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Resources for Religious Leaders


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National Campaign Publications

Bridging the Divide: Involving the Faith Community in Teen Pregnancy Prevention (2007)
Brief description on why faith leaders should play a role in preventing teen pregnancy?
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Briefly - Focus Group Findings: Faith-Based Urban Youth Workers
In May 2008, the National Campaign, in partnership with the Urban Youth Workers Institute, the Miranda Center, and Urban Strategies, conducted three focus groups with youth workers. The purpose of the focus groups was twofold: (1) to learn from youth workers about the ethnically diverse teens they serve and to explore teens’ attitudes and beliefs about sex, relationships, teen pregnancy, and parenting; and (2) to hear from youth workers themselves about unplanned pregnancy among their 20-something peers.
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Faith, Hope, and Love: How Latino Faith Communities Can Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2005)
Created in partnership with a distinguished group of advisors, this guide provides faith leaders serving Latino families ideas to help young people avoid too-early pregnancy and parenthood. (Available in Spanish as Fe, esperanza y amor: Cómo pueden las comunidades religiosas latinas ayudar prevenir el embarazo entre los adolescentes)
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Faith Matters: How African-American Faith Communities Can Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2006)
This publication is designed for African-American faith communities and provides practical tips to help young people navigate the difficult issues of love, sex, and relationships and avoid too-early pregnancy and parenthood.
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Faithful Nation (2001)
A National survey on what American adults and teens think about faith, morals, religion, and teen pregnancy.
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Keeping the Faith (2001)
A two-chapter report, by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Brian L. Wilcox, and Sharon Scales Rostosky, which explores some of the barriers between the faith and secular communities around issues of adolescent sexuality and examines what research says about the role religion plays in teens' sexual attitudes and behavior.
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Making a Love Connection (2006)
 This publication documents the powerful connection between still-high rates of teen pregnancy and the public policy focus on increasing the proportion of children who grow up in healthy, married families.
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Nine Tips for Faith Leaders (2005)
Updated in 2005. Written under the guidance of the Campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values, made up of religious and secular leaders, this pamphlet presents practical tips to help religious leaders and their communities help young people avoid too-early pregnancy. (Available in Spanish as Nueve consejos para ayudar a lideres espirituales)
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Religiosity and Teens' Sexual Behavior (2005)
Downloadable PowerPoint presentation created by the National Campaign.
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Religious Involvement and Children's Well-Being: What Research Tells Us (And What It Doesn't) (2002)
Child Trends research brief by Lisa Bridges and Kris Moore.
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Science Says #20 (2005)
This research brief discusses the association between parent, family, and peer religiosity, and teenagers' sexual experience and contraceptive use.
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Snapshots From the Frontline III: Lessons From Faith-Based Efforts to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2001)
This reader-friendly pamphlet offers a brief description of a variety of faith-based programs, from various denominations.
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Additional National Campaign Web Portals

  • En Español
    Con estas publicaciones, esperamos brindar más información e ideas para prevenir el embarazo entre los adolescentes Latinos. Also available in English.
  • Parents Page
    This web portal lists several resources and ideas for parents to begin talking to their teens about sex, relationships, contraception, and being ready to make the right decisions.
  • State and National Data Sections
    Comprehensive, searchable overviews of all 50 states (and Washington, DC) that allowsone to compare and contrast statistics for up to three states with a variety of different factors.
  • StayTeen
    The National Campaign's website for teens -- Stayteen provides advice, tips, and information for teens on sex, love, and relationships.
  • Why It Matters
    This web page and the accompanying fact sheets seek to illustrate the affect of teen and unplanned pregnancy on a variety of social issues.


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