Characteristics of an Effective Community Teen Pregnancy Prevention Strategy

1. Community partners send a clear, consistent message about appropriate sexual behavior.
2. Community partners target the following teen sexual risk taking behaviors:
3. Community partners focus on risk and protective factors that influence risk taking behaviors. Click here to see a list of “Important Protective Factors and the Feasibility of Changing Them”.
4. Partners implement with fidelity programs that have been shown to be effective with similar populations of teens. Click here for fact sheets of effective programs.
5. Partners select or design programs that incorporate the characteristics of programs found to be effective for similar populations.  Click here to see the characteristics of effective programs.
6. If necessary, design new programs by completing the five activities used by designers of effective programs: