Health Department Kicks Off Community-wide Effort to Help South Bronx Teens Make Healthy Choices about Sexual and Reproductive Health

Health Department Kicks Off Community-wide Effort to Help South Bronx Teens Make Healthy Choices about Sexual and Reproductive Health

April 14, 2014 The Bronx Teen Connection program is placing trained health educators in South Bronx high schools to provide information and referrals to teen-friendly reproductive and sexual health services. The program is also using an app that helps New York City teens connect to sexual health clinics. In 2012, as part of the Think Teen pregnancy prevention program, the Mobile County (Alabama) Health Department turned part of a pediatric clinic into a teen-friendly sexual and reproductive health clinic for adolescents only. The clinic increased hormonal contraception (pill, patch, ring, injectable) prescriptions to adolescent clients from 3.1% in 2012 to 12.8% in 2013. Interested in learning more about these efforts? Join tomorrow’s CDC Vital Signs Town Hall Teleconference on Preventing Teen Pregnancy in Younger Teens, April 15, 2014, 2–3 pm (EDT).

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