Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine Guilford Child Health
We are an integrated medical home for people whose incomes are at or below the federal poverty limit. We assess and attend to the needs of both the parent and child then connect them to community resources. Our Adolescent Team aims to prevent risky behaviors that lead to pregnancy or getting someone pregnant and to support those who are newly parenting. We screen for alcohol and substance use, prescribe birth control, treat STI’s, and provide mental services.
Guilford County Health Department Programs
Triad Baby Love Plus focuses on providing outreach and education to teens from 15-19yrs old prior to and after a pregnancy. Outreach efforts are geared toward providing education on infant mortality, birth spacing and birth control options, community resources and health care options. Baby Love targets teens that are pregnant and quality for Medicaid. Maternity Case Managers provide information on pregnancy, childbirth, parenting community resources, remaining in school, day care options, and setting goals for future.
Guilford County Schools Social Workers
We serve adolescents ages 11-18 by encouraging abstinence. If a student is pregnant, we make sure appropriate resources are in place, refer them to the school nurse, provide information on insurance possibilities, and a list of community support organizations that can assist them through their pregnancy. Our most important role is to make sure these individuals will still be successful academically. We will be offering a life skills group that will promote self-esteem in young people.
Congregational Nurse Program from Moses Cone Health System
We provide education programs, brochures, and bulletin boards. Our nurses work with the teens and their family’s one on one. We try to impact healthy communication, parenting, self-esteem, peer pressure, sex education, birth control, and risk taking behaviors in the adolescent pregnancy prevention areas.
Family Services of the Piedmont: Healthy Start
We serve mothers and their infants/toddlers, and some fathers or grandparents, predominantly African American and Hispanic. Our program impacts teen pregnancy prevention by being a support system for those mothers. We educate them on post partum depression and their symptoms, and birth control options and delaying future pregnancy until prepared for another. We also support clients by creating goals for them to stay in and finish school or to get their GED and continue to college.
http://www.familyservice-piedmont.org
Family Life Council, A Division of Children’s Home Society of NC
We educate pregnant and parenting teens regarding the importance of spacing and family planning that have already had children during their teen years. Further, we continue to strengthen their support system and build protective factors that have been shown to decrease teen pregnancy such as high self-esteem, positive role models, having a safe living situation, and psychosocial support.
Wise Guys
We are a part of the Family Life Council, a division of Children’s Home Society of NC. We do multi-session prevention educational programs for males and Latinos, and we have specific components for teens and adult men. We also provide programs for parents/guardians and educators on positive communication with teens about sexuality, and conduct trainings for professionals nationwide on implementation of our programs. Our programs impact teen pregnancy prevention by providing interactive sessions that affect knowledge, attitudes and behaviors related to masculinity and sexual decision-making.
YWCA of High Point
We serve adolescent girls who are parenting or pregnant for the first time, ages 13-19, working toward high school diploma or GED completion. One of our many goals we focus on the importance of delaying second pregnancy until the adolescent has achieved high school diploma or GED completion. We encourage as well as ask each participant (one on one) what family planning method he or she is practicing. Doing so, this help decreases the subsequent pregnancies that could take place after a teen experience her first pregnancy.
Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center
We are a faith-based, life-affirming organization serving women and men, one-third being local college students, before during and after pregnancy. We educate and support our clients via trained volunteer peer advocates. We impact teen pregnancy by sharing the message of sexual integrity and abstinence with middle school, high school, and college students and by offering practical assistance and support to teen mothers and fathers.
http://www.pregnantfreehelp.com
Smart Girls
We impact teen pregnancy prevention by educating and empowering over 1200 young women annually with the information and skills necessary to develop healthy relationships and make smart decisions throughout life.
College Bound Sisters
We are a pregnancy prevention and college preparation program within the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. We target the younger sisters of teen mothers between the ages of 12-18. The program is designed to help the younger sisters of teenage mothers avoid pregnancy, graduate from high school and enroll in college. CBS impacts teen pregnancy by helping to prevent pregnancy and change the life trajectory of girls who are served.
http://nursing.uncg.edu/cbs/aboutus.html
The Guilford County Department of Public Health
We serve all residents of Guilford County-men, women, children, and infants. We impact teen pregnancy by offering a full range of affordable family planning services, including physical examinations and birth control options.
Planned Parenthood Health Systems: Teens Taking Action Peer Education Program
Teens Taking Action (TTA) is a group of youth, making a difference in their communities through peer health education and advocacy. TTA members go through an intensive training program covering behavior and decision-making, communication skills, puberty/anatomy, health sexuality, peer pressure/self image, healthy relationships, pregnancy prevention, diversity, risk behaviors along with public speaking and advocacy component.
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-systems
Bethel AME Church program: My Body, My Life
We use two curricula (BART) Becoming A Responsible Teen and Be Proud Be Responsible. We target young African American teens ages 10-14, but we have a few 15 and 16 year olds, both male and female. The impact has been both positive and successful in that participants of the program have advertised the program to their peers and brought them to the program through the social network: facebook, twitter, flyers, radio media, etc.
www.outreachdevelopmentinc.com
YWCA Greensboro Teen Parent Mentor Program (TPMP)
TPMP is a comprehensive, relationship-based program for pregnant and parenting teens, which uses individual and group support to help teen moms deliver and raise healthy, school-ready children, increase their self-sufficiency through increased academic attainment, and postpone subsequent pregnancies to beyond the teen years.
GCS Family Life Program
Health Resource teachers are licensed in Health Education, and are trained annually to keep information taught up to date regarding health issues. We encourage information taught be shared with parents to help build successful communication skills necessary in building critical life skills in teens as they become productive citizens. Health Resources teachers impart useful skills of assertiveness, social interaction, and life preparedness as it relates to sexuality.
