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Did you hear the news?  Last week, APPCNC (that’s the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of NC) set a huge, hairy, audacious goal to reduce teen pregnancy in NC by 30% within the next 8 years.  That size of a goal is unprecedented.  The National Campaign’s goal is 20% by 2020 and the Healthy People 2020 objective for the [...]

We had a nice suprise at GCAPP today.  It seems a local news reporter noticed a brochure for a teen parenting program and got to thinking about the cost of teen pregnancy.  Luckily for us, she came to us for the answers!  Check out the live interview at:   http://www.digtriad.com/news/health/article/196450/8/The-Cost-Of-Teen-Pregnancy To our friends at APPCNC – [...]

I can admit it; I’m a bit of a nerd.  I was listening to NPR the other day when a program came on about the teenage brain.  It seems that several researchers have been trying to understand just why teens tend to engage in risky behavior.  They have discovered that the human brain is actually [...]

The National Campaign to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy just released the results of a national  survey of 1,500 African-American youth ages 13-21.  The study was done to understand youth’s attitudes about relationships, sex, dating, parents, the media, and how they make important decisions.  Some of the findings include: 45% reported they’ve been pressured to do more sexually than they wanted [...]

Last winter, in preparation for the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Summit (APPS), we interviewed community leaders about teen pregnancy, how youth are impacted and what we should do to prevent teen pregnancy.  Those interviewed included political leaders, faith community leaders, business leaders and community advocates.  Their thoughts, ideas and solutions were presented as a short video [...]

Last week, GCAPP hosted a networking meeting about Human Trafficking.  Danielle Mitchell and Anna Church from World Relief NC spoke about this serious concern.  Did you know that 25% of all human trafficking victims are in the southeast US?  Our part of the country is relatively easy for perpetrators to smuggle victims in and through [...]

North Carolina is fortunate to have an amazing text messaging warm line to provide fast, factual information on teens’ sexual health questions.  The BrdsNBz service at the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of NC won a national award for Outstanding Innovation from the Healthy Teen Network in 2010.  Teens can sign up at no charge, text questions [...]

The latest data available say that teen pregnancy cost taxpayers $328 million in 2008 and $7.7 billion between 1991 and 2008.  The majority of the cost (58%) is to NC taxpayers.  Research tells us that  most of the cost associated with teen pregnancy is due to the negative consequences for the children of teen parents.  Children born [...]

At the recent Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Summit (APPS) nearly three hundred individuals from all walks of life gathered to address the issue of teen pregnancy in our community.  From this gathering, over ninety people made a commitment to work on one of ten issues identified as problems related to teen pregnancy.   There is still room [...]