WASHINGTON, Pa. — Pregnancies for girls in between the ages of 15 and 17 have actually dropped substantially because the begin of the Washington Good health System’s Teen Outreach regimen in 1989.
According to Mary Jo Podgurski, the director of the program, the pregnancy fee for that age group was 36 each 1,000 in 1989; it is now 12 each 1,000.
“I started functioning along with teen parents in ’70s. We got funding for it in the ’90s,” Podgurski said.
The educational regimen to stay clear of teen pregnancy, Actual Talk for Teens, is readily available to students in grades 6 with 12 in every school district in Washington County along with their parents’ permission. It reaches 232,000 teens annually, Podgurski said.
Podgurski said that this year there are 26 young parents eligible for higher school graduation in Washington County and 24 will certainly be marching along with their classes. The various other 2 need to be finishing graduation necessities over the summer and receiving their diplomas in August, giving the county a 100 percent graduation fee for pregnant teens. Podgurski said that nationally just 40 percent of pregnant teens graduate.
“They teach me every solitary day,” Podgurski said of the teens. “I don’t job along with teens, I serve them.”
Podgurski said the regimen is not judgmental and acknowledges that there are a wide number of circumstances that result in teen pregnancy and per teen in the regimen is treated along with respect.
“We now have actually several of our young parents that are operating services simply enjoy this,” Podgurski said.
Podgurski said one young woman, now in her 30s, has actually received her master’s extent in Social job and heads a teen pregnancy regimen in Indiana County.
Podgurski’s job was know Thursday by the Washington County commissioners, that proclaimed might Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month.
In various other matters, the commissioners likewise know the River Stewardship regimen in the Charleroi Location School District in which students have actually been conducting water top quality testing and habitat evaluation for 5 streams in the Reduced Monongahela Watershed.
The commissioners likewise approved the buy of playground tools for the county parks. The complete expenditure of the tools is $111,904 and it is being bought with the say ordering regimen utilizing gas and oil funds. The tools is being bought from Pete Jeffrey and Associates of Indianola and is expected to be installed by the end of summer. Different pieces of tools will certainly be added to per of the existing playgrounds at 10 Mile, Mingo and Cross Creek parks.
The commissioners likewise adopted a resolution supporting a Citizens Commission for Legislative Redistricting and Congressional Reapportionment to stay clear of gerrymandering. The resolution will certainly be sent to every one of members of the Pennsylvania legislature.
