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Briefly: United Way Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy (2010)
The United Way has a long history of helping children, youth, and families achieve their full potential of being financially stable, independent, and healthy. This fact sheet highlights six examples of local United Ways that have taken on such projects.
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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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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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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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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 Jacksteit
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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Making the List: Understanding, Selecting, and Replicating Effective Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs (2004)
This report helps those working with young people to navigate lists of effective teen pregnancy prevention programs and make informed decisions about how to select the best one(s) for a particular community and population.
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Making Things Happen from APSHA Policy & Practice
March 2008
Written by National Campaign CEO Sarah Brown, this two-page article discusses how preventing unplanned pregnancy makes human service work easier in the long run.
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Medicaid's Important Role in Pregnancy Prevention and Planning from APHSA Policy & Practice
October 2008
This journal article, written by National Campaign staffer Jennifer Drake, discusses Medicaid's important role in pregnancy prevention and planning.
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No Time to Waste: Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy Among Middle School-Aged Youth (2004)
Produced in partnership with Child Trends, No Time to Waste provides detailed descriptions of those programs for middle school-aged youth that have been shown through careful research to have a positive impact on adolescent sexual behavior. The publication provides detailed descriptions of program curriculum, costs, and evaluation results.
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Not Yet: Programs to Delay First Sex Among Teens (2004)
Produced in partnership with Child Trends, Not Yet describes programs that have been proven, through rigorous evaluation, to postpone sexual activity among participants.
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Partners in Progress: The Education Community and Preventing Teen Pregnancy (2001)
Because the relationship between academic failure and teen pregnancy is so strong, and because young people spend so much of their time in school, the education community and the teen pregnancy prevention community should see themselves as natural allies. This document offers simple ideas on ways the education community can help prevent teen pregnancy without sacrificing its core mission of education.
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Progress Pending: How to Sustain and Extend Recent Reductions in Teen Pregnancy Rates (2003)
By Douglas Kirby, Ph.D. and Karen Trocoli, MPH
While this nation as a whole has made significant progress in reducing rates of teen pregnancy and birth, examination of selected states, cities, and groups show instances where teen pregnancy and birth rates are stagnate or even incresing. Progress Pending explores why certain areas and groups continue to have high rates and what can be done to extend successes to these areas. The publication includes a chapter by Douglas Kirby, Ph.D., that explores what we know about the effectiveness of teen pregnancy prevention programs for various groups of teens and what role these programs might have in bringing down stubbornly high rates of teen pregnancy.
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Setting Teen Pregnancy Rate Reduction Goals - a National Conference Call
November 5, 2005
Transcript from an audio conference call.
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State Efforts to Reduce Unplanned Pregnancy - a National Conference Call
June 23, 2008
Transcript and downloadable MP3 version of this national conference call.
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State Goals to Reduce Teen & Unplanned Pregnancy
The National Campaign encouraged states to join us in setting their own ten year goals; this page details the 29 states who responded with goal information to The National Campaign.
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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 (2009)
This 24-page 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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