Make It Personal: (Unplanned)
Pregnancy Planning/Prevention Helps
Students Complete College
Yolanda Reyna, Palo Alto College
Chelsey Storin, The National Campaign to
Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
Tony Summers, Richland College
What We’ll Cover
• About The National Campaign
• Brief introduction to unplanned
pregnancy
• Make It Personal: College Completion
• How Richland College has addressed
the topic
• Palo Alto College’s projects
• Resources
About The National Campaign
• Non-profit, non-partisan organization, funded
mainly through private donations
• Research- and evidence-based
• Does not take a position on abortion
• Works with a variety of partners, including
policymakers, entertainment media, service
providers, colleges, and others
Myths about Unplanned Pregnancy
• Unplanned pregnancies mainly occur to teens
• If a woman has had an unplanned pregnancy,
she is more likely to know how to prevent one
in the future
• By the time they arrive at college, students
already know everything about how to prevent
pregnancy
• This topic does not belong in the classroom
Unplanned Pregnancies and Births
• 7 in 10 pregnancies to unmarried women ages
18–29 are unplanned
• Unplanned Pregnancy is on the rise among
those ages 20-24
• At community colleges, unplanned births
account for one in ten dropouts among female
students, and seven percent of dropouts overall
How much do you know?
Among couples who have sex regularly, what
percent will get pregnant within one year if they
use no birth control at all?
A. 15%
B. 33%
C. 60%
D. 85%
E. 97%
Make It Personal: College Completion
• Three-year national demonstration project
• Improve community college student retention
and success by addressing pregnancy planning,
prevention, and healthy relationships
• Funded by The National Campaign to Prevent
Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
• Managed by the American Association of
Community Colleges
Make It Personal: College Completion
• MIPCC Colleges
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Chattahoochee Technical College, GA
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Georgia Perimeter College, GA
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Mesa Community College, AZ
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Montgomery College, MD
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Palo Alto College, TX
• Curriculum-based strategy: service learning
• Replicable curricular content and materials developed
for use by other community colleges
• Pre/post-course surveys to track knowledge, attitudes,
behavioral intent, retention
Online Lessons
Lesson One: Why Should
You Care About Preventing
Unplanned Pregnancy?
Lesson Two: How Much Do
You Know About Sex and
Birth Control?
Lesson Three: Make a Plan
and Take Action
How much do you know?
True or false: It is necessary to "take a break" from
the Pill every couple of years.
A. True
B. False
Tony Summers
Vice President, Student Development
Richland College, TX
Yolanda Reyna
Co-Chair, Counseling and Support Services
Palo Alto College, TX
How much do you know?
True or false: An IUD (intrauterine device) can
only be used by women who have
already given birth.
A. True
B. False
Online Lessons
Features of the lessons:
• Stand alone
• Variety of content: videos,
websites, and interactive
self-checks and learning
activities and websites
• Flexible use
• Easy implementation
– Faculty do not have to invest
huge amounts of prep time or
become experts in the subject matter.
Other Resources
• Student Sex Life
• Bedsider
• Fact sheets
• Videos
StudentSexLife.org
Bedsider
Bedsider Materials
• Booklets
• Posters
• Brochures
• Postcards
• Videos
Thank you!
Chelsey Storin
Manager of College Initiatives
The National Campaign
cstorin@thenc.org
(202) 478-8519
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