(Posted 6-16-99)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TEEN PREGNANCY PREVENTION PROGRAM
HONORED BY NURSING ASSOCIATION
GREENSBORO -- College Bound Sisters, an adolescent pregnancy
prevention program based at The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, has been honored by the Association of Women's Health,
Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.
The program was awarded a certificate of recognition and
$1,500 for being an innovation in teen pregnancy prevention. Dr.
Rebecca Saunders, a UNCG associate professor of nursing and
co-director of College Bound Sisters, received the award June 15
during the association's 1999 convention in Chicago.
Started by Saunders and Associate Professor Hazel Brown three
years ago, the College Bound Sisters program focuses on girls who have
sisters who had a baby before age 18. Its purpose is to prevent the
girls from becoming pregnant like their sisters.
Through weekly meetings and activities, the program encourages
girls ages 12 to 17 to avoid pregnancy, graduate from high school and
go to college. The program puts $7 a week into a college fund for each
participant who remains non-pregnant and attends the meetings. The
money is released to the participants once they enroll in either a
two-year or four-year college.
This is the second honor for College Bound Sisters this year.
In March, the program received the 1999 Research Utilization Award
from Region Seven of Sigma Theta Tau International, the nursing honor
society.
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