Keeping the Promise
As one of the nation’s largest and oldest community-based organizations, The Children’s Aid Society (CAS) helps children in poverty succeed and thrive by providing comprehensive supports to children and their families. Today, the Children’s Aid Society touches the lives of more than 100,000 children and families each year. One of their signature programs is the CAS-Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program (CAS-Carrera), a holistic model that helps young girls and boys avoid becoming parents during the second decade of their lives.
About one-third of teen girls in the US get pregnant by age 20 and there were about 420,000 births to teens in 2004, costing taxpayers $9.1 billion. Based on random control studies, CAS-Carrera program participants had one-third the odds of becoming pregnant as participants in the control group and statistically significant lower rates of sexual activity, violent behavior and alcohol use. The program has been implemented in New York, Michigan, Ohio and Washington, DC. New programs will begin in August 2011 in Illinois, Georgia, Delaware, West Virginia, Florida and New Jersey.
The Sheridan Group is working with the Children’s Aid Society to hone their government relations strategy and identify high opportunity activities to move the organization’s agenda forward. One key element of this strategy is promoting the evidence-based results of programs such as the CAS-Carrera Program and taking this model to national scale. This year, the federal Department of Health and Human Services identified this program as one of the leading adolescent pregnancy prevention programs in the nation.
Project Director: Allen Todd
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