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C.' Departmental efforts to reduce the unplanned, unwanted teenage preb- nancy rates in the county have become more focused and planned during the past six months. Initial groundwork has been laid for modest inter- vention. The nucleus for continued intervention in HX '79-'80 shall be a health education, positive prevention approach. The main thrust of the program will be. to reach teenagers in the community and provide them with accurate information, as well as to provide the support and skills neoPSSary to make responsible sexual decisions. 7n order to accom- plish these objectives and make a visable impact, it will be necessary - to provide i~ar more health education time.. Currently, the program sup __ ports forty hours a week of health education time. At least doubling this time will allow far..more.varied activities.and more continuity of. - __.-. efforts. It has been repeatedly proven that one-shot programs do not •' produce visable behavior differences. Thus, creating a department's .._ goal for teen services in FY '80. Detailed teen objectives are given in part II1, B. following. B. Male Involvement To date, program activities have focused very little on male involve- went. Participants attending patient education classes are encouraged to bring their partners to the clinic and informed that males are welcome in the classes ~ *~bers of the Family Planning Advisory Gouneil have also been encouraged to bring their partners and other male friends that may be interested in supporting and advising the program. A male student was recruited to serve on the Health Education Committee at Orange High which was responsible for the.develapment of.the Family Life Education - Curriculum. Additionally, male students were included in the questionaire developed to assess students health education needs. C. Famil Plannin Advisor Council The Orange County Family lanning Advisory Council has met three times during the first half of FY '79-'80. The council is still in the process of development. Membership tends to fluctuate from ane meeting to the next, which makes continuity and development of plans difficult. At pre- sent, the council can best be described as exploring its- perimeters. Council members have expressed a wide variety. of interests to address. Such interests include becoming familiar with clinic services, what's being done in the schools in the area of family life education, how to get more teenagers involved in the program, and rape crisis (the last meeting focused on this subject in depth). Objectives far the family planning advisory council for F'Y '79 --'80 appear under health education objectives. D. Patient Education tient education sessions held in conjunction with the clinic were first initiated with the special teen focus in October. Classes are orientational in nature and geared towards new patients. Information covered in the classes includes: defining family pllnning; review of the male and female reproductive organs, the menstrual cycle, how con- - ception occurs, contraception (all the methods of b.c. including natural family planning); and clinic procedures and policies. At the onset, classes held with the teen clinic were scheduled ftrom 3:u5 to 1+:30 p.m., once a month at each site. After teen clinic was