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November 17, 2008 | Program Result Report
From 1999 to 2007, Girls Incorporated and Mathematica Policy Research (under a subcontract) designed and conducted an evaluation of Will Power/Won't Power, a pregnancy prevention program for girls ages 12 to 14.
January 1, 2008 | Book
In addition to providing insights about reducing teenage pregnancy, this chapter traces the evolution of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's efforts over a 20-year period to address this potentially controversial issue.
October 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
East Side House, Inc., a social services agency in the Bronx, N.Y., replicated its Community-Based Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, developed in 1997 in collaboration with Planned Parenthood of New York City.
National Program
Program to improve the health and safety of young people in urban areas by improving collaboration among youth-serving agencies and organizations.
July 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Starting in January 1997, the National Council on the Aging, Washington, implemented the first initiative in the country to match older adults with young people in a pregnancy prevention project.
January 29, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Princeton Center for Leadership Training, in collaboration with HiTOPS Clinical Services and the Network for Family Life Education at Rutgers University, established programs in five New Jersey cities.
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This study specifically looked at cross-sectional data of teens aged 10 to 18 from Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Richmond, Va. SAY sampling generated 1,723 telephone interviews with parents in the four cities.
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Despite national prosperity which improved health outcomes for urban children from 1992-2002, disparities between children in distressed versus non-distressed cities, and between Black versus White urban children, did not improve.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article highlights the Urban Health Initiative's integrated evaluation design, bringing together a theory of change and a quasi-experimental approach, including comparison city usage.
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This paper looks at the issues of obesity, race and gender, and determines whether school environment influences body mass index (BMI) and whether the racial and gender context one grows up in may also end up affecting BMI.