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| Community Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Grant Program Update The Department of Human Services is currently
seeking proposals from qualified collaborative entities to provide
comprehensive adolescent pregnancy prevention projects for the Community
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (CAPP) program of the Iowa Department
of Human Services (Department). ______________________________________________ First-ever Congressional Hearing on Abstinence-only Programs The first-ever congressional oversight hearing focusing on domestic abstinence-only programs was held on April 23, 2008. The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman, held the hearing titled “Domestic Abstinence-Only Programs: Assessing the Evidence.” Testimonies by Dr. John Santelli and Shelby Knox can be found here. FutureNet submitted a statement for the record for the hearing. ______________________________________________ Plans Sought to Curb Teen Girls' High STD Rate Adolescent women have a high rate of sexually transmitted infections, and preventing these diseases needs to be an important public health goal, according to a paper presented by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers at the April 2008 National STD Prevention Conference.
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| May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month A definitive downward trend in the nation’s teen pregnancy rate between 2002 and 2004 was recently announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. Iowa is following those trends. Our state stats show that in 2006, 3500 teens in Iowa became parents, that’s down from 4000 in 1996. We are pleased with the decline over the past ten years, we still have a lot of work to do to continue to reach teens and keep those numbers dropping. ___________________________________________ Teen Pregnancy Rates The teen pregnancy rate in the United States continued to decline between 2002 and 2004, according to data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. The teen pregnancy rate (girls aged 15-19) declined 5% between 2002 and 2004. Click here to view the National Campaign’s April 2008, press release. ___________________________________________ 2008 FutureNet Congratulations to Landon
Bauer from Ogden High School and Jordan
Gallmeyer from Oelwein Community High School for submitting
the winning entries for the 2008 Student Art Contest. Landon
and Jordan will each receive a $100 gift certificate.
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