NINE TIPS TO PREVENT TEEN PREGNANCY

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy recommends nine tips to help faith leaders and their communities address teen pregnancy:

  1. Address the need teens have for spiritual fulfillment and help them find answers to the many challenging problems they face.
     
  2. Encourage parents to talk with their children about sex and morality within the context of your faith tradition.
     
  3. Enlist adults in your faith community to help young people.
     
  4. Make sure the children and teenagers in your faith community understand what your faith tradition says about sex, love, and marriage in general and teen pregnancy, in particular. Use clear and unambiguous language.
     
  5. Learn about contemporary youth culture - what your young people are reading, listening to, watching and doing.
     
  6. Organize supervised group activities for teenagers in your faith community.
     
  7. Reach out to teenagers who are not involved in any faith community.
     
  8. Celebrate achievement and excellence.
     
  9. Reach out to other faith communities, neighborhood organizations, and institutions that work with young people.

 

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