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There is a crisis of silence in our community. This silence is due in part to the lack of communication between parents or caregivers and the teens in their care. Silence is also due to the lack of advocacy for the health care system to provide appropriate comprehensive teen-friendly health care to every DC teen.PPEM2.jpg

DC Campaign is working to shatter the silence and bring the conversation about comprehensive teen-friendly health care to the forefront of issues for parents, schools, health care providers, religious institutions and local government. DC Campaign is changing the conversation about teens from discussions that blame and shame teens to positive discussions about what adults must provide young people to become healthy, productive adults.

(right) At the workshop participants take the pledge to make teen pregnancy a thing of the past.
A recent report from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy found that both teens and parents agree that parents often have more impact on a teen’s decision regarding sexual activity than a teen’s peers. All of the DC teen groups we talked with told us that they want earlier, more accurate and more comfortable conversations and guidance from their parents about sex, sexual responsibility and the consequences of sex.
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