Southeastern Idaho Public Health

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention

Positive Communication with Your Teen
Positive Communication with Your Teen
It is essential for parents to communicate openly with their teens and show them love and reassurance. Yes, your teen may shy away, but don't give up!
Risk Factors for Teenage Pregnancy
Risk Factors for Teenage Pregnancy
During 2001 in Idaho, 2,580 pregnancies were reported in Idaho among females 15-19 years of age. Out of these, 63% were out of wedlock.
Impacts of Teen Pregnancy
Impacts of Teen Pregnancy
Adolescent pregnancies carry health, social, and economic costs, not only for the mother and child, but for the whole community.
Reducing the Risk
Reducing the Risk
This program is a classroom-based 16 session comprehensive sexual health education curriculum that focuses on prevention of teen pregnancy, STIs, and HIV.

To decrease teen pregnancies in Idaho, Southeastern Idaho Public Health utilizes the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (APP) program to teach Reducing the Risk (RTR) curriculum in local high schools. APP aims to provide youth and their parents access to comprehensive sexual health education, which studies find helps teens delay sexual activity and use condoms and birth control correctly to avoid sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and pregnancy.

Teen Pregnancy Facts
  • Approximately 614,000 girls became pregnant in the United States in 2010.
  • The US has the highest rate of teen pregnancy among developed nations.
  • Taxpayers spend over $9.4 billion a year to cover the social costs of adolescent pregnancy.
  • 3 in 10 girls become pregnant at least once before the age of 20.
  • 50% of all sexually transmitted infections occur in people age 24 and younger.
  • One quarter of all new HIV infections in the US are in the 13-20 age group.
  • Less than 40% of teen mothers receive a high school diploma.
  • Sons of teen mothers are more likely to end up behind bars as are other young men.
  • Daughters of teen moms are 3 times more likely to become teen mothers themselves (compared to mothers who had a child are age 20-21).
  • 39% of Idaho students have ever had sexual intercourse.

To obtain information on teen pregnancy prevention, contact SIPH’s Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program Coordinator, LeAnne Salinas , at 478-6315 or visit these informational links.

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Sub Menu
Positive Communication
Risk Factors
Impacts of Teen Pregnancy
Reducing the Risk
  Links/Downloads

Links & Downloads

Name
  Idaho Teen Pregnancy
  The Naked Truth
  Teen Source
  Don’t Tell My Parents
  2013 Idaho Youth Risk Behavior Survey
  AACAP: When children have children
  Idaho Health and Welfare
  LARC (CDC)
  CDC Teen Pregnancy
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