Teen Pregnancy Prevention

• About teen pregnancy prevention
• Why care?
• Information for parents, teens, community partners 
• Data, publications & resources
• Contacts 

About teen pregnancy prevention

Oregon's teen pregnancy rate has continued to decline over the past years. Thanks to collaborative community-led efforts, youth are making better choices for themselves.

In 2003, 1,965 girls ages 15-17 became pregnant in Oregon. As we know, there are many consequences for the young mother, father, and child. Let us all continue to work together so that all youth have the opportunity of a safe and healthy life.

• 2008 Oregon Plan to Promote Youth Sexual Health - Feb 2008 draft 
• Announcement - Building on Success Towards a Healthy Future (PDF)
• Oregon's Blueprint for Success - Seven strategies that unite Oregonians in their pregnancy prevention efforts.
• Oregon's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Task Force - A statewide, non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating communication and awareness about teen pregnancy prevention and teen parenting.
• Rights, Respect, Responsibility - Rights, Respect, Responsibility, Teen Sexuality: Lessons from Europe is a multi-year project designed to enhance the effectiveness of teen pregnancy prevention efforts in Oregon.
• Students Today Aren’t Ready for Sex (STARS) program - The STARS program trains high school teen leaders to help their younger peers in middle school learn how to say no to sexual involvement at an early age.

Why Care?

Why care? Teen pregnancy effects everyone. Find out about:

• Teen pregnancy rates
  • Facts of life - teen pregnancy statistics (PDF)
  • What if the teen birth rate hadn't declined?
• Benchmarks
• Social and economic consequences of teen pregnancy (PDF)
• Information on how to get involved in local efforts

More information for...

Community partners - Statewide coalition contacts, best practices, successful strategies, funding opportunities, coalition building and more...

• Parents - Publications & web site links
• Teens - Publications, Web sites and hotline phone numbers

Data, publications and resources

• Data & statistics - State and county teen pregnancy rates by zipcode, age of parents, ethnicity.
• Publications - Action agenda, Curriculum guide, Rational Enquirer, newsletters and more...

Contact us