Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Abstinence Education

Date: 04/17/2009 | Time: 12:21 | Size: 11.3 MB Three young men and a youth development expert advise abstinence educators on how to best reach teen guys with the abstinence message.   MS. DEQUENDRE BERTRAND:  Welcome to the Positive Youth Development podcast series by the Family and Youth Services Bureau within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The series is...
Cell phones, social networking websites and other new forms of media are indispensable communication tools for many young people. Recent research delves into how young people use digital devices, and the implications these trends have for adolescent health.   (Publications discussed here do not necessarily reflect the views of NCFY, FYSB or the Administration for Children and Families.)...
Though national teen pregnancy and birth rates have fallen over the last 20 years, the United States still has some of the highest rates among industrialized nations.
Staff members had no clue what to expect when the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina launched its BrdsNBz project, which invites youth to ask questions about sexual health via anonymous text messages, in February of last year. Because more than three-quarters of U.S.
Two team members from Jacksonville’s Project S.O.S. program describe how their original play, "Live Like it Counts," has helped convey the benefits of healthy youth lifestyles and sexual abstinence to a larger audience. Time: 8:21 | Size: 7.6 MB | Transcript
Time: 8:21 | Size: 7.6 MB Two team members from Jacksonville’s Project S.O.S. program describe how their original play, "Live Like it Counts," has helped convey the benefits of healthy youth lifestyles and sexual abstinence to a larger audience.   KEY: FS - Female Speaker; MS - Male Speaker
The latest research on preventing pregnancy among adolescents examines trends in the teen birth rate, suggests ways to involve the community in measuring those trends and other risky behaviors and looks at effective methods for providing reproductive health services to young people. (Publications discussed here do not necessarily reflect the views of NCFY, the Family and Youth Services Bureau,...
Three young men and a youth development expert advise abstinence educators on how to best reach teen guys with the abstinence message. Time: 12:21 | Size: 11.3 MB | Transcript
From organizing fundraisers to cleaning up parks, groups of young people in every city and town across the country are engaged in both national and grassroots efforts to enrich their neighborhoods, their schools and their futures. Though they may not know it, these youth embody a philosophy embraced by many community members and policymakers: Positive Youth Development.
Date: 7/30/2007 | Time: 00:07:18 | Size: 4.1 MB NCFY staff member Adrian Burnim talks to a young woman who says abstinence is more than a decision not to have sex. It's a way of valuing herself. [music]
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