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Fact Sheets for States and Communities

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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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Emerging Answers 2007: New Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy - Stand Alone Summary (2007)
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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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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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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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Other Resources

Preventing Pregnancy Among Older Teens
This brief from the National Conference of State Legislatures gives background on teen pregnancy among older teens, ways to reach them, and steps for state and federal governments to take action.
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Taking Responsibility: New Federal Money to Prevent Teen Pregnancies Gives State Some Options
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) highlights new federal funding available to states to address teen pregnancy in the February 2011 issue of State Legislatures magazine.
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Promoting Healthy Pregnancies and Babies in West Virginia Through Home Visitation Programs
West Virginia Perinatal Parnership
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Research from Ibis Reproductive Health
Ibis Reproductive Health and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Family Planning Program collaborated to assess young adults’ access to contraception in the wake of Massachusetts Health Care Reform.  The research project includes a review of young adult-targeted health plans and focus group discussions with women and men ages 18 to 26.  Research yielded that many young adults were unclear about the various provisions of the new health care reform law and the full range of contraceptive options available to them.  In addition, results demonstrate that the young adult-targeted health plans may not provide a full range of contraceptive services for this population.  Summaries and full reports are available here:

  • Young adults & the coverage of contraceptive services in the wake of health care reform: Results from an assessment of young adult-targeted health plans in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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    Full Report
  • Young adults, health insurance & access to contraception in the wake of health care reform: Results from focus group discussions in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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    Full Report

Medicaid's Important Role in Pregnancy Prevention and Planning
(October 2008)
APSHA Policy & Practice
This journal article, written by National Campaign staffer Jennifer Drake, discusses Medicaid's important role in pregnancy prevention and planning.
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State Efforts to Reduce Unplanned Pregnancy
(June 23, 2008)
Transcript and downloadable MP3 version of this national conference call.
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Making Things Happen
(March 2008)
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

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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