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Over its history, the National Campaign has produced a variety of reports and research on the subject of teen pregnancy. Collected here are some of our most popuar research efforts. For a complete listing of resources, please visit our Campaign bibliography page or the Campaign Online Store.
10 Tips for Foster Parents
Youth in foster care are at significant risk for teen pregnancy, according to this November 2006 report. This brief, user-friendly guide offers some ideas to help foster parents strengthen their relationships with foster youth and how best to communicate about sex, love, and relationships. It reflects input from foster parents as well as practitioners who work with them.
14
& Younger: The Sexual Behavior of Young Adolescents
(summary)
Released in 2003, this report answers some lingering
questions concerning this age group's sexual activity,
pregnancy rate, contraceptive use, dating patterns,
and communication with their parents about sex and related
issues.
The
Adolescent Brain: A Work in Progress
Released in the Summer of 2005, this 21-page publication
contains a foreword by National Campaign Director Sarah
Brown, a brief summary, a chart of key findings, as
well as the paper itself. The authors explore adolescent
neurological development, and recommend incorporating
their research into discussions on adolescent sexual
behavior and pregnancy.
Breaking
Ground
(summary)
Released in December 2003, Breaking Ground spotlights
the successful approaches and unexpected challenges
during the first two years of the CDC's Community Coalition
Partnership Programs for the Prevention of Teen Pregnancy.
Bridging Two Worlds: How Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs Can Better Serve Latino Youth
Although teen pregnancy and birth rates have declined in the Latino community, they have not declined nearly as rapidly as they have among other racial/ethnic groups. This report summarizes research, provides guidance on effective programs for Latino youth, provides advice from those working with Latino teens, as well as the advice of Latino teens themselves.
By the Numbers: the Public Costs of Teen Childbearing
Teen childbearing in the United States costs taxpayers (federal, state, and local) at least $9.1 billion, according to the October 2006 National Campaign. Most of the costs of teen childbearing are associated with negative consequences for the children of teen mothers, including increased costs for health care, foster care, and incarceration.
Copy That: Guidelines for Replicating Programs to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Copy That makes clear that a key step to lowering teen pregnancy rates further is to extend the reach of teen pregnancy prevention programs that have been shown to have positive results. This report provides general guidelines for practitioners who are considering adopting a program for replication or thinking about preparing their own program for replication
Do
Abstinence-Only Programs Delay the Initiation of Sex
Among Young People and Reduce Teen Pregnancy?
Released October 2002, this report is Dr. Doug Kirby's
answer to the important question: Do there now exist
studies with good evidence demonstrating that one or
more abstinence-only programs delay sex and/or reduce
teen pregnancy?
Emerging
Answers: New Research Findings on Programs to Reduce
Teen Pregnancy
(summary)
The report summary of this May 2001 publication offers
practitioners and policymakers information on what programs
work to prevent teen pregnancy.
Faith, Hope, and Love:
How Latino Faith Communities Can Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
Released in November 2005 and created in partnership
with a distinguished group of advisors, the guide provides
faith leaders serving Latino families ideas to help
young people avoid too-early pregnancy and parenthood.
Fostering Hope: Preventing Teen Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care
This 28-page report developed with UCAN provides (1) quantitative research on the high rates of teen pregnancy among foster care youth, (2) important new qualitative research presenting findings from Chicago-area focus groups in which foster care youth (some who are already teen parents) and foster parents were asked about their perspective on teen pregnancy, and (3) results of an online survey of Chicago-area child welfare service providers.
Freeze Frame: A Snapshot of America’s Teens
This report covers it all when it comes to teens: from health, to sense of self, eating habits, and STD's, Freeze Frame is a vital resource for anyone interested in the current state of American teens.
A
Good Time: After-School Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy
Released in January 2004 in partnership with Child Trends, A Good Time provides detailed descriptions of
those after-school programs that have been shown through
careful research to have a positive impact on adolescent
behavior.
Halfway
There: A Prescription for Continued Progress in Preventing
Teen Pregnancy
Released April 2001, Halfway There offers research
(including analysis of why teen pregnancy rates are
declining), key findings from the National Campaign's
first five years, and a list of recommendations to policymakers,
parents, teens, the media, and others.
It’s a Guy Thing: Boys, Young Men, and Teen Pregnancy Prevention
This report provides an in-depth exploration of teen boys' sexual behavior, programs that have been successful in changing their sexual behavior, and advice from those who work with teen boys and young men.
- Chapter one, authored by William Marsiglio, Ph.D., is an extensive review of research on the attitudes and behavior of boys and young men regarding sex, contraception, pregnancy, and related issues.
- Chapter two, written by Amy Vastine Ries and Freya Sonenstein, Ph.D., reviews evaluation research on the effectiveness of school-based, coed programs in reducing risky sexual behavior among adolescent boys.
- Chapter three, written by Molly Whitehead and Karen Troccoli, offers a more qualitative look at the challenges in engaging teen boys and young men in teen pregnancy prevention and some strategies for overcoming them.
Keeping
the Faith: The Role of Religion and Faith Communities
in Preventing Teen Pregnancy
Released in September 2001, this summary explores some
of the barriers between the faith and secular communities
around issues of adolescent sexuality and examines what
research says about the role religion plays in teens'
sexual attitudes and behavior.
Kiss and Tell: What Teens Say About Love, Trust, and Other Relationship Stuff
This brochure is a compilation of findings taken from a national survey of young people, key themes and quotes that emerged from a survey conducted on the National Campaign website, and from focus group research conducted in 2007 throughout the United States.
Making a Love Connection: Teen Relationships, Pregnancy, and Marriage
Making a Love Connection documents the powerful connection between still-high rates of teen pregnancy and the public policy focus on increasing the proportion of children who grow up in healthy, married families. The authors note that young people are in the dark about the economic and social benefits of a low-conflict and long-lasting marriage for men, women, and children and outline ways to help teens develop positive expectations for their current and future relationships and family life.
Making
the List: Understanding, Selecting, and Replicating
Effective Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs
Released in 2004, Making the List helps those
working with young people to navigate lists of effective
teen pregnancy prevention programs and make informed
decisions about how to select the best one(s) for a
particular community and population.
No
Easy Answers: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce
Teen Pregnancy
The precursor to Emerging Answers, this 1997
comprehensive research review finds "there are
no magic bullets" for preventing teen pregnancy.
Prevention programs that address the complex reasons
that teens become pregnant show the most promise for
significantly reducing teen pregnancy and birth rates.
No
Time to Waste: Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy Among
Middle School-Aged Youth
Produced in partnership with Child Trends in February
2004, No Time to Waste provides detailed descriptions
of those programs for middle school-aged youth that
have been shown through careful research to have a positive
impact on adolescent sexual behavior. The publication
provides detailed descriptions of program curriculum,
costs, and evaluation results
Not
Just Another Single Issue: Teen Pregnancy Prevention's
Link to Other Critical Social Issues
Released in February 2002, this report makes the case
that preventing teen pregnancy should be viewed not
only as a reproductive health issue, but as one that
works to improve a host of critical social issues.
Not
Yet: Programs to Delay First Sex Among Teens
Produced in partnership with Child Trendsin September
2004, Not Yet provides detailed descriptions
of prevention programs that have been shown through
careful research to have a delayed first sex among teens.
Partners in Progress: the Education Community and Preventing Teen Pregnancy
Based on a survey of national organizations by the Campaign's State and Local Action Task Force, this directory describes the kinds of assistance and resources national groups offer state and local teen pregnancy prevention efforts. Specifically, it lists programs, conferences and other training opportunities, publications, curricula, and position statements covering such topics as male involvement, clinical services, peer education, coalition-building, outreach to the faith community, mentoring, advocacy, and more.
Playing Catch-Up:
How Children Born to Teen Mothers Fare
Produced in partnership with Child Trends, Playing
Catch-Up describes how children of teen mothers
aged 17 and younger begin kindergarten with lower levels
of school readiness than those children born to older
mothers, according to new research published by the
National Campaign. The report also notes that children
born to mother aged 18-19 do not perform much better
on most measures than children born to mothers 17 and
younger.
Sexual
Risk and Protective Factors
This August 2005 paper and accompanying matrix provide
an exhaustive analysis of the more than 400 factors
that can effect teen sexual behavior.
Terms of Engagement: How to Involve Parents in Programs to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
This publication provides strategies for addressing the challenges programs face when involving parents in preventing teen pregnancy.
The challenges include:
(1) reaching parents in the first place
(2) motivating parents to participate and keeping them involved
(3) knowing what to say to parents and how to say it
(4) paying for programs
This is My Reality: Black Urban Youth Sexuality and the Role of the Media
The extraordinarily frank report summarizes findings from 40 focus groups conducted in ten cities in 2002, and offers many sobering insights from low-income Black youth on their views about sex, relationships, marriage, pregnancy, and parenthood.
What
If: How Declines in Teen Births Have Reduced Poverty
and Increased Child Well-Being (summary)
If the teen birth rate had not declined between 1991
and 2002, there would have been an additional 470,000
children living in poverty. Read about this and other
important new findings in a new report from the U.S. Congress' House and Ways Committee Democrats.
What's It Going to Take?
This full-length research brief and summary publication reports findings from a research conference hosted by the National Campaign in collaboration with the Division of Reproductive Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at NIH.
What Helps in Providing Contraceptive Services for Teens?
What helps in providing contraceptive services for teens? Over the years, the National Campaign has produced and disseminated a number of detailed reports and publications designed to answer this question. Here, in shorthand form, is an overview of what is known about carefully evaluated clinic interventions that help prevent teen pregnancy.
What Works: Curriculum-Based Programs That Prevent Teen Pregnancy
This 19-page pamphlet presents a succinct overview of what is known about carefully evaluated interventions that help prevent teen pregnancy, including a list of effective programs, selected program effects, contact information, as well as direct links to resources providing additional program and evaluation information. The pamphlet offers advice on how to choose a program, catalogs the characteristics of effective programs, and offers some words of caution about what an effective program actually can accomplish.
With One Voice: America's Adults and Teens Sound
Off About Teen Pregnancy
A nationally representative survey commissioned by the
National Campaign of both adults and teens to get their
views on teen pregnancy and related issues.
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