What are the positive factors that are contributing to you reaching your desired result?

• Hope Center: work with parenting teens, provide pregnancy resources at no cost
• New Life: connection with pregnant teens through guidance counselor
•  Sex education in schools: Abstinence based

What are the negative factors that are restricting you from reaching your desired result?

• COVID-19: Limited/Lack of Contact, limited to no access to sex education in school districts
• Access to free birth control: families have trouble finding condoms or other birth control solutions at an affordable rate
• Abstinence Only Classes: Sex education in schools limited to abstinence without other forms of birth control

What populations are the most disadvantaged and what causes these disparities?

• Unsupervised teens: (Parents working, single-parent households, etc.)
• Poverty/Low-Income: limited resources, generational poverty
•  Rural population: far away from resources and education on sex

Are there foreseeable factors that will affect your work over the next few months to a year?

• Continued time away from school (Quarantine Babies)
• Social media: access to sexual content at earlier ages

What additional research is needed to better understand the factors that influence the slope of the curve and related disparities? 

• The outcome/study of having mentors in schools who were teen parents
• What is the effectiveness of abstinence based education versus safe sex education?
• Giving educators access to Date Rape and Intimate Partner Violence training and education

Who are the partners who can help you reach your desired outcome? List partners and their roles.

• Growing Together Program, The New Life Program, The Hope Center
• School districts, educators, teachers
• Collaboration with medical professionsals, WIC/PEDIA
• Salvation Army, Compassion Corsicana: access to a large number of clients
• Churches: Teaching youth sex education, effects on mental, spiritual, emotional health. Teaching about signs of teen dating violence, sexual abuse, rape, etc. 
• Medical Professionals: OBGYNs, Pediatricians, Family Physicians, etc.
• Parents, teenagers, and family: speaking to youth about safe and healthy sex. 

Research/Evidence-Based Practices:

• Access to affordable birth control
•  Teaching about safe sex and birth control in schools
• Mentoring

Low Cost/No Cost Solutions:

• Collaborating with schools (trainings): VOICE, Hope Center, etc.
• Texas Wear Condoms program: Providing free condoms and distributing them across the county
• AdvocatesForYouth.org: Advocating for sex education

Innovative/Out-the-Box Solutions: 

• Advocating to legislature for realistic sex education courses
• Holding and implementing sex education courses
• Educating parents on how to have "the talk"
• Free daycare for high school students who are parenting

Additional Research:

• Do a Landscape Analysis of exisiting programs/curriculum in our county on sex education
• What are the benefits to separating genders for sex education?
•  What education is happening for our LGBTQ+ students?