Getting the Facts to Teens and Beyond
Photo by Catherine P. Lewis, courtesy of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy addresses two of the most important of choices young people must make – when to have sex, and how to be safe. Too often a taboo topic for conversation, sex and its consequences can be seen in the hundreds of thousands of unplanned babies who are born each year. They are statistically more likely to suffer a cascade of life-altering challenges: developmental delays, lower grades, higher high school drop-out rates, lower college attendance rates, lower paying jobs, and higher rates of divorce.
The Hewlett Foundation has supported the National Campaign’s work with an $18 million, three-year grant to expand its goals to include women in their twenties, who account for the largest portion of each year’s 1.3 million abortions.
The newly broadened campaign has already begun communicate with teens and twenty-somethings about how to prevent unplanned pregnancies. Through its Media Advisory Group, the National Campaign has developed partnerships with more than 100 major media leaders and works with every major television broadcast network and with many of the top cable networks to weave prevention messages into the content of their work.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/.
