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Briefly - Get Organized: Starting a Coalition or Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2010)
If your state or community is thinking about organizing a group to address teen pregnancy, here are some questions to consider and tips to help you get going. They are adapted from a multi-chapter online manual published in 1999 titled, Get Organized: A Guide to Preventing Teen Pregnancy.
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Briefly - Policy Brief: Opportunities for States to Address Teen Pregnancy Through New Federal Funding Streams (2010)
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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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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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Counting It Up (2011)
Research closely links teen parenthood to many negative consequences for mothers, fathers, children, and society. Counting It Up documents the public costs of teen childbearing at both the national and state level.
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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.
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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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What Helps in Providing Contraceptive Services for Teens?
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
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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