TEEN FUTURES, through its nine years of delivering “Baby, Let’s Wait!” interventions to high school students enrolled in health education classes, has accomplished the following activities with its teen-aged participants and a staff of four program facilitators in the classroom:
• assignment of the "virtual baby” infant simulator over 1430 times to students, in two individual sessions with each one, talking with them about their lives, assessing teen parenthood risk and validating their feelings, thoughts, dilemmas, choices.
• phone interviews with 1220 parents about their teen son’s or daughter’s experience with the infant, sending out 1260 parent satisfaction surveys and now serving siblings of the original participants.
• 1868 small group discussions, helping teens feel heard about their beliefs, opinions, feelings; discussing behavior/consequences and teen parent statistics.
• Four required meetings for parents to role-played their own teen in “How to talk with your teen about sex” after watching a video.
• one radio interview on KPCC, one television talk show appearance on local public access, one short national radio interview on CBS heard across the nation and seven articles/pictures in The Star News, Pasadena Weekly and Pasadena Journal. • 40 field trips to our mentors' places of work, in groups of 3 to 30 (hospitals, child care centers, fire and police stations, Caltech, Edelman Children's Court., KPCC, veterinary hospitals, cosmetology salons, PCC, culinary institutes and restaurants, local businesses, etc.) • 193 juniors and seniors visiting 85 different job shadowing sites for a day. • 18 participants completing a video drama with teens telling their stories with the help of the Digital Video Workshop of Albuquerque. • 33 group field trips of 9th and 10th graders to the Huntington Hospital neonatal intensive care unit to see problem babies and hear about risks of early parenthood. • three student-initiated “retreats” to Eaton Canyon Nature Center during school taking 85 teens not served by the BLW program to experience a “mini BLW program” created by BLW teens. • Our first Peer2Peer tutoring and mentoring project: Teen Males Tutor Middle School Males for 12 weeks with third tier of adult mentors, members of DADS For Education. • thousands of "tests:" 7292 teen pre/post questionnaires we create, 2050 client satisfaction surveys and 1470 pre/post-surveys required by the state to assure we meet our goals, 1240 parent surveys and 400 new pre/post group skills self-assessment forms. • MOST IMPORTANT, an over 80% decline in pregnancies reported to the school nurse: 24 reported in 1996-97; 17 in 1997-98; 17 in 1998-99, 11 in 2000, 9 in 2001, 10 in 2002, 3 in 2003 at Pasadena High School. |
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