ERIC Number: ED323435
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1990-Aug-31
Pages: 53
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Overview of Teenage Pregnancy and Pregnancy Prevention. Staff Brief 90-10.
Sweet, Richard; And Others
This staff brief was prepared for the Wisconsin Legislative Council's Special Committee on Teenage Pregnancy Prevention and Related Issues. It presents information on teenage pregnancy, programs to deal with teenage pregnancy, and proposed legislation from the 1989-1990 Wisconsin Legislative Session. Part I of the brief provides pregnancy data for the United States and for Wisconsin. Part II looks at state teenage pregnancy prevention programs, including services by the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Pregnancy Services Board, and the Department of Public Instruction. The section on Department of Health and Social Services programs includes discussions of adolescent pregnancy prevention services, adolescent self-sufficiency grants, adolescent services, adolescent choices project grants, pregnancy counseling services grants, family planning grants, block grant funds for adolescent pregnancy prevention and related services, medical assistance for family planning, and grandparent liability. Part III describes four legislative proposals related to teenage pregnancy prevention which were introduced, but failed to be enacted into law, in the 1989-1990 Wisconsin Legislative Session. Proposals discussed relate to adolescent health services and child abuse reporting; sex education in public high schools; establishing a program of grants for clinics to provide school-based health services for adolescents, and creating an adolescent board. Section HSS 107.21 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code and a list of the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Pregnancy Services Board staff and members are appended. (NB)
Publication Type: Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials; Reports - General
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Wisconsin State Legislative Council, Madison.
Identifiers - Location: Wisconsin
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