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e:)C..) C) O C) <br /> Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> Resolution for Official Endorsement of the TEEN VOICES Peer Education Program <br /> WHEREAS, the TEEN VOICES Peer Education Program is an adolescent pregnancy <br /> prevention and youth development program, sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Orange <br /> and Durham Counties; and <br /> WHEREAS, TEEN VOICES empowers teenagers to make responsible choices based on <br /> their own ethics and values, by providing them with medically accurate, factual <br /> information; and <br /> WHEREAS, TEEN VOICES Peer Educators receive 40 hours of training on a variety of <br /> teen health and social concerns, and then share this information with friends, family, and <br /> community members; and <br /> WHEREAS, TEEN VOICES began as a pilot program in Durham County, training 45 <br /> Peer Educators who will potentially educate over 1,350 members of the community <br /> between March 2000 and March 2001; and <br /> WHEREAS, Planned Parenthood of Orange and Durham Counties is now applying for <br /> funding from the North Carolina Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program to expand <br /> peer education programming to Orange County; and <br /> WHEREAS, Planned Parenthood of Orange and Durham Counties hope to partner with <br /> other Orange County human services organizations in providing Peer Educator training <br /> and referrals; and <br /> WHEREAS, the United States still leads the industrialized world in teen pregnancy and <br /> birth rates, despite recently declining rates; and <br /> WHEREAS, adolescent pregnancy in North Carolina cost North Carolina taxpayers <br /> $807,800,000 in Fiscal Year 1997; and <br /> WHEREAS, Orange County's 1999 rate of adolescent pregnancy per 1,000 15-19 year <br /> old girls was 35.9, according to the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North <br /> Carolina. <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of <br /> Commissioners endorses Planned Parenthood of Orange and Durham Counties' proposal <br /> to the North Carolina Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, because the TEEN <br /> VOICES Peer Education Program will serve our high school students and partner with <br /> area human services organizations in an effort to continue reducing the rate of adolescent <br /> pregnancy in Orange County. <br /> �ff/j <br /> This is the P <br /> day of October 2000. <br /> r"AWW" <br /> Mos;s Carey, Jr. Chair <br /> i A inn 1 -Z, <br />