...Reducing Teen Pregnancy and Promoting Health Equity As part of President Obama's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI), CDC is partnering with the federal Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) to reduce teen pregnancy and address disparities in teen pregnancy and childbirth rates. The OASH's Office of Adolescent Health supports public and private groups to fund evidence-based or innovative teen pregnancy prevention programs that are medically accurate and age-appropriate. TPPI is focused on communities with the highest rates, with an emphasis on reaching African American and Hispanic/Latino youth. To reduce teen pregnancy and childbirth rates, programs will need to use broad strategies designed to reach a majority of youth in a community. They also will need to use more intensive strategies that are tailored to reach youth who are at the highest risk. The goals of the TPPI are to Reduce the rates of teen pregnancy and childbirth in priority populations. Increase the number of youth who have access to evidence-based or evidence-informed programs designed to prevent teen pregnancy. Increase links between teen pregnancy prevention programs and community-based clinical services. Educate stakeholders about evidence-based or evidence-informed strategies designed to reduce teen pregnancy and about the needs and resources of the priority communities. Organizations funded through this partnership will address all of these goals. In 2010, CDC provided 5-year...
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...Title: TEEN PREGNANCY in AMERICA: Who is to BLAME? Teen pregnancy rates dropped downward fast in the 1990s, largely due to increased access to contraceptives (Huffington Post 2010). However, the trend stabilized in the last decade and now there's evidence that teen births are rising again. Data released from the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization that conducts research on sexual and reproductive health, shows that the teen pregnancy rate rose three percent in 2006, the first increase since the late eighty’s. Nationwide, the 2006 teen pregnancy rate was 71.5 pregnancies per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19 (about seven percent of this age group became pregnant). That is an increase from the 2005 rate of 69.5 per 1,000, which was the lowest point in 30 years. The increase was seen in White, Black and Latino teens( document). Many parties surely share the blame for the rise in teen pregnancy. First, the media, there are very few television shows or movies that show the reality. Most movies or television shows have teens engaging in the sexual act with no consequences. Second, according to researches conduct by the Guttmacher Institute a pro-choice organization, the abstinence-only sex education programs which began in the early 2000s, prohibited by law the distribution of contraceptive information. As a result, teens' use of contraceptives declined and pregnancy rate rose. Third, the absent parents; parents today live a busy life. They barely have time to build a relationship...
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...My proposal is to have a program for the prevention of teen pregnancy that targets use and parents on how to talk to their children about sex, pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. This program would be a national program built on the idea that all vulnerable youths will have a knowledgeable to help them make responsible decisions about sexual behavior and stress the importance of parents and Jean communication (Teenagepregancy, 1995). There is also a need for public awareness of what teen pregnancy can cost the community and state. (gcu, library, 1995). Youths that are socioeconomically disadvantage of any race or ethnicity have the highest rate of teen pregnancies and childbirth. In public health teen pregnancy prevention is one of the top priorities of the Center for Disease Control. Program goals are to reduce the rate of pregnancies and birth to the youths, increase you access to evidence-based evidence form programs to prevent teen pregnancy, increase knowledge of links between teen pregnancy prevention programs in community-based clinical services, and to educate communities parents about the relevance of evidence-based evidence informed strategies to reduce teen pregnancy and provide data on the resource. The target areas will be focused on reaching African American and Latino/Hispanic youths aged 15 to 19 years. There will be a communitywide approach to the specified communities, this will include broad-based strategies that will reach a majority of youth in the...
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...1. How do systemic factors affect personal behaviors such as teen pregnancy and substance abuse? Discuss specific systemic factors that are related to disparities in rates of teen pregnancy; also discuss systemic factors related to substance use. Use examples from at least three related chapters/course readings in your response. You may also use data from the PowerPoint slides posted on Blackboard. Structure creates culture. William Julius Wilson points out this by stating that “structure trumps culture” in his book, More Than Just Race. In this quotation, he implies that systemic factors (“structure”) affect personal behaviors (“culture”). Systemic factors refer to the factors that emerge from the social structure and give impact on the social constituents of structure. Because the social constituents should live within the social structure, they obviously are influenced by the systemic factors. Thus, systemic factors have an underlying linkage with personal behaviors. Systemic factors, such as education, poverty, and economic change, strongly influence on an individual’s behaviors such as teen pregnancy and substance abuse. Education, poverty, and economic changes are systemic factors that have created major shifts in general behaviors of teen pregnancy. According to the article “After the Sexual Revolution,” some factors contribute to these shifts: success of abstinent education, positive effect of comprehensive sex education cultural backlash against sexual revolution...
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...Teen pregnancy has become an issue to teen society today. Teen pregnancy has been rising throughout the years, it hit an all time high in the nineties. In nineteen ninety-one one third of young women in the United States were pregnant as teenagers, eighty percent of these pregnancies were unintentional. The decline in teen pregnancy is said to be because of more effective birth control. (Womanshealthchannel.com teen pregnancy overview, consequences of teenage pregnancy) Teenage mothers have a lower income; eighty percent of teen mothers rely on welfare at some point. Teenage mothers are more likely to drop out of school, and more likely to have been or will be alcoholics and substance abuse. Woman who become pregnant as teens will have a more likely chance to have birthing difficulties and difficulties with there children, such as kids to teen mothers are more likely to have social, emotional, and physical problems. Children of teen mothers have an increased risk of being abused and or neglected. (teenage pregnancy and health risks to the baby, womanshealthchannel.com Boys of teen parents are thirteen percent more likely to be incarcerated later in life, and girls born to teen mothers are twenty percent more likely to be teen mothers themselves. (Teenage pregnancy and health and risks to the baby womanshealthchannel.com) (Nolan, Mary in Just the facts about Teenage pregnancy). Babies that are born to teenage mothers have greater risks such as, being born too early, have...
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...Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Dotlyn Robertson NUR/598 July 8, 2013 Pat Jamerson, RN, PhD Abstract The issue of controlling and preventing teenage pregnancy is a major problem in society. Teenage pregnancy is a significant health issue that plagues our nation and communities. Community and public health nurses are faced with the challenge of addressing teen pregnancy, a monumental health issues that affect vulnerable populations in society. Effectiveness of healthcare interventions depends in part, on the approach that is taken in addressing the presenting issues (Shi & Stevens, 2005). Factors that contribute to teenage pregnancy span socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological issues that are perpetrated by individual characteristics (of the teenagers), peers, family members, and the greater society (Maurer & Smith, 2009). Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note that in 2009, more than 500,000 children were born to mothers of ages 15 to 19 years, at a rate of 45.5 per 1000 mothers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010, para. 1). Teenage pregnancy, a public health priority for youths, is a multifaceted health issue that is influenced, in part, by socioeconomic factors such as peer pressure, low income of families, and the media (Maurer & Smith, 2009; The National Campaign, 2010). Likewise, teenage pregnancy also creates socioeconomic and health problems for teenage mothers, teenage fathers, their children, and society...
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...Project Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Abstract The issue of controlling and preventing teenage pregnancy is a major problem in society. Teenage pregnancy is a significant health issue that plagues our nation and communities. Community and public health nurses are faced with the challenge of addressing teen pregnancy, a monumental health issues that affect vulnerable populations in society. Effectiveness of healthcare interventions depends in part, on the approach that is taken in addressing the presenting issues (Shi & Stevens, 2005). Factors that contribute to teenage pregnancy span socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological issues that are perpetrated by individual characteristics (of the teenagers), peers, family members, and the greater society (Maurer & Smith, 2009). Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note that in 2009, more than 500,000 children were born to mothers of ages 15 to 19 years, at a rate of 45.5 per 1000 mothers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010, para. 1). Teenage pregnancy, a public health priority for youths, is a multifaceted health issue that is influenced, in part, by socioeconomic factors such as peer pressure, low income of families, and the media (Maurer & Smith, 2009; The National Campaign, 2010). Likewise, teenage pregnancy also creates socioeconomic and health problems for teenage mothers, teenage fathers, their children, and society. Some of the effects of teenage pregnancy on the...
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...Self-Understanding – The individual’s cognitive representation of the self, the substance and content of self-conceptions. It is a social cognitive construction. (i.e. a 12 year old boy understands that he is a student, football player, family member, and a video game lover) Abstraction – What the person actually is. Idealism – Positive characteristics of one’s self, and/or what they desire to be like. Differentiation – Adolescents are more likely than children to note contextual or situational variations in describing themselves. Adolescents are more likely than children to understand that they possess several different selves, each one varying in some degree according to a specific role or context. The Fluctuating self – The self continues to be characterized by instability until late adolescence or even early adulthood Maladjustment – A strong discrepancy between the real and ideal self Possible Self – Alternate to the idea of maladjustment. What the individual might become, what they want to become, and what they are afraid of becoming. Self-Comparison – Comparison of self to peers. Adolescents are more likely than children to use self-comparison in evaluating themselves; however their willingness to admit that they engage in social comparison for this purpose declines during adolescence because they view these acts as socially undesirable. Self-Consciousness – Adolescent’s friends are often the main source of reflected self-appraisals, the social mirror into...
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...Casey Smith Parenting Stress, Social Support, and Depression for Ethnic Minority Adolescent Mothers: Impact on Child Development Over the years teen pregnancies have seemed to increase higher, but girls of African American and Hispanic/ Latino ethnicities seem to have the highest pregnancy rate. Also African Americans and Hispanic/Latino have higher school dropout and economic disadvantages. Adolescent mothers also seem to have a higher risk of having depression or parental stress, rather then adult mothers. The mother’s depression can affect the child, and the child may be at risk of depression or development delays in life. If the mother seems to be having signs of depression they may not want a lot do with the child, and that could have a severe impact on the child. If the mother is depressed and doesn’t take care of their child properly, the child may have health problems or deal with substance abuse later in life. The purpose of this study was to see if parenting stress and social support impact child development especially in ethic minority populations. If the mothers parenting stress is high they will likely have negative parenting behaviors, which could impact the child and cause them to have depression. The child and mother then have an unhealthy attachment if she shows high levels of parenting stress. According to Spencer (2002) found that adolescent mothers continued to experience high levels of parenting stress 2 years after their infant was born. Since adolescent...
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...TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN AMERICA: AND OTHER RELATED COMPLICATIONS Teenage Pregnancy in America: And Other Related Complications Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenager or underage girl (usually within the ages of 13–19) becoming pregnant. The term in everyday speech usually refers to women who have not reached legal adulthood, which varies across the world, who become pregnant (MedlinePlus 2008). Adolescent mothers are more numerous in western societies and especially in the United States. Today, young people are sexually active at an earlier age compare to the previous generation, and there are several associated consequences. Sexual activity among adolescents is often associated with unprotected sex or use of ineffective methods of contraception. A large proportion of adolescents are suffering from sexual transmitted diseases (STDs) and girls become pregnant and young mothers. Given the increase in teenage pregnancies and the consequences on the quality of life of the young people, an intervention, is needed starting in the middle schools. According to a study done in late 2009 by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), a pro-choice organization, nationwide, teenage pregnancy rate was 71.5 pregnancies per 1,000 women ages 13 to 19 (Huffington Post 2010). Before intervention, however, it is essential to understand the factors underlying the premature and unprotected sex leading to unwanted pregnancies and STDs among adolescents. These risk factors include individual characteristics...
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...Casey Smith Parenting Stress, Social Support, and Depression for Ethnic Minority Adolescent Mothers: Impact on Child Development Over the years teen pregnancies have seemed to increase higher, but girls of African American and Hispanic/ Latino ethnicities seem to have the highest pregnancy rate. Also African Americans and Hispanic/Latino have higher school dropout and economic disadvantages. Adolescent mothers also seem to have a higher risk of having depression or parental stress, rather then adult mothers. The mother’s depression can affect the child, and the child may be at risk of depression or development delays in life. If the mother seems to be having signs of depression they may not want a lot do with the child, and that could have a severe impact on the child. If the mother is depressed and doesn’t take care of their child properly, the child may have health problems or deal with substance abuse later in life. The purpose of this study was to see if parenting stress and social support impact child development especially in ethic minority populations. If the mothers parenting stress is high they will likely have negative parenting behaviors, which could impact the child and cause them to have depression. The child and mother then have an unhealthy attachment if she shows high levels of parenting stress. According to Spencer (2002) found that adolescent mothers continued to experience high levels of parenting stress 2 years after their infant was born. Since adolescent...
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...Developmental Profile August 4, 2012 Jessica is a fourteen year old Puerto Rican girl who is in her third trimester of pregnancy. Jessica has been sexually molested by her father Carlos and her twenty-five year old brother Junior since she was eight years old. Jose is Jessica’s boyfriend who is twenty-one years old and they have been sexually active since they met at a party. She currently lives with an aunt who took her in once the molestation and teen pregnancy came to light a few months ago. Jessica has no contact with her mother at this time. Her mother left the family when Jessica was six months old, but Jessica has no idea why her mother left. She has seen her mom from time to time, but they do not speak anymore. Jessica states that she took care of the family for as long as she can remember. It is reported that Junior took care of Jessica until she was able to care for herself. He helped her with potty training and learning to dress it did take her awhile to learn how to be totally potty trained. As soon as she was old enough she was cooking, cleaning and taking care of her father and brother. She states that they lived in a one bedroom apartment and she shared a bed with her brother and her father slept on the couch. She states that many nights they went to bed hungry. Jessica missed a lot of school when she was in elementary school since no one cared to get up in the morning. The only family she had growing up on a regular basis was her father, brother...
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...ABC Unified School District Tracy High School Cal- SAFE Teen Parent Program Part I: Program Summary Sonja Robinson PPA 696 - Research Methods in Public Policy and Administration Dr. Michelle Saint-Germain Thursday 7:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m. California State University, Long Beach May 22, 2010 Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction and Background 2 Cal-SAFE Teen Parent Program Description 3 Purpose of the Evaluation 11 A Logic Model for Cal-SAFE Teen Parent Program 12 Literature Review 13 Evaluation Design and Methods 19 References 29 Appendices 30 Executive Summary This summary provides an overview of the key findings from data and feedback collected during the course of an evaluation design on ABC Unified School District Cal-SAFE Teen Parent Program at Tracy High school. The program supports the academic success of pregnant and parenting teens, increases the availability of support services for enrolled students, and provides child care and developmental services to their children. The purpose of the comprehensive evaluation is to assess recent and longer-term impacts of the program on its participants. The evaluation requires a multi-phase approach that involved a series of data collection which includes, individual surveys, interviews, program...
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...properties and buildings empty. This program will make use of these properties, create jobs, and revitalized the neighborhood. Besides the conditions of the neighborhoods, the social interactions among the people are also theorized to play a part in criminality. This is known as the Social Process Theory. In one of the more run down areas of Toledo the East Toledo Family Center was started. They offer wrestling and basketball programs after school to give the kids an alternative than hanging out on the street. Along with the Toledo Public School district, they offer an alternative path to high school. On-line courses to get their diplomas or classes to prepare for the GED test. Strictly teens is a group that meets on Wednesday nights, this group tries to provide opportunities for the teens to try something new and offers support to succeed in whatever they choose. The center also works closely with the juvenile court system. They...
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