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An exhibition featuring a photographic series by local artist Graeme King to raise consciousness around Teen Pregnancy Awareness & Prevention Month and to recognize the hardworking, local youth who have committed to being attentive and loving parents.

Performances by Running: AMOK & SOL SPOKEN Followed by a Panel Discussion PANELISTS

Margaux Delotte-Bennett (Moderator) P.O.W.E.R. Director | Sasha Bruce YouthWork

Khadijah Ali Coleman

Playwright | ‘Running: AMOK’

Tim Thomas

Peer Educator | Sasha Bruce YouthWork

Ruth Rich

Health Education Manager | Healthy Babies Project

Brenda Rhodes Miller

Founding Executive Director | DC Campaign to Prevent Pregnancy

SILENT AUCTION

to benefit Sasha Bruce Youthwork

Friday | May 13, 2011 | 7-9 pm

North Hall at the Eastern Market, Washington DC

For more information, contact Mary Beth Brown Marye.brown@dc.gov | T 202.724.5613

This project is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities

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Parents should be‌ postponed The daughters of young teen mothers are three times more likely to become teen mothers themselves when compared to mothers who had a child at age 20-21 (Hoffman, S.D., 2006).

Children of teen mothers do worse in school than those born to older parents—they are 50 percent more likely to repeat a grade, are less likely to complete high school than the children of older mothers, and have lower performance on standardized tests (Hoffman, S.D., 2006), (Kirby, D., 2002).

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8 out of 10 teenage

pregnancies are not planned (Finer & Henshaw, 2006).

Almost 50 percent of teens have never considered about how a pregnancy would affect their lives (Albert, B. 2007).

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prepared Teen Pregnancy is 100% avoidable – either young people should not have sex or they should use any variety of birth control methods carefully, correctly and consistently.

Pregnant teens are far less likely to receive timely and consistent prenatal care than those who get pregnant at a later age (March of Dimes, 2004).

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Parents should be…

P.O.W.E.R.ful

There are a number of community resources to help teen parents succeed: D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: New Heights www.dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/In+the+Classroom/ Health+and+Wellness#5 HEALTHY BABIES PROJECT www.healthybabiesproject.org MARY’S CENTER www.maryscenter.org/teens.html CHILDREN’S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Generations Program www.childrensnational.org/DepartmentsandPrograms/ default.aspx?Id=280&Type=Program&Name=Teena ge%20Pregnancy%20Program%20%28Generations%29 WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER, Teen Alliance for Prepared Parenting www.teenparentsdc.org SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK, POWER Program www.sashabruce.org/programs/show/healthy-lives/ power-program

n mainstream media, the images of teen parents often range from the understated to the exaggerated. What results are stereo types of class, race and maturity: depictions of absentee teen fathers and overwhelmed teen mothers. This series of intimate portraits indicates there is something more – an opportunity to relate to the rich complexity of the parental experience.

Through the subjects’ individual realities, this exhibition fosters dialogue about family relationships, sex education, and the day-to-day difficulties of our city’s young parents.

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Š All rights reserved by Graeme King, 2010

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