Who's who in teen pregnancy prevention?

Prevention programs

• In offices in larger communities, workers are assigned to teen parent caseloads. Multnomah County efforts include weekly visits with first-time moms, part of a national research project.
  
  
• Contact: Belit Stockfleth, 503-947-5389, email:   belit.stockfleth@state.or.us
  
  
• Abstinence programs, including STARS and a new legislative initiative to support abstinence-only until marriage.
  
  Contact: Sandra Harms (503) 945-6134, email: sharms@state.or.us
   
  
• Provides statewide support for Reduce Adolescent Pregnancy Partnership (RAPP), a network of local coalitions dedicated to reducing teen pregnancy.
  
  Contact: Lawrence Piper (503) 945-6074, email: lpiper@state.or.us
  
  
• Additional support for RAPP comes from a federal AmeriCorps grant. AmeriCorps members, basically full-time volunteers receiving a minimal living allowance, help with activities in communities.
  
  Contact: Tina McCollum (503) 945-6906, email: tina.mccollum@state.or.us

Public health

• Funding of family planning services at more than 90 clinics in all 36 counties, with priority for low-income populations (below 185% of poverty) and teens.
  
  Contact: Rian Frachele (971) 673-0364, email: rian.frachele@state.or.us

• The Oregon Healthy Teens Survey, conducted with the Oregon Department of Education, which gathers data on a wide range of youths' risky behaviors.
   
  Contact: Renee Boyd (971) 673-1145, e-mail renee.k.boyd@state.or.us

• A full-time adolescent pregnancy prevention coordinator.
   
  Contact: Jessica Duke (971) 673-0242, e-mail jessica.duke@state.or.us

Mental health

• The Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services provides some service through county mental health systems, contracts with Oregon Health Plan providers, mental health organizations and select other contractors.
  Contact: (503) 945-9700.

Alcohol and drug abuse

• Prevention efforts through counties and local coalitions focus on reducing risky behavior and increasing sobriety, strategies that can help reduce teen pregnancy. Contact: (503) 945-5763.

Office of Medical Assistance Programs

• Family planning services are a covered service in the Oregon Health Plan.

Child welfare

• Foster parents and case workers address family planning, sexuality and contraception as appropriate with teens and parents.
  
• Curriculum in the office's Independent Living Program, for youth becoming emancipated, includes family planning, sexuality, esteem-building.