March Teen Pregnancy Task Force Meeting

The superintendents from each of the five counties in Northeast Florida (Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns) have been invited to attend the March meeting of the Teen Pregnancy Task Force. The meeting will be March 9 from 4-5:30 pm at the Shands Jacksonville Learning Resource Center -- Birch Cherry Room (653 W. 8th St., Jacksonville, FL 32209).

The following questions have been posed to the five districts:

1.     What do you think a school district’s role is in providing adolescent sexual health education and preventing teen pregnancy?

2.     What does your school district currently provide in terms of adolescent sexual health education and teen pregnancy prevention?

3.     What do you see as barriers to providing sex education and teen pregnancy prevention programs?

Teen Pregnancy -- Are safety net programs to blame?

The Week published an interesting story on the issue of teen pregnancy -- in part blaming safety net programs for enabling. Do you think safety net programs are part of the problem? Can they be part of the solution?

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