Abstract Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program: A Grant Proposal Project

Аннотация

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; 201 la) more than 400,000 teen girls, ages 15-19 give birth each year in the United States. In fact, teen birth rates in the United States are 9 times higher than in other developed countries. In regards to race, both Hispanics and African Americans are 2 to 3 times more likely to give birth than Caucasian teenagers (CDC; 201 la). Becoming a teenage parent has immediate and long term consequences both for the teenage parents and their children. In fact, some of those contextual features include substance use, lack of social supports, and high levels of mental health co-morbidity (Ott, Rouse, Resseguie, Smith, & Woodcox, 2011). In addition, pregnancy and childbearing are significant contributor factors for high school dropout rates, having health problems, becoming incarcerated sometime during their lifetime, and facing unemployment as an adult. Other factors include growing up in poverty, growing up in single-parent households, and having low performance in school (CDC; 201 lb). These statistics and consequences show the importance of sexual health education in teenagers in order to prevent teen pregnancy.