They should be supported in their roles and included in planning and developing strategies to prevent teen pregnancy. Focusing on boys and young men is critical to any effort to prevent teen pregnancy. Girls are indeed the ones who get pregnant, but it takes two to cause a pregnancy. Focusing on the Kids opens with an overview of the promising programs that can help prevent teen pregnancy. The other chapters explain how to tailor programs to stages of adolescent development, to create interventions for girls, to involve boys and young men in prevention efforts, and to involve young people themselves in developing and implementing programs.
Every chapter concludes with a list of helpful references and resources.
While the chapters and volumes of Get Organized certainly complement each other, each individual chapter is also meant to stand on its own as a resource. Communities around the country increasingly recognize that helping teens avoid pregnancy can't be accomplished by any single program or strategy. Because the causes of teen pregnancy are complicated and overlapping, solutions must have many parts and approaches. Get Organized was previewed this past summer at the National Campaign's first regional technical assistance conference in Reno, Nevada, and will be featured at a similar conference in Charleston, South Carolina, in October.