How do they contribute to teen pregnancy prevention?
Nancy Berglas, MHS1, Helen Cagampang, PhD1, Claire Brindis, DrPH1, Kathryn Shack, PhD2, and McCarter Virginia, PhD1. (1) Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 265, San Francisco, CA 94143-0936, 415-502-4052, berglas@itsa.ucsf.edu, (2) Office of Community Challenge Grants, California Department of Health Services, 714 P Street, Room 576, Sacramento, CA 95814 In 1999-2000, the California Department of Health Services funded 134 Community Challenge Grant (CCG) projects to reduce the states high rates of adolescent pregnancy. Prior evaluation of the CCG project (Brindis & Cagampang, 2001) has shown that adolescents attending programs that provide both youth development opportunities and comprehensive family life education experience the greatest positive change in outcome measures from pretest to posttest. Thus, it is especially important to examine the relationship between reproductive health education an
