the national day to prevent teen pregnancy

The National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
National Day Information
2011 National Day Brochure

2011 National Day Partners

2011 National Day Partnership Form

2011 National Day Promotional Materials

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2011 National Day Activities

Frequently Asked Questions

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Parents | Teens

2010 National Day Overview

2010 National Day Activities



The tenth annual National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy will take place on May 4, 2011. On the National Day, teens nationwide will be asked to visit StayTeen.org to participate in a number of online activities – including our popular National Day Quiz – that deliver teen pregnancy prevention messages and challenge them to think carefully about what they might do “in the moment.” The message of the National Day is straightforward: Sex has consequences.

Organized by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, the National Day has widespread support from more than 200 national organizations and media outlets who serve as official National Day partners.



Why a National Day?
The extraordinary declines in teen pregnancy and childbearing over the past two decades have proven to cynics that progress can be made on tough issues. In fact, few social problems have improved quite as dramatically over the past 20 years as teen pregnancy.

The latest news on the teen pregnancy front has been positive. The U.S. teen birth rate declined 6% in 2009 – the most recent year for which data is available – and is now at a record low.

Despite this progress, it is still the case that 3 in 10 girls get pregnant by age 20. This suggests that we all need to continue helping teens postpone their families until they are older, through school, and in stable, committed relationships.

We hope that – in some modest way – the National Day will help teens think carefully about sex, relationships, contraception, the possibility of pregnancy, and the lifelong challenges of being a parent



Why a National Day?
Teens can support the National Day by simply logging onto StayTeen.org on May 4th (and throughout May) and participate in our online National Day activities, including the National Day Quiz. The online Quiz will be posted in both English and Spanish beginning on May 1, 2011 and will be available throughout May. Print versions of the Quiz will also be available. The National Day Quiz is appropriate for teens ages 13 and up.



Making a Difference
In 2010, more than 550,000 people participated in our online National Day activities – up from 450,000 in 2009. Participants were able to take the National Day Quiz, play the Stay Teen Block Party game, or enter the PSA Art Contest online. In addition, National Day Quiz discussion guides for parents and teens were available and were downloaded thousands of times.

Each year, we ask teens to tell us what they thought about the National Day Quiz in a post-quiz evaluation survey and many do. Among the findings from this year’s survey:

■77% said the Quiz made them think about what they might do in such situations;
■66% said some of the situations in the Quiz were things that they or their friends had faced;
■61% said they’d talk to their friends about the situations described in the Quiz;
■60% said the Quiz made the risks of sex and teen pregnancy seem more real to them;
■57% said they’d encourage others to take the Quiz;
■55% said the Quiz made them think about things they hadn’t thought about before;
■54% said they’d learned something new from the Quiz about the consequences of sex; and
■42% said they’d talk to their parents or other adults about the situations described in the Quiz.


National Day Partnerships
National Day partners are critical to the success of the National Day. Each year, hundreds of national-level organizations team up with the National Campaign to promote the National Day to their members, affiliates, customers, audiences, and contacts in ways that the National Campaign could never accomplish on its own. See a complete list of last year's National Day partners.

To become an official National Day partner, please complete the National Day Partnership Request from on the following page. Thank you so much for your interest in the 2011 National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy!