Welcome to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative of Jackson County's website.
Our mission is to reduce the teen pregnancy rate and address contributing factors for Jackson County's young people.
Did you know:
In Michigan, 54 teen girls get pregnant every day.
In Jackson County, at least one teen girl
gets pregnant every day.
In Michigan,
the average annual cost associated with a child born to a teen mother is $4,971. Sixty-five percent of these costs are paid
for by local taxpayers.
Fewer
than one-half of high school students have had sex.
95% of all teen pregnancies are unplanned.
80% of teen report feeling pressured to have sex.
Jackson County ranks 10th highest in the state of Michigan for teen rates of Chlamydia and 9th highest
for rates of Gonorrhea.
Nearly
20% of teen births in Jackson County are to mothers who already have one or more children.
The risk
of an African American teen getting pregnant is 2.5 times greater than a Caucasian teen in Jackson County.
"Hope is a powerful contraceptive.
The way that you help young people avoid pregnancy is by providing them with real evidence that good things can happen in
their lives."
