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Putting What Works to Work

A Good Time: After-School Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy
Produced in partnership with Child Trends, A Good Time is a new report that provides detailed descriptions of those after-school programs that have been shown through careful research to have a positive impact on adolescent behavior.

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Childhood Sexual Abuse and Teen Pregnancy
This paper, produced in partnership with Child Trends, provides and exhaustive review of recent literature on the link between childhood sexual abuse and teen pregnancy and related sexual behaviors.

It's a Guy Thing: Boys, Young Men, and Pregnancy Prevention
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.

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Making the List: Understanding, Selecting, and Replicating Effective Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs
Making the List 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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No Time to Waste: Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy Among Middle School-Aged Youth
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
Produced in partnership with Child Trends, Not Yet provides detailed descriptions of prevention programs that have been shown through careful research to have a delayed first sex among teens. The publication provides detailed descriptions of program curriculum, costs, and evaluation results.

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Playing Catch-Up: How Children Born to Teen Mothers Fare
Produced in partnership with Child Trends, Playing Catch-Up, describes how 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. Playing Catch-Up: How Children Born to Teen Mothers Fare, 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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Sexual Risk and Protective Factors
These papers and tables provide an exhaustive analysis of the more than 400 factors that can effect teen sexual behavior in both the United States and in developing countries.

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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. What Helps 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
What curriculum-based programs work to prevent teen pregnancy? Newly revised in 2008, What Works is a 19-page pamphlet from the National Campaign that examines what is known about carefully evaluated interventions that help prevent teen pregnancy.

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