Children's Aid Society Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program

The Children’s Aid Society Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program has enjoyed over ten years of success and counting. While we never equate our program as a quick-fix to the issue of adolescent pregnancy, we do like to measure our success. In addition to the following article, the most up-to-date articles can be viewed on the Children’s Aid Society web site.

High Graduation and College Admission Results

Philliber Reaserch Associates

Data from a special follow-up survey of 449 of the 598 program and control teens in the New York Program sites who were eligible to graduate by June 2004 show the following…

Significantly more of the program students had graduated from high school or obtained a GED, and

Significantly more were enrolled in college.





		High Graduation and College Admission Results Philliber Reaserch Associates

		Dr. Michael Carrera to Receive Richard Cross Award from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School The Children's Aid Society

		Sex Ed Program Aimed At Brains Houston Chronicle

		Abstinence-Only for Teenagers: A Pipe Dream The Wall Street Journal

		Abstinence Isn't the Only Way USA Today

		Program Finds Success in Reducing Teenage Pregnancy The New York Times

		Carrera Model Program creator speaks at GC&SU; The Union-Recorder

		Baltimore Experiences Lowest Teen Birth Rate in City History Baltimore Health Department
		Abstinence-Only for Teenagers: A Pipe Dream The Wall Street Journal





					Hopeless to Industrious

					Individual Sports

					President Clinton Thanks Dr. Carrera

					Mother of All Wars

					Above the Waist Approach




		2/3 of graduating seniors have had sex

		1 million teens a year get pregnant

		1 in 4 new STDs occur in adolescents


		Teen pregnancies cost U.S. taxpayers $7 billion a year