Related Publications, Websites:
1. SIECUS: Annotated Bibliography: Preventing STDs, HIV, and Teen Pregnancy
http://www.siecus.org/pubs/biblio/bibs0023.html
2. Advocates for Youth: From Research to Practice
The Sexual Health of Latina Adolescents—Focus on Assets
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/frtp/latina.htm
3. Adolescent Reproductive Health: Promoting Science Based Approaches
Definitions of Science-Based Approach, Science-Based Program, and Promising Program Science-Based Approach
http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/AdolescentReproHealth/DefineScienceApproach.htm
4. Despite recent declines in teen pregnancy, US teen birth and sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates remain among the highest in the western world. Given the need to focus limited prevention resources on effective programs, Advocates for Youth undertook an exhaustive review of existing research to compile a list of the programs proven effective by rigorous evaluation.
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/ScienceSuccessES.htm
Organizations
1. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy :
Founded in February 1996, the National Campaign is a nonprofit, nonpartisan initiative supported almost entirely by private donations. Its mission is to improve the well-being of children, youth, and families by reducing teen pregnancy. The Campaign's goal is to reduce the teen pregnancy rate by one-third between 1996 and 2005.
High rates of teen pregnancy burden not only teenagers but also their children, families, and communities, while imposing large costs on taxpayers as well. To reduce teenage pregnancy, the Campaign provides a national presence and leadership to raise awareness of the issue and to attract new voices and resources to the cause. It provides concrete assistance to those already working in the field. The Campaign also tries to ease the many disagreements that have plagued both national and local efforts to address this problem.
2. Advocates for Youth:
Established in 1980 as the Center for Population Options, Advocates for Youth champions efforts to help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates believes it can best serve the field by boldly advocating for a more positive and realistic approach to adolescent sexual health.
Advocates for Youth envisions a society that views sexuality as normal and healthy and treats young people as a valuable resource.
The core values of Rights, Respect, Responsibility® (3Rs) animate this vision—
RIGHTS: Youth have rights to accurate and complete sexual health information, confidential reproductive and sexual health services, and a secure stake in the future.
RESPECT: Youth deserve respect. Today, young people are largely perceived as part of the problem. Valuing young people means they are part of the solution and are included in developing programs and policies that affect their well-being.
RESPONSIBILITY: Society has the responsibility to provide young people with the tools they need to safeguard their sexual health, and young people have the responsibility to protect themselves from too-early childbearing and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV.
• www.advocatesforyouth.org —resources for professionals and youth
• www.youthresource.com —support for gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender (GLBT) youth
• www.themediaproject.com —information for the entertainment industry
• www.ambientejoven.org —information and community for Latino GLBT youth
• www.mysistahs.org —holistic sexual health resources by and for young women of color
3. Healthy Teen Network:
Healthy Teen Network is a national membership network founded on the belief that youth can make responsible decisions about their sexuality and reproductive health when they have complete, accurate and culturally relevant information, skills, resources and support.
Healthy Teen Network is the only national membership network that serves as a leader, a national voice, and a comprehensive educational resource to professionals working in the area of adolescent reproductive health – specifically teen pregnancy prevention, pregnancy and parenting.
http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/
Secondary Content Areas:
Unintended Pregnancy Resources:
- CDC's Division of Reproductive Health:
http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/UnintendedPregnancy/index.htm - Alan Guttmacher Institute:
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3002498.html -
Depression and Unintended Pregnancy in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: a cohort study:
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/324/7330/151 - Use of Contraception and Use of Family Planning Services in the United States : 1982–2002:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad350FactSheet.pdf - FDA – Protecting Against Unintended Pregnancy: A Guide to Contraceptive Choices:
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1997/397_baby.html\
Preconception Care
“Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health Care --- United States :
A Report of the CDC/ATSDR Preconception Care Work Group and the Select Panel on Preconception Care” http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5506a1.htm
