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Ounce of Prevention Fund. – 1992
This booklet describes two prevention programs, Peer Power, a program for girls, and Awareness and Development for Adolescent Males (ADAM), a program for boys. It is noted that these programs, designed to reach students before high school age, help young adolescents stay in school, delay sexual activity and pregnancy, and develop realistic career…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Adolescents, Career Exploration, Contraception
Kirby, Douglas – 1985
This report discusses the ongoing movement to provide health care and health information to adolescents through school-based clinics and other programs. The report begins with an overview of programs, focusing on: the unique health needs of adolescents; the growth in the number of school-based clinics; goals and objectives of the special programs;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Contraception, Family Planning, Health Facilities
Chaves, Lushanhya Coutinho; And Others – 1986
A family planning clinic which was part of a large public maternity hospital in Salvador Bahia, Brazil received a grant to expand its services and to evaluate a service model focusing on client counseling and education. The counseling, education, and service provision process included individual pre-consultation with a nurse, group education and…
Descriptors: Contraception, Counseling, Family Planning, Foreign Countries
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1989
This document provides a committee report, together with minority views, on the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Care, and Research Grants Act of 1989 (S. 120), as returned to the Senate by the Committee on Labor and Human Resources with a substituting amendment and recommendation for passage. The bill amends the Public Health Service Act to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Contraception, Early Parenthood, Family Planning
Biemiller, Lawrence – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
AIDS education is seen as the moral and ethical obligation of colleges and to be effective it must be aimed at changing behavior and repeated in different formats. The more effective the program, the more controversial it might be, because effective programs admit that there's explorational behavior by students. (MLW)
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, College Role, College Students, Colleges
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Kirby, Douglas – Journal of School Health, 1999
Examines progress in the research on adolescent sexual behavior and pregnancy over the past 20 years, discussing advances in research methodology in five areas, advances in understanding teen pregnancy and finding solutions to problems in five areas, and two new research-based pillars for pregnancy prevention (sex- and HIV-education programs and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Contraception, Early Parenthood