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Collaboration, adaptation and staying power: Maine's teen pregnancy prevention success story
Maine's success in decreasing its teen pregnancy rate is the result of a collaborative, multifaceted, long-term approach incorporating adaptations based on new research and best practices. Examples of this are the Family Planning Association of Maine's transition to evidenced based pregnancy prevention programs in Maine schools and the promotion of long-acting reversible contraceptive methods among teens among Maine's family planning providers.
Through a combination of pro-active legislation, comprehensive sexuality education, accessible clinical services and online resources, Maine has developed a broad approach to teen pregnancy prevention. Partners in this collaborative effort have included family planning providers, local school departments, local and national funders,school-based health centers and rural federally-qualified health centers. Both the Maine Department of Education and Maine CDC have been active partners with the Family Planning Association of Maine in working to reduce Maine's teen pregnancy rate.
This presentation will describe Maine's collaborative process for addressing teen pregnancy, demonstrate how success comes through long-term commitment and list specific adaptations Maine has made to clinical services and educational programs, in order to keep abreast of new research and best practices.
Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programsAdministration, management, leadership
Advocacy for health and health education
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Program planning
Public health or related public policy
Learning Objectives:
Describe Maine's collaborative process for addressing teen pregnancy.
Demonstrate how success comes through long-term commitment.
List specific adaptations Maine has made to clinical services and educational programs, incorporating new research and best practices.
Keyword(s): Family Planning, Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Evelyn is Senior Vice President of Program Services at the Family Planning Association of Maine. She has been involved in family planning, clinical care, program planning and evaluation, grants management and quality assurance for over 20 years. She is on the board of Medical Care Development and a member of the Community Advisory Board for the Maine Health Access Foundation. Evelyn is board certified as an OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner and a Family Nurse Practitioner.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.