To take professional development a step further, the SC Campaign encourages training participants to work towards an Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Certificate, a non-credit professional certificate co-sponsored by the University of South Carolina. The SC Campaign is a provider of CHES Category I, Social Work, Licensed Counselor and Nursing continuing education hours.
As a compliment to SC Campaign trainings, technical assistance (TA) is also available by request. This includes onsite visits, phone or email contact and is available to any local organization or agency conducting teen pregnancy prevention programming in South Carolina. To ensure individualized support, a staff person is assigned to each region of the state. We can assist your staff with developing and improving your teen pregnancy prevention initiative, from the planning stage to the final evaluation.
Upstate: Meredith Talford Oconee, Pickens, Anderson, Abbeville, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union, Cherokee, York, and Chester
Midlands - Andrea Heyward McCormick, Greenwood, Edgefield, Saluda, Newberry, Aiken, Lexington, Fairfield, Richland, Calhoun, Kershaw, Lancaster, and Chesterfield
Pee Dee - Beth DeHart Sumter, Lee, Darlington, Marlboro, Dillon, Florence, Williamsburg, Marion, Georgetown, Horry
Lowcountry - Chris Rollison Orangeburg, Berkeley, Dorchester, Charleston, Colleton, Bamberg, Barnwell, Allendale, Hampton, Jasper, and Beaufort
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Teen pregnancy costs taxpayers in South Carolina over $197,000,000 per year.
1 in 3 girls in South Carolina will become pregnant before her 20th birthday.
Less than half of teen mothers in South Carolina graduate from high school.
Teens have higher rates of low birth weight babies and infant mortality than mothers in their 20s.
Only 51% of young women who become mothers as teens get their high school degree by age 22, compared to 89% of young women who were not teen parents.
52% of all mothers on welfare had their first child as a teenager.
Nearly 80% of fathers do not marry the teen mother of their child and pay less than $800 annually in child support.
Daughters of teen mothers are more likely to become teen mothers themselves, creating cyclical poverty over generations.
95% of South Carolinians rate teen pregnancy as an important problem in their community.
85% of South Carolinians support comprehensive sex education in schools
committed to SC communities this fiscal year to support local adolescent pregnancy prevention efforts.