Teen pregnancy among Hispanics is rising in Montgomery County, bucking a countywide trend of falling birth rates.
The birth rate for Hispanic 15- to 17-year-olds was 39.7 births per 1,000 females in the period from 2007 to 2009 -- the most recent for which data is available. That is a jump from 33.3 births between 1996 and 1998 and only a slight drop from the 41.6 rate from 2006 to 2008, according to the Maryland Vital Statistics Administration
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/2011/09/pregnancy-rates-climb-montgomerys-hispanic-teens#ixzz1YtFkvFV2
Read the County Council Report here.
Dr. Amita Vyas, PhD, Assistant Professor and Director of the Maternal and Child Health Program, was recently awarded the Office of Adolescent Health, Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grant for $5 million over 5 years. The George Washington University Team, lead by Dr. Vyas and Dr. Susan Wood, will work in collaboration with the community partners including Identiy, Inc., Mary's Center, and TAYA in order to create an innovative teen pregnancy prevention program for Latino youth residing in Montgomery County, MD and Washington, D.C.
ReplyDeleteThe proposed program, Be Yourself/Sé tu mismo, is a 4 month after school program that combines an 8 week cultural- developmental- and theory-based curriculum with, a weekend retreat, social media/text messaging reinforcements, an individual action plan, case-management services, and informal group sessions.
Let's see the MOU that they have developed with Montgomery County Public Schools!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/publications/gwu-presentation.pdf.pdf