Community Teaching Work Plan (Benchmark)

Community Teaching Work Plan (Benchmark)

Area # 6 Learning Theory and Goals - Primary Prevention of Pregnancy

The problems and scope of teenage girls' and boys' pregnancy are far-off reaching. Social workers need a teaching plan and strategies to assist adolescents avoid unwanted and early pregnancy. This paper provides a community teaching work plan for primary prevention of pregnancy.

Approximately three-quarters of a million teenage individuals not more than 20 years old become pregnant, each year, in the USA. This huge figure results in highest rate of teenage pregnancy of a developed country. Solomon-Fears (2011) affirm that in 2009, teenage births accounted for 10.1% out of all births and 21.4% out of all non-martial births, in the USA. The good news is that this birth rate declined in 2008 and 2009 as compared to the increased rate in 2006 and 2007. However, it is still higher relatively the teenage birth rate of majority of developed countries. In this situation of dilemma, the major goal is to reduce long-term consequences related to teenage births and pregnancy, which include the deterrence of out-of-wedlock and teenage childbearing.

Primary prevention associated with teenage pregnancy is intended to adjourning initial intercourse. Its focal point is on educating and empowering teens. Primary prevention can be utilized by educating teens about consequences and risks of sex, which include STD's (sexually transmitted disease) and pregnancy. Teens can be further empowered by making emergency contraception and contraceptives effortlessly accessible. Lavin & Cox (2012) state that access to information is critical for teenage people who wish to avoid pregnancies. Parents must also correspond to their adolescent children about sex. Involvement of parents play crucial role in programs reducing teenage pregnancy.

While analyzing statistical figures of different communities in the USA, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2013) have founded that ...