|
|
 |
|
All health care providers provide counseling on family planning options, including abstinence and birth control, to all women and men of reproductive age.
 |
|
 |
|
| Through several outreach programs, including Teen Outreach, Adult Role Models (ARMS), and Gurlz Talk, Planned Parenthood of New York City engages community members as partners in efforts to reduce teen pregnancy and improve sexual health. Counselors work with families and individuals to remove financial barriers to services, which include reproductive health care, pregnancy testing, and STD and HIV testing. www.ppnyc.org
Durham County (NC) Health Department’s TEAS (Together Everyone Accomplishes Something) works with teenagers and their parents, guardians, or mentors to delay initiation of sexual activity, to promote contraceptive use in teens who are sexually active, to keep program participants enrolled in school, and to prevent their use of illegal drugs. www.co.durham.nc.us/common/db-dept.cfm?ID=25 | |
|
 |
|
 |
Providers of family planning services offer a range reproductive services that are effective, affordable, and acceptable to a variety of actual and potential users. They provide these in settings, locations, at times and in ways that make them conveniently accessible and most likely to enable clients to choose and use with satisfaction contraception and other means of ensuring that pregnancies are intended.
- They provide culturally sensitive information
- They provide reproduction-related health education in a variety of forms (including information about both abstinence and contraception) appropriate to a variety of actual and potential users.
- They minimize barriers to family planning services and reproduction-related health education, through outreach and other means.
Local organizations promote positive alternatives to early childbearing aimed at postponing both first and subsequent pregnancies.
|
|
|
|
| The Children's Aid Society's Adolescent Sexuality and Pregnancy Prevention Program operates on the belief that success in school, meaningful employment, access to quality medical and mental health services, and interactions with high caliber, role-model adults have a potent contraceptive effect on teens. Initially launched in a community center in Harlem, the program has been adapted in 20 states. Services include employment experience, individual academic assessment, tutoring, homework help, assistance with college entrance, family life and sex education and self-expression through the arts and sports. www.stopteenpregnancy.com
The Best Friends Program targets girls ages 12-18 with messages about abstaining from sex until marriage and avoiding illegal drug and alcohol use. Best Friends’ activities help adolescent girls develop skills necessary to avoid at-risk behaviors and to become socially competent individuals and valued members of society. www.bestfriendsfoundation.org | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
