What Works to Prevent Pregnancies and Births:
Community Volunteer Service Learning Programs

The Teen Outreach Program is a school-based program for male and female high school aged adolescents in grades 9 through 12. This program has been implemented in 13 states across the country. The main goals of the program are to prevent school failure and adolescent pregnancies. Programs are run for the full academic year and are composed of a classroom discussion and participation component, in combination with an after-school supervised community volunteer experience. Program costs range from $100 to $700 per student, depending on whether program facilitators are volunteers and if the site space is donated. Training costs were $595 per person, which includes the curriculum ($295 on its own). An experimental evaluation of the Teen Outreach Program from 1991 to 1995 shows that teens from all racial/ethnic groups and socioeconomic status groups who participated in the program had a reduced likelihood of teen pregnancies, school suspension and course failure during the time the program was run.


 
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