IN CALIFORNIA

Baby Steps: Schools Help Teen Moms Succeed
An Oakland Tribune article discusses school-based support systems including academic, personal and child care services so teen parents can break the cycle.

WYSE Mentors Help Teens Discover Alternatives to Pregnancy
Middle-school girls in four California communities are learning through mentors and intensive after-school programs that routes to true self-esteem and healthy peer approval do not include sexual activity and pregnancy at an early age.

Teen Pregnancy: Get Real About It
Our children are our future. California has one of the highest teen birthrates in the nation -- evidence that it's time to take a realistic approach to teen pregnancy prevention. Everyone can do something to help. Teen pregnancy is also an adult problem. Let's solve it together.

California Teen Pregnancy Fact Sheet (PDF)
Published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

San Francisco's Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Project (TAPP)
Teen Parent Lifeskills: Parenting and lifeskills support groups for pregnant and parenting clients and their siblings. TAPP services pregnant and parenting teens and their siblings -- both male and female -- through case management and lifeskills support groups. TAPP focuses on the reduction in second births or prevention of the first, enrollment or retention in schools, reduction of low birth weights, and reduction in risk behaviors of adolescents. While based in the Mission District, the Division services teen citywide. TAPP acts as a Teen and Family Resource Center that provides a myriad of support service programming ranging from child development and child care to nutrition and health education, job readiness, mental health, relationship violence prevention, and academic counseling. These youth-friendly and youth development services can be accessed in "one-stop shopping" or facilitated through long-standing partnerships with other quality, youth-service agencies. No fees to teens and infants.
2730 Bryant Street, 2nd Floor, SF, CA 94110 (415) 695-8300

GirlMom
GirlMom is about empowerment. GirlMom is about defying social stereotypes, and fighting for our rights as mothers

What's It Like To Be a Young Mother?
Perspectives from San Francisco's girlhealth.org, created by young women, for young women.

Perspective from Youth Radio
"Last year, my cousin became a father. He was only eighteen years old."

Stacy's Story & Mary's Story
This site features stories about Stacy and Mary, teen moms in Ohio and Kentucky.

Stacy's story talks about how Stacy's mother, Stephanie, regrets that she didn't discuss birth control with her daughter. "I knew she was pregnant, so I confronted her about it and she told me that she had two periods last month so she was fine. She must have thought I was stupid," says Stephanie, now able to laugh about that moment. "But Kelsey is here and we love her a lot," Stephanie explains as she picks up her granddaughter to kiss her and plays with her.

Mary found help in community programs for food and utilities, and looked to the government for help with prenatal care. When asked asked what would happen if government subsidies were taken away, she responded, "I wouldn't be eating. I'd be eating macaroni and cheese all the time. I'd be very unhealthy. Right now we go through food stamps so fast because I'm pregnant. We have to use what little cash we have to buy more food."

Closer Look at Teen Pregnancy
This site provides information for teens and parents about teen pregnancy. The goal of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy by one-third between 1996 and 2005.

Teen Pregnancy Prevention
The Family Health Council of western Pennsylvania has special activities including a multi-media campaign; sexuality education guidebooks for parents and teens; and peer education.

Ideas about Relationships and Pregnancy
This spiritual site, sponsored by Soul Choice International, is about teen pregnancy and reasons not to have abortions.

What Can Happen when Teens Have Sex
This site, made by the Pregnancy Centers of Central Virginia, is about what can happen when teens have sex, also the depression and doubts that they may have.

One Family's Perspective
A pro-life perspective on teen pregnancy: your teenage pregnancy is difficult, but fast help and information is available to you!

Virginity Pledge
A Wiretap Magazine article talks about teen virginity pledges: "For many of today's adults, it is a teenage nightmare that would have scarred them for life: There you stand on the high school stage, telling a packed auditorium that you're a virgin. You star in a play about it. And declare that you won't have sex for God knows how long."

FACTS & STATISTICS

National Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting, and Prevention
Their vision is that all adolescents will make responsible decisions about sexuality, pregnancy and parenting. This database of resources and articles may help you find more useful information.

U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics
This site has different publications, periodicals and news-releases on teen pregnancy.

Facts about Teen Sex and Pregnancy
The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education.

Statistics on Adolescent Pregnancy
Provided by Mary's Shelter, in Southern California, an organization that serves adolescents in need of a loving & nurturing environment during their time of pregnancy & beyond.

Oregon teen pregnancy trends (PDF)
Compiled by the State of Oregon's Center for Health Statistics.

Teen Sex and Pregnancy
This Childbirth Solutions site talks about how the likelihood of teenagers having intercourse increases steadily with age, and how 1 in 5 young people do not have intercourse while teenagers. This site also discusses how most sexually active young men have female partners close to their age, but younger than they are.