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LINKS & CONNECTIONS - Preventing Teen Pregnancy
Teen Pregnancy
Prevention Programs
Children's National Medical Center
The Children's National Medical Center is the site of the Generations
program, a comprehensive health care center for young parents
and their children. They provide psychosocial services, employment
counseling, parenting education, and nutritional support for
adolescents and their children.
DC Wheel Productions/Dance Place Dance
Dance Place is a professional theater, training facility, and community resource
serving the nation's capital and beyond. They run the Energizers Program, an
after-school and summer youth program designed to foster community service, lifeskills
development and sexual responsibility.
The Empower Program
Working through partnerships with schools and local organization, The Empower
Program works with youth to end gender-based violence. Their goal is to empower
all young people to understand their power and role in preventing gender-based
violence, and to give them the skills and knowledge to make healthy decisions
for themselves.
Latin American Youth Center
The Latin American Youth Center's mission is to support youth and families in
their determination to live, work and study with dignity, hope and joy. It is
home to The Next Step Public Charter School, an alternative high school for parenting
and at-risk teens.
Life Pieces to Masterpieces
Life Pieces to Masterpieces engages and supports male youth from Washington,
DC in artistic, educational and other experiences to discover their creative
ability to transform challenges into possibilities.
Mary's Center for Maternal & Child
Care, Inc.
The Center's mission is to provide holistic and culturally responsive health
care to women and their families. Their teen program provides adolescents with
primary healthcare services, pregnancy prevention counseling, and education services.
Men Can Stop Rape
Men Can Stop Rape empowers male youth and the institutions
that serve them to work as allies with women to prevent rape and other forms
of men's violence. They provide workshops, training, and consultations on multiple
topics around male responsibility and sexual violence.
Metro TeenAIDS
Metro TeenAIDS provides resources to help young people fight AIDS and support
each other. Unlike any other organization in the Washington, DC are, Metro TeenAIDS
focuses all of its efforts on the special prevention education and treatment
needs of young people.
Network for Family Life Education
The Network for Family Life Education launched SEX, ETC., an award winning sexuality
and health online newsletter written by teens for teens. They address questions
on love, sex, abstinence, contraception, AIDS, STDs, drugs, drinking, and violence.
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington provides comprehensive health care
services, education and counseling, family planning, teen pregnancy prevention
programs, breast and cervical cancer screening, and HIV/AIDS testing and counseling
throughout the Washington metropolitan area.
Washington Hospital Center
The Washington Hospital Center is a community based medical center providing
secondary pregnancy prevention through the Teen Alliance for Prepared Parenting
(TAPP) program serving pregnant and parenting teens in four high-risk communities
in the District of Columbia.
Links Menu:
- Anacostia River
- Preventing Teen Pregnancy
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