings Are Saying About Pregnancy, Sex, and Childbearing
Here are some toplines from 16 separate focus groups conducted with women and men in their
twenties regarding unplanned pregnancy and related issues. The National Campaign remains committed
to learning more about one of our primary target audiences and will conduct
additional focus groups in the weeks and months ahead.
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Del corazón de los jóvenes:
What Latino teens are saying
about love and relationships
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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Foster Care
For more information on Foster Care, please visit the Campaign's Foster Care special focus section.
Critical Judgment: How Juvenile and Family Court Judges Can Help Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (2009)
The National Campaign and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) have joined forces to help address teen pregnancy and unplanned pregnancy among single, young adults in Juvenile and Family Courts. This publication provides the results of a survey of NCJFCJ members on teen and unplanned pregnancy and related issues as well as a summary of focus groups held with Juvenile and Family Court judges, a detailed case study of how one Miami judge deals with teen and unplanned pregnancy, and a brief look at efforts from other localities.
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Fostering Hope: Preventing Teen Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care (2005)
This 28-page report developed with UCAN provides (1) quantitative research on the high rates of teen pregnancy among foster care youth, (2) important new qualitative research presenting findings from Chicago-area focus groups in which foster care youth (some who are already teen parents) and foster parents were asked about their perspective on teen pregnancy, and (3) results of an online survey of Chicago-area child welfare service providers.
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It's Your Call: Make the Right Decision for You (2010)
This brochure is for youth in foster care and it is designed to help you think carefully about sex, health, and relationships. It provides resources that will give you support and information that will help you when making important decisions about your life.
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Our Story, Our Words: Youth Speak Out on Sex, Love, and Teen Pregnancy (2007)
Teens get lots of advice from adults, but they usually aren't asked to offer their own. That's why The National Campaign asked teens growing up in foster care to tell us what they wanted to know about teen pregnancy prevention and what advice they would give to their peers. This handy, magazine-style brochure tells what teens have to say in their own words.
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Ten Tips for Foster Parents (2006)
Youth in foster care are at significant risk for teen pregnancy. This brief, user-friendly guide offers some ideas to help foster parents strengthen their relationships with foster youth and how best to communicate about sex, love, and relationships. It reflects input from foster parents as well as practitioners who work with them.
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Fun Stuff
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Funding
Ready Resources I: Investing Welfare Funds in Teen Pregnancy Prevention (2000)
This report makes the argument for teen pregnancy prevention as a critical strategy for reducing child poverty and further reducing the welfare rolls. It offers practical guidance on how states and communities can use available Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) money to fund traditionally cash-strapped initiatives to prevent teen pregnancy - illustrated by compelling and concrete examples from a few states. Based in part on a meeting cosponsored by The National Campaign, the Center for Law and Social Policy, the American Public Human Services Association, and the Welfare Information Network, this report includes a chapter by National Campaign President Isabel V. Sawhill.
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Ready Resources II: Promising Partnerships Between Teen Pregnancy Prevention and the Workforce Investment Act (2002)
This report is the second in a series of publications the Campaign has developed on programs and funding sources outside the traditional realm of teen pregnancy prevention. This report provides an overview of why WIA is an important potential partner in teen pregnancy prevention, spotlights examples of collaborative efforts, and offers tips for those interested in undertaking similar initiatives.
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Girls/Young Women
Good-Bye to Girlhood: What's Troubling Girls and What We Can Do About It (1999)
This report, based in part on a roundtable meeting co-sponsored by the Family Impact Seminar and The National Campaign, discusses how the school, media, physical and cultural environments that girls live in affect teen pregnancy, and how prevention efforts can work within this "culture of girlhood."
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Hispanic Community
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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Del corazón de los jóvenes:
What Latino teens are saying
about love and relationships
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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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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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 new 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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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 new pamphlet created by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy in partnership with the Pathways/Senderos Center, a teen pregnancy prevention programs based in New Britain, Connecticut---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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Toward a Common Future: Latino Teens and Adults Speak Out About Teen Pregnancy (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 (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 new 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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Marriage and Healthy Relationships
Del corazón de los jóvenes:
What Latino teens are saying
about love and relationships
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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Kiss and Tell: What Teens Say About Love, Trust, and Other Relationship Stuff (2007)
Teens tend to get advice on all kinds of issues from parents,teachers, and other adults but rarely are young people themselves asked to describe their own thoughts and beliefs. We hope to balance the equation just a bit with Kiss and Tell, a snapshot of what teens are thinking about love and relationships. This brochure is a compilation of findings taken from a national survey of young people, key themes and quotes that emerged from a survey conducted on The National Campaign website, and from focus group research conducted in 2007 throughout the United States.
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Making a Love Connection: Teen Relationships, Pregnancy, and Marriage (2006)
by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and Marline Pearson
This report makes a compelling case for decreasing teen pregnancy as one means to increase the proportion of children who grow up in healthy, married families. Discusses the increasingly prolonged passage from adolescence to adulthood and the extent to which young people are bombarded by sexual messages and note that many young people are in the dark about the economic and social benefits of a low-conflict and long-lasting marriage for men, women, and children. Whitehead and Pearson describe what they call the “success sequence”—the optimal timing of sex, marriage, and parenthood. They also outline ways to help teens develop positive expectations for their current and future relationships.
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Relationship Redux: Tips and Scripts for Talking to Your Kids About Relationships (2009)
Let’s face it, having meaningful conversations with your children about
relationships is not for the faint of heart. This short publication
provides some thoughts on what to say to your children about relationships
and underscores why it is so important to discuss the topic. We
hope that it provides parents with encouragement to get the relationship conversations started. Right away.
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Media
Does Watching Sex on Television Predict Teen Pregnancy? Findings From a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (2008)*
An important study from the Rand Corportation is the first to directly link sexual content on TV to the likelihood of teens getting pregnant or causing a pregnancy. Primary finding from the study published in the journal Pediatrics? Teens who are drowining in sex-saturated TV are twice as likely as their peers who watch little sexy stuff on TV to get pregnant or cause a pregnancy by age 16. So, will turning off the TV prevent teen pregnancy?
*this report was written and published by the Rand Corporation; The National Campaign did not contribute in any way
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Managing the Media Monster: The Influence of Media (From Television to Text Messages) on Teen Sexual Behavior and Attitudes
The goal of this report is to inform practitioners and program providers about what the most up-to-date research says about teens and media influence. Specifically, this publication examines in detail how the media influences - in positive and negative ways - teen sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. Importantly, the report also offers practical suggestions for how those working with youth can use the media to reach young people and provides suggestions on how best to capitalize on the exploding world of digital media.
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Parents
Families Matter: A Research Synthesis of Family Influences on Adolescent Pregnancy (1998)
by Brent C. Miller, Ph.D.
This report synthesizes research on the relationship between adult/parent actions and sexual risk-taking among teenagers and is accompanied by some new data on what parents actually do with their kids in the area of communication about sexuality and related issues.
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Del corazón de los jóvenes:
What Latino teens are saying
about love and relationships
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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Kiss and Tell: What Teens Say About Love, Trust, and Other Relationship Stuff (2007)
Teens tend to get advice on all kinds of issues from parents,teachers, and other adults but rarely are young people themselves asked to describe their own thoughts and beliefs. We hope to balance the equation just a bit with Kiss and Tell, a snapshot of what teens are thinking about love and relationships. This brochure is a compilation of findings taken from a national survey of young people, key themes and quotes that emerged from a survey conducted on The National Campaign website, and from focus group research conducted in 2007 throughout the United States.
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Our Story, Our Words: Youth Speak Out on Sex, Love, and Teen Pregnancy (2007)
Teens get lots of advice from adults, but they usually aren't asked to offer their own. That's why The National Campaign asked teens growing up in foster care to tell us what they wanted to know about teen pregnancy prevention and what advice they would give to their peers. This handy, magazine-style brochure tells what teens have to say in their own words.
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Parent Power: What Parents Need to Know and Do to Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2001)
Whether they believe it or not, parents have a very important influence on whether their teenagers become pregnant or cause a pregnancy. Parent Power offers good news for parents and those who work with, care for, and write about, young people. It compiles much of what is known about parental influences and offers parents practical things they can do to help their children delay sexual activity and avoid teen pregnancy. The simple and compelling message of Parent Power is that families matter. A lot. (Available in Spanish as, El poder de los padres: Lo que los padres deben saber y hacer para ayudar a prevenir el embarazo en los adolescents.)
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Parents Matter: Tips for Raising Teens (2000)
A joint project of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the National Campaign Against Youth Violence, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Parents Matter makes clear that whether you're concerned about drinking, drugs, violence, trouble in school, smoking, or sex (or all of the above), the best advice for parents is the same: stay closely connect to your teenage sons and daughters.
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Relationship Redux: Tips and Scripts for Talking to Your Kids About Relationships (2009)
Let’s face it, having meaningful conversations with your children about
relationships is not for the faint of heart. This short publication
provides some thoughts on what to say to your children about relationships
and underscores why it is so important to discuss the topic. We
hope that it provides parents with encouragement to get the relationship conversations started. Right away.
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Snapshots from the Front Line II: Lessons From Programs That Involve Parents and Other Adults in Prevention 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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Talking Back: Ten Things Teens Want Adults to Know About Teen Pregnancy (2010)
For 15 years now The National Campaign has asked teens from all over the country a fairly simple question: If you could give your parents or other important adults advice about how to help you and your friends avoid pregnancy, what would it be? Here are the answers we have heard most often. Redesigned in 2010, Talking Back now includes tips on sexting and dating violence. (Available in Spanish as Los Jóvenes Responden: Diez Cosas Que Desean Que Los Adultos Sepan Sobre El Embarazo En La Adolescenci.)
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Ten Tips for Foster Parents (2006)
Youth in foster care are at significant risk for teen pregnancy. This brief, user-friendly guide offers some ideas to help foster parents strengthen their relationships with foster youth and how best to communicate about sex, love, and relationships. It reflects input from foster parents as well as practitioners who work with them.
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Ten Tips for Parents To Help Their Children Avoid Teen Pregnancy (2008)
Revised in 2008, this research-based list of practical tips is designed to help parents and adults help the young people in their lives avoid pregnancy and pass safely through adolescence.
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Terms of Engagement: How to Involve Parents in Programs to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2007)
This publication offers practical advice on how to involve parents in programs to prevent teen pregnancy.
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Polling
Are Peers Getting a Bad Rap? (1999)
Results from a public opinion poll conducted in 1999 by International Communications Research and commissioned by The National Campaign.
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The Cautious Generation? Teens Tell Us About Sex, Virginity, and "The Talk" (2000)
Results from a public opinion poll conducted in 2000 by International Communications Research and commissioned by The National Campaign.
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Del corazón de los jóvenes:
What Latino teens are saying
about love and relationships
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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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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Kiss and Tell: What Teens Say About Love, Trust, and Other Relationship Stuff (2007)
Teens tend to get advice on all kinds of issues from parents,teachers, and other adults but rarely are young people themselves asked to describe their own thoughts and beliefs. We hope to balance the equation just a bit with Kiss and Tell, a snapshot of what teens are thinking about love and relationships. This brochure is a compilation of findings taken from a national survey of young people, key themes and quotes that emerged from a survey conducted on The National Campaign website, and from focus group research conducted in 2007 throughout the United States.
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Magical Thinking: Young Adults’ Attitudes and Beliefs About Sex, Contraception, and Unplanned Pregnancy - Results from a Public Opinion Survey (2009)
Given the high rate of unplanned pregnancy among young adults, The National Campaign and Self magazine are pleased to present the results of a public opinion survey of young adults (ages 18-29) on relationships, sex, fertility, contraception, and unplanned pregnancy. It is our fondest hope that the results presented here will shed some light on the attitudes young adults have toward these important topics.
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Not Just Another Thing to Do: Teens Tell Us About Sex, Regret, and the Influence of their Parents (2000)
The poll highlights teens' attitudes on regret about having sex too early, where teens get their information about sex, and who influences their sexual decision making.
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That's What He Said: What Guys Think About Sex, Love, Contraception, and Relationships (2010)
To date, much of the research on teen and unplanned pregnancy—its causes and remedies—has focused on girls and women. But the nearly 1.5 million teen girls and single women in their early 20s who find themselves unintentionally pregnant every year don’t get there by themselves. The National Campaign partnered with Seventeen magazine to better understand what guys think about these issues.
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Toward a Common Future: Latino Teens and Adults Speak Out About Teen Pregnancy (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 (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 new summary analysis prepared by The National Campaign.
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With One Voice: America’s Adults and Teens Sound Off About Teen Pregnancy 2010
An semi-annual nationally-representative survey of adults and teens developed, commissioned, and released by The National Campaign.
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With One Voice 2001-2009
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Replication
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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States and Communities
By the Numbers: the Public Costs of Teen Childbearing (2006)
by Saul Hoffman, Ph.D.
Teen childbearing in the United States costs taxpayers (federal, state, and local) at least $9.1 billion. Most of the costs of teen childbearing are associated with negative consequences for the children of teen mothers, including increased costs for health care, foster care, and incarceration.
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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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Get Organized: A Guide to Preventing Teen Pregnancy (1999)
The National Campaign, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is pleased to offer Get Organized: A Guide to Preventing Teen Pregnancy, a practical manual for people who are interested in taking action to prevent teen pregnancy in their communities. The three-volume, 17-chapter publication covers a lot of ground - from strategies for involving boys and men and for reaching out to religious leaders to practical advice about how to raise money and to conduct program evaluation. Yet it remains easy to read and simple to use, with many checklists and examples from promising programs around the country.
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Getting Started at Community Colleges: Reducing Unplanned Pregnancy and Strengthening Academic Achievement (2009)
by Mary Jackseit
Even if preventing unplanned pregnancy has not been on your school’s radar screen, we encourage community colleges to start directly addressing unplanned pregnancy and building knowledge, experience, and lessons that will help advance this work. This guide takes community college practitioners through 10 key steps for starting an effective unplanned pregnancy prevention program in their school.
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Snapshots from the Front Line: Lessons About Teen Pregnancy Prevention From States and Communities (1997)
The 10 most important things The National Campaign has learned from its first year of visits to states and local communities. Includes the "agree to disagree" Tillamook, Oregon model and interesting new male involvement initiatives.
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Snapshots from the Front Line II: Lessons From Programs That Involve Parents and Other Adults in Prevention 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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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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Sustaining Progress
Halfway There
On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, The National Campaign warns against complacency in the wake of declining rates of teen pregnancy. It challenges the nation to move beyond traditional disagreements and think about this issue in new ways. It also offers specific recommendations to parents, the media, and policymakers about what the Campaign thinks it will take to further reduce rates of teen pregnancy. Scattered throughout the paper are the intriguing results of a new nationally-representative survey of adults and teens.
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What's It Going to Take?
This full-length research brief and summary publication reports findings from a research conference hosted by The National Campaign in collaboration with the Division of Reproductive Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at NIH.
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Teen Pregnancy Costs and Connections to Other Issues
By the Numbers: the Public Costs of Teen Childbearing (2006)
by Saul Hoffman, Ph.D.
Teen childbearing in the United States costs taxpayers (federal, state, and local) at least $9.1 billion. Most of the costs of teen childbearing are associated with negative consequences for the children of teen mothers, including increased costs for health care, foster care, and incarceration.
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Why It Matters (2007)
Teen pregnancy is closely linked to a number of other critical issues, including overall child and family well-being. Simply put, if more children in this country were born to parents who are ready and able to care for them, we would see a significant reduction in a host of social problems in the United States, from school failure and crime to child abuse and neglect. This series of fact sheets discusses several common social issues and how they are impacted by teen pregnancy.
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Teens
Del corazón de los jóvenes:
What Latino teens are saying
about love and relationships
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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iPlan: Tips from Teens for Teens about Life, Love, and Not Getting Pregnant (2009)
When it comes to sex, teens get tons of advice from adults, but they aren’t often asked to offer their own. Crazy right? So we asked teens from all over the country what they thought about relationships, sex, and pregnancy. Here are the 13 answers and opinions that we heard most often.
This product replaces the English version of Thinking About the Right-Now: What Teens Want Other Teens to Know About Preventing Pregnancy (the Spanish version is available here in the original format)
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Kiss and Tell: What Teens Say About Love, Trust, and Other Relationship Stuff (2007)
Teens tend to get advice on all kinds of issues from parents,teachers, and other adults but rarely are young people themselves asked to describe their own thoughts and beliefs. We hope to balance the equation just a bit with Kiss and Tell, a snapshot of what teens are thinking about love and relationships. This brochure is a compilation of findings taken from a national survey of young people, key themes and quotes that emerged from a survey conducted on The National Campaign website, and from focus group research conducted in 2007 throughout the United States.
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The Odyssey Years: Preventing Teen Pregnancy Among Older Teens (2010)
Pregnancy rates for older teens (those 18-19) are more than three times the rate for younger teens. In fact, about two-thirds of all teen pregnancies and births are to older teens. Why might this be and what can be done to help? A new report from The National Campaign explores these two questions in detail by providing data on older teens, exposing some commonly-held myths about older teens and how to reach them, and provides some real-world examples of how groups are reaching older teens.
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Our Story, Our Words: Youth Speak Out on Sex, Love, and Teen Pregnancy (2007)
Teens get lots of advice from adults, but they usually aren't asked to offer their own. That's why The National Campaign asked teens growing up in foster care to tell us what they wanted to know about teen pregnancy prevention and what advice they would give to their peers. This handy, magazine-style brochure tells what teens have to say in their own words.
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Relationship Redux: Tips and Scripts for Talking to Your Kids About Relationships (2009)
Let’s face it, having meaningful conversations with your children about
relationships is not for the faint of heart. This short publication
provides some thoughts on what to say to your children about relationships
and underscores why it is so important to discuss the topic. We
hope that it provides parents with encouragement to get the relationship conversations started. Right away.
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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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Teen Births: Examining the Recent Increase (2008)
by Kristin Anderson Moore, Ph.D.
This paper reports on that conversation
and considers available evidence on whether
and why the teen birth rate rose between 2005 and
2006. It also raises data and research issues that
should be explored to sharpen the discussion and
strengthen public and private prevention efforts.
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That's What He Said: What Guys Think About Sex, Love, Contraception, and Relationships (2010)
To date, much of the research on teen and unplanned pregnancy—its causes and remedies—has focused on girls and women. But the nearly 1.5 million teen girls and single women in their early 20s who find themselves unintentionally pregnant every year don’t get there by themselves. The National Campaign partnered with Seventeen magazine to better understand what guys think about these issues.
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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 new pamphlet created by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy in partnership with the Pathways/Senderos Center, a teen pregnancy prevention programs based in New Britain, Connecticut---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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Unplanned Pregnancy
The Changing Twenties (2008)
The Changing Twenties presents what William A. Galston, Ph.D.—National Campaign Board member, Brookings Institution scholar, and one of the nation’s preeminent social scientists—offered at the event on this most interesting issue.
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The Consequences of Unintended Pregnancy
This white paper provides a critical review of the current research literature on the consequences of unintended childbearing for families and children.
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The DCR Report (2008)
The DCR Report (Data, Charts, Research) provides in depth answers to some critical questions about unplanned pregnancy. At present, the report is divided into three sections, unplanned pregnancy among all women, unplanned pregnancy among unmarried 20-somethings, and resolution of unplanned pregnancy. New sections with be added to the DCR Report from time to time and readers are encouraged to check back often on this ever-evolving set of data
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Getting Started at Community Colleges: Reducing Unplanned Pregnancy and Strengthening Academic Achievement (2009)
by Mary Jackseit
Even if preventing unplanned pregnancy has not been on your school’s radar screen, we encourage community colleges to start directly addressing unplanned pregnancy and building knowledge, experience, and lessons that will help advance this work. This guide takes community college practitioners through 10 key steps for starting an effective unplanned pregnancy prevention program in their school.
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Magical Thinking: Young Adults’ Attitudes and Beliefs About Sex, Contraception, and Unplanned Pregnancy - Results from a Public Opinion Survey (2009)
Given the high rate of unplanned pregnancy among young adults, The National Campaign and Self magazine are pleased to present the results of a public opinion survey of young adults (ages 18-29) on relationships, sex, fertility, contraception, and unplanned pregnancy. It is our fondest hope that the results presented here will shed some light on the attitudes young adults have toward these important topics.
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Unlocking the Contraception Conundrum: Reducing Unplanned Pregnancies in Emerging Adulthood (2009)
by James Jaccard, Ph.D.
This 230-page report provides a detailed summary of what is known from scientific literature about contraceptive use among young adults in the United States. The publication explores such topics as the theoretical framework for analyzing contraceptive behavior, switching between methods of contraception, and program design. Dr. Jaccard also makes specific recommendations about policy and practice.
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What 20-Somethings Are Saying About Pregnancy, Sex, and Childbearing: Findings From Focus Groups (2008)
Here are some toplines from 16 separate focus groups conducted with women and men in their
twenties regarding unplanned pregnancy and related issues. The National Campaign remains committed to learning more about one of our primary target audiences and will conduct additional focus groups in the weeks and months ahead.
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