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While the Adults are Arguing, the Teens are Getting Pregnant: Overcoming Conflict in Teen Pregnancy Prevention is a new publication from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. Developed by the Campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values, the publication outlines what lies behind political, ideological and theological controversy and suggests ways to forge effective coalitions without requiring different groups to yield on essential beliefs. National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2100 M Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20037.

Sex, Etc., a newsletter published by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is a timely, readable, and potentially potent set of messages written by and for teens. With foundation and corporate support, more than 400,000 copies are distributed free to adults who work with teens in schools and community-based organizations in 49 states. An excellent discussion guide accompanies the newsletter. Network for Family Life Education, Rutgers, the State University, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854.

Urban Trends, a quarterly newsletter of MEE Productions, is a practical tool designed to help the reader understand, target, and serve urban African Americans and other minority consumers. Socially responsible, research-based communication strategies are presented, with a special focus on low-income youth. Along with market research findings, Urban Trends reports on research culled from MEE's database of hundreds of print publications, reports and studies from foundations and government agencies. MEE Productions, 4601 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19139.

Ten Tips for Parents to Help their Children Avoid Teen Pregnancy not only gives specifics on how to implement each tip, but also presents a list of resources for parents. Excellent, concise, realistic. National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2100 M Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20037.

Pregnancy Basics 1998, from the publishers of Parenting magazine and the Literary Volunteers of America, Inc., is a complete guide to a healthy pregnancy. In language and pictures that communicate with teens as well as adults, this publication is one of the best of its kind. This Johnson and Johnson booklet is published by the Parenting Group, a division of Time Publishing Ventures, Inc., 1325 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019.

Communities Responding to the Challenge of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention is a five-volume series that encourages and assists communities to address adolescent sexuality in a balanced and realistic manner. Topics are: Mobilizing for Action; Building Strong Foundations, Ensuring the Future; Designing Effective Family Life Education Programs; Improving Contraceptive Access for Teens; and Linking Pregnancy Prevention to Youth Development. Advocates for Youth, 1025 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005.

Protecting Youth/Preventing AIDS: A Guide for Effective High School HIV Prevention Programs, is based largely on the experience of the New York City Public High Schools HIV/AIDS Education and Condom Availability Program, as well as a review of other HIV prevention programs for teens. The guide also reflects the findings of the Academy for Educational Development's three-year evaluation of the New York City program, which revealed that condom availability in schools does not increase sexual activity among teens, does increase condom use among sexually active teens, and that parents, educators and students strongly support the program. Academy for Educational Development, 100 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. Books addressed to teens to help them anticipate, manage, and learn by the many unexpected tasks, incidents, surprises, traumas-and pleasures-of early parenting are rare. Especially rare are books based on teens' own input, written in a style that captures their interest, and realistic in their expectations of teens' ability to implement suggestions. Morning Glory Press has recently released completely revised and updated versions of their Teens Parenting series of four books: Your Pregnancy and Newborn Journey: A Guide for Pregnant Teens by Jeanne Warren Lindsay and Jean Brunelli, PHN; Your Baby's First Year: A Guide for Teen Parents by Lindsay; The Challenge of Toddlers: Parenting Your Child From One to Three by Lindsay; and Discipline from One to Three: How Teen Parents Can Prevent and Deal with Discipline Problems with Babies and Toddlers by Lindsay and Sally McCullough. Morning Glory Press, 6595 San Haraldo Way, Buena Park, CA 90620.

PASHA Program Sourcebook provides in-depth descriptions of the 23 promising programs in PASHA (Program Archive on Sexuality, Health, and Adolescence). The Sourcebook offers practitioners a detailed look at what works to prevent pregnancy and STD/HIV/AIDS among teens. It presents each program's theoretical framework, target population, the schedule and overview of activities comprising the intervention, and implementation guidelines. A description of the original program evaluation is also presented. A practical resource for those interested in learning about and developing promising prevention programs. Sociometrics Corp., 170 State St., Suite 260, Los Altos, CA 94022-2812.

One of the most promising ways to help young people develop knowledge and skills in making moral choices is to make them aware of the effect the media has on their decisions. Books, CD Roms, videos, and curricula for teaching media literacy are proliferating, and we need a guide to selection of materials for use with youth of all ages. The Center for Media Literacy's new catalog, Essential Resources for K-12 Classrooms Media Education presents the newest and best materials with enough information about each to make selection easy. One of the newsiest items is a 45 minute documentary video program, Teen Sexuality in a Culture of Confusion. The film gets young people thinking and talking about how the media's messages about sex, love, beauty and the body impact their struggles for personal identity, sexual maturity and social growth, and shows them how to become more critical consumers of the mass media. A copy of the catalog may be obtained from the Center for Media Literacy, 4727 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 403, Los Angeles, CA 90010.

In order to help policymakers focus on the pressing need to evaluate abstinence education programs, the National Campaign has released Evaluating Abstinence-Only Interventions. It contains a set of recommendations about how to conduct the national evaluation of abstinence-only programs funded by the federal welfare reform act. The report also summarizes a meeting of experts convened by the National Campaign on the special methodological and political challenges involved in evaluating abstinence-only programs in general. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2100 M Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20037.