Building Healthy Teen Relationships and Reproductive Practices to Increase Intervals Between Pregnancies

The major objective of this program is to test the effectiveness of a community based intervention for minority teen mothers. The primary aim of the project is to: Evaluate the effectiveness of a community based intervention for minority teen mothers, with the primary purpose of increasing the inter-pregnancy interval to greater than 24 months. The secondary aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of a community based intervention for minority teen mothers, with a secondary purpose of improving knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, relationships and connectedness generally understood to be related to length of inter-pregnancy intervals.