Dear Friend, Have you heard the news? Love Notes, a robust relationship skills curriculum, has earned a place on the Office of Adolescent Health’s (OAH) list of evidence-based Teen Pregnancy Prevention programs! It is one of only six programs to be proven effective in preventing pregnancy and the only one on the list that uses adolescent romantic relationship development as its theory of change. A federally funded random control study by researchers at the University of Louisville found that at-risk high school participants were significantly less likely to become pregnant or cause a pregnancy at twelve months after instruction than those who participated in a traditional pregnancy prevention program. Take a look at the Issue Brief on the topic.
Love Notes is geared towards older teens and young adults who are at risk of an unplanned pregnancy, troubled relationships, or who are already pregnant or parenting.
The program aims to help young people make wise relationship and sexual choices—choices that will help them, rather than create barriers, for achieving their education, employment, relationship, and family goals.
While focusing heavily on healthy relationship concepts and skill building, Love Notes also incorporates significant content on sexual decision-making, medically accurate STI and contraception information, pacing of relationships, and violence prevention. As such, it represents an innovative approach to pregnancy prevention.
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