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Epp <br />0C <br />BOARD OF DIRECTORS: <br />Officers: <br />PRESIDENT <br />E. Joyce Roland, R.N., M.S.N. <br />VICE PRESIDENT <br />Jean Smith, M.D. <br />Laura E. Torlan <br />SECRETARY <br />Dana Baldwin <br />TREASURER <br />Sue Baker <br />MEMBERS: <br />Barbara Barnes <br />Dot Carey <br />Eliska Chanlett <br />Brenda Crowder -Gaines <br />Julie L. DeClerclue, Dr.Ph.H. <br />Deborah J. Dotters, M.D. <br />George P. Doyle <br />Laurie Farb, R.N., P.H.N. <br />Dorothy Flapan <br />Sylvia Perloff Gelblum <br />Robin Gurlitz <br />Sue Harvin <br />Marcia Herman- Giddens <br />Shirley Jackson <br />Sue Levine <br />Susi Lieff <br />Irene Marsh <br />Elvira Mebane <br />William Floppy <br />Kate Resnick <br />Dorothy Rettig, B.Sc., M.Ed. <br />Michael J. Rosenberg, M.D., M.P.H. <br />Jane Satter, M.D. <br />Jeff Staych, M.A., P.A. -C. <br />Ann McIver Thomas <br />Donna L. Williams <br />Nancy E. Williamson, Ph:D. <br />Clara Yager <br />ADVISORY COMMITTEE: <br />Peg Bondurant, Chair <br />Bill Basnight <br />Martha Bransoombe, Ph.D. <br />Bonnie Davis <br />Julia Henderson, Ph.D. <br />The Reverend Dick Hildebrandt <br />Sally Jessee <br />Elizabeth McLellan <br />C. Arden Miller, M.D. <br />Ted Parrish, &P.H. <br />Linda Potter, Dr.P.H. <br />D. Malcolm Potts, M.D. <br />Mary D.B.T. Semans <br />The Reverend Robert Seymour <br />Adele Thomas <br />Dr. Bret & Julie Williams <br />EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: <br />Janet A. Colm, M.S.P.H. <br />MEDICAL DIRECTOR; <br />Melanie Mintzer, M.D. <br />COUNSEL TO THE BOARD: <br />John Runkle, Attorney at Law <br />DEC C 1 1390 2. <br />Planned Parenthood of Orange County, Inc.' <br />P,O. Box 3258 • Chapel Hill, N.C. 27515 -3258 <br />(919) 929 -5402 • 942- PPOC(7762) <br />December 19, 1990 <br />Dear HSAC Subcommittee Member: <br />We are writing to request a special contribution of $5000 <br />from Orange County to support a new teen pregnancy prevention <br />initiative, the Minority Involvement Project (MIP), in <br />subsidized housing communities in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. <br />The MIP addresses the serious problem of.unplanned pregna . <br />among minority teenagers in Orange County. In developing <br />program, we looked at these facts: <br />1. Minority females account for 19 percent of the total <br />female population in the county. <br />2. Minority teens do not account for the majority of the <br />teen pregnancies in Orange County but they are <br />disproportionately likely to become pregnant; roughly one - <br />third of pregnancies are among minority teens, the other two- <br />thirds are among white teens. <br />3. Black teens are also disproportionately likely to give <br />birth; over half of all teen births in Orange County are t <br />minority teens. <br />4. Younger minority teens are at particular risk of early <br />parenthood. <br />5. Minority teens in Orange County who give birth are <br />more likely to be unmarried than are white teens; 85 pe <br />of black teens who gave birth in 1986 were unmarried, <br />compared with 33 percent of white teens who gave birth. <br />6. A 1986 poll by Louis Harris and Associates found that <br />almost half of all teens . have sex by the time they are 17; <br />almost one - quarter of sexually active teens never use birtr <br />control. Minority teens are even more likely to have had s <br />and even less likely to use birth control than white teens. <br />7. The Harris Poll also found that those teens who tend t <br />begin sexual activity younger and not to use birth control <br />are those from families of lower socio- economic status, th <br />who have lower grades or do not go to school at all, those <br />