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s <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Resolution far 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 shaze 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 Mazch 2001; and <br />WHEREAS, Planned Pazenthood of Orange and Durham Counties is now applying for <br />funding from the North Cazolina Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program to expand <br />peer education programming to Orange County; and <br />WHEREAS, Planned Pazenthood 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 Cazolina taxpayers <br />$807,800,000 in Fiscal Yeaz 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 />Cazolina. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Orange County Boazd of <br />Commissioners endorses Planned Pazenthood 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 />azea human services organizations in an effort to continue reducing the rate of adolescent <br />pregnancy in Orange County. <br />This is the 3`~ day of October 2000. <br />Moses Cazey, Jr. Chair <br />