National Campaign Learning Tour 2007
Fact Sheets
Publications
Other Resources
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Fact Sheets for States and Communities
- State and Local Efforts to Reduce Unplanned Pregnancy Among Adults
- State Legislation to Reduce Teen Pregnancy
- Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy:
Challenges to Systems and Families are Met by State Best Practices in Prevention
Publications
Building the Ideal Community or Youth Program (2000)
This study, based on a survey of 99 professionals, identifies desirable characteristics of community and youth programs.
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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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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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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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Emerging Answers 2007: New Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy - Stand Alone Summary (2007)
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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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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 increasing. 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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What Helps in Providing Contraceptive Services for Teens? (2007)
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 (2006)
This 19-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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Other Resources
State Efforts to Reduce Unplanned Pregnancy
Transcript and downloadable MP3 version of this national conference call.
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APSHA Policy & Practice
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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National Campaign PowerPoint Presentations
These Power Point presentations were prepared on behalf of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Use of any data, graphics, or the Power Point as a whole is permitted, provided that acknowledgement and/or citation of the National Campaign is included where appropriate.
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Setting Teen Pregnancy
Rate Reduction Goals
November 5, 2005
Transcript from an audio 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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Targeted Web Sections
- By the Numbers: the Cost of Teen Childbearing
- Emerging Answers 2007
- Putting What Works to Work
- Ten Tips for Parents
- Why It Matters
- National Campaign Special Focus Section
The National Campaign Foster Care Initiative
With more than a half million children in foster care, these youth are a group at significant risk for pregnancy. This has serious human and financial consequences for teens, their families, and the child welfare system. However, teens in foster care have been largely overlooked in terms of teen pregnancy prevention and little is known about their needs.
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