Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program
The program utilizes a message of abstinence and contraception to encourage teens to make responsible, healthy decisions.
The mission of the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program is two-fold:
- to improve the knowledge of adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their impact on the community and build the community’s will to work on prevention efforts and
- to encourage behavioral change to support the prevention and reduction of adolescent pregnancy and STIs.
This mission is reached using various strategies, including one-on-one counseling, relationships with community agencies and implementation of an ongoing teen pregnancy/STI prevention media campaign.
- Youth are smart, valuable and responsible.
- Adolescent pregnancy and STI transmission are completely preventable.
- Too-early pregnancy is a community issue that can be addressed with collaborative partnerships.
- Parents, families and schools are an integral part of communication and education for adolescents.
- Adolescents should abstain from all sexual activity and be carefully taught both the medical rationale for abstinence as well as real-world tools for maintaining continued abstinence.
- If adolescents are sexually active then they should be taught the medical rationale for renewed abstinence as well as the most effective and safe methods for contraception.
- Sexually active adolescents must have access to medical advice and care along with counseling, advice and support to assist them in developing a safe and healthy lifestyle.
- Tolerance and diversity are necessary to reduce the rate of adolescent pregnancy and STIs in Pueblo County.
Address
- Street: 215 W 10th St.
- City: Pueblo
- State: CO
- Postcode: 81003
Contact
- Telephone: 719-593-6000
- Website: http://county.pueblo.org/government/city/department/pueblo-city-county-health-department/adolescent-pregnancy