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Mission/Goals: The Maryland Healthy Teens and Young Adults Project (HTYA) is an innovative program designed to reach and serve young people at risk for unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections and other consequences of high risk behaviors. Service sites with a holistic approach to health care and community-based prevention efforts represent an enhancement of existing public health efforts.

Notes: This is a replica program of the successful Carrera Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program.

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Type of Evaluation: Experimental

Objective: The objective of the study was to determine if the Carrera Teenage Pregnancy Prevention program was successful in reducing adolescent pregnancy.

Impact/Outcomes: Gains in knowledge were significantly greater among program participants than among control group members. Females in the program were significantly more likely than those in the control group to say they had chosen not to have sex when pressured. Female program participants were significantly less likely than control group women to have ever had intercourse; and sexually experienced program females were significantly more likely than control group young women to have used a condom with a highly effective method at last intercourse. At the third-year follow-up, females in the program group had significantly lower rates of pregnancies and births than control group females. While male participants in the program also had significantly higher gains in knowledge than controls, the other positive sexual and reproductive outcomes found among women were not evident among men. Program participants of both genders were significantly more likely than control group participants to report five, or four of the five, desirable health care outcomes.