1. Chelsea Larsen

2.  30 hours of TV a week
 73% use social networks
 94% use Internet

3.  Whether by television, internet
searches, or social networking, teens
can learn about their own sexual
health as it pertains to relationships,
pregnancy and birth control, and
sexually transmitted disease.

4. Teen pregnancy is 100% avoidable

5. “The more you know about issues like
sex…the better prepared you will be to
make informed choices for your future”.
-The National Campaign

6.  These shows depict
the trial that young
teens go through in
pregnancy, birth,
and caring for a
child.

7.  “The impact of
strong pregnancy
prevention
messages directed
to teenagers has
been credited with
the birth rate
declines”.
-The National Survey of
Teen birth rates have Family Growth
dropped 44% from 1991.

9. • Storyline shows the
conflicts of teenage love
that can often occur.
Lessons can be learned by
watching Boy Meets World.

10. “Media has played a huge role in the way
society views gender and how they create what
we know to be cultural ‘norms’ and standards”.
-Lesley Perry

11. On Good Morning America, teens
had escaped life in an abusive
relationship. The progression of
abuse, the warnings, and the
signs were all discussed.

12. “The major challenge of
young adulthood is intimacy
versus isolation…Failure to
form an intimate partnership
with someone else can cause
a young adult to feel painfully
lonely and incomplete”.

14.  24% of sexually active
teens have multiple
partners
 20 known types
of STI’s
 65 million people
infected

15. The Public Health
Commission has
created a Facebook
page which links kids
to informative
information using
YouTube video
messages. Many
other companies are
doing this as well.

16. “STIs are entirely preventable…it
is critically important that we
create an environment where
young people can start to have
conversation about the fact that
this is not OK”.

17.  The Kaiser Family
Foundation report
that, “822,000 calls
were completed to a
hotline through MTV.
Of thee, 336,000 calls
were transferred to the
Center for Disease
Control and Prevention
for more information”.

18. With 46% of teens admitting
to being sexually active, there
has never been a greater need
to educate and inform about
the risks of pregnancy and
STI’s as well as the forming of
relationships, both healthy
and unhealthy.

19. Knowledge if power.
The power to learn and grow.
The power to protect oneself.

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