Preventing Teen Pregnancy

Speaker:
Premini Sabaratnam, MPH, Sr. Health Project Coordinator, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Univ. of Rochester

Program Description:
Although teen pregnancy rates have shown some dramatic decreases in the last decade, teen pregnancy rates remain high especially among certain populations of youth. Premini Sabaratnam will present evidence-based elements of programs that have shown success in reducing teen pregnancy rates with special emphasis on youth development approaches that develop social connections, character and competence and give teens more hope for the future. Ms. Sabaratnam, MPH, is the Senior Health Project Coordinator with the Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Rochester. She has worked extensively with adolescent populations and offers first hand insights into what works and what doesn’t work with teen programs.

Objectives:
As a result of this program, participants will be able to:

• Describe at least two elements of successful teen pregnancy prevention programs.

Satellite broadcast originally aired February 19, 2004.

For the purposes of providing continuing education credits, this program was reviewed in October, 2007 and renewed until October 2009.

School of Public Health, University at Albany, is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This activity has been assigned code 6VKSFE-PRV-06-074a and has been approved for 1.0 contact hour.

School of Public Health, University at Albany is accredited by the MSSNY to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. The School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s).TM Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity is sponsored by the School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for the CHES to receive 1.0 Category 1 CECH in health education.