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On the Web
- National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy - NCPTP seeks to improve the well-being of children, youth, and families by reducing pregnancy among teenagers by supporting appropriate values and actions.
- SIECUS Adolescent Pregnancy - Sexuality Information and Education Counsel of the U.S. Focuses on identifying teens at risk and preventing behaviors that lead to unintended pregnancy.
- Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention - ReCAPP provides a comprehensive approach to teen pregnancy. Programs include: multi-media public awareness, parent and community education, peer education, professional training, and supportive health services.
- Reduce Adolescent Pregnancy Partnership Coalition - Program for teen males regarding pregnancy prevention. Applies the developmental asset model.
- Best Practices in Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention - Information on program models, cultural competency, staff development, and evaluation as applied to prevention programs.
- Youth Connections - Provides information, expertise and resources with the intent of preventing and breaking the cycle of teen pregnancy.
- The UP Connection, Inc. - Teen pregnancy prevention programs with education, referral, support services, and a group home for pregnant and parenting teenagers. Located in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
- Plain Talk - Approaches prevention of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases through developing and enhancing parent-child communication.
- Minnesota Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention and Parenting - State group offers news, conferences, and workshops to anyone concerned about teen pregnancy prevention.
- The Prevention Researcher Online - A quarterly newsletter about At-Risk Youth. Contains abstracts and references as well as full length articles on At-Risk Youth issues such as teen violence, teen pregnancy prevention, substance abuse, dating violence and eating disorders.
Wikipedia Articles
- DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy - DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy was founded in 1999 in Washington, DC. Its mission is to improve life and health for adolescents through advocacy and by cutting the teen pregnancy rate in half.
- Global incidence of teenage pregnancy - Industrialized and developing countries have distinctly different rates of teenage pregnancy. In developed regions, such as North America and Western Europe, teen parents tend to be unmarried and adolescent pregnancy is seen as a social issue.
- The First Part Last - The First Part Last, a young adult novel by Angela Johnson, deals with the subject of teen pregnancy. The story is told from the father's perspective, which sets it apart from most books on teen pregnancy.
- Thursday's Child (charity) - Thursday's Child is an international children's charity, founded in 1982, which assists at-risk children. Its toll-free 24-hour hotline, 1 (800) USA-KIDS, deals with such issues as child abuse, runaways, missing and exploited children, teens who are anorexic or bulimic or who cut, teen pregnancy date rape and teen suicide.
- Free Teens - Free Teens is a religiously motivated program to promote sexual abstinence before marriage. It describes itself as a "reality-based, abstinence-centered HIV/AIDS, STD, and pregnancy prevention program".