authorize a national multimedia campaign to educate and increase public awareness about
teenage pregnancy prevention and healthy relationships in minority communities
Additionally, the bill appears to dramatically decrease funding for the evidence - based Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program that has made strides in
teenage pregnancy prevention across the Nation.
Not exact matches
The programme is aimed at 14 year olds upwards and meets the requirements of the
teenage pregnancy strategy as both a
prevention and support initiative.
Section 1003.42 (2)(n), Florida State Statutes Required Instruction - Comprehensive health education that addresses concepts of community health; consumer health; environmental health; family life, including an awareness of the benefits of sexual abstinence as the expected standard and the consequences of
teenage pregnancy; mental and emotional health; injury
prevention and safety; Internet safety; nutrition; personal health;
prevention and control of disease; and substance use and abuse.
The goal of support programs for pregnant and parenting teenagers, put simply, is to buck these trends: generally speaking, programs that provide support for
teenage parents seek to reduce their dropout rates, including through the
prevention of further unplanned
pregnancies (
teenage parents of more than one child are even more likely to drop out than those with only one).
The vast majority of
teenage pregnancies are unplanned, and with comprehensive knowledge about
pregnancy prevention, we can empower young people to have control over the order of events that make up their lives.
If passed, the elimination of the Teen
Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, a key part of the state's teen pregnancy prevention efforts since 1994, will deprive teenage girls in the most high - risk areas of the state of the critical services and education necessary to make responsible and healthy life d
Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, a key part of the state's teen
pregnancy prevention efforts since 1994, will deprive teenage girls in the most high - risk areas of the state of the critical services and education necessary to make responsible and healthy life d
pregnancy prevention efforts since 1994, will deprive
teenage girls in the most high - risk areas of the state of the critical services and education necessary to make responsible and healthy life decisions.