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Putting What Works to Work

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.

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: Factors Affecting Teen Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, Childbearing, and Sexually Transmitted Disease: Which Are Important? Which Can You Change? - Full Report
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.

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.

What Works: Curriculum-Based Programs that Prevent Teen Pregnancy
What curriculum-based programs work to prevent teen pregnancy?What Works is a pamphlet from The National Campaign that examines what is known about carefully evaluated interventions that help prevent teen pregnancy.