People throughout the​ Department of Human Services are sharing resources and working together to reduce teen pregnancy.

Here are some highlights:

Prevention programs

• In offices in larger communities, workers are assigned to teen parent caseloads. Multnomah County efforts include weekly visits with first-time moms, part of a national research project.
  
  
• Contact: Belit Burke - 503-947-5389, email: belit.burke@state.or.us
   
  
• My Future-My Choice, a comprehensive sexual health education program for sixth and seventh grade students.
   
  Contact: Sandra Harms - 503-945-6134, email: sharms@state.or.us 

Public health

• Funding of family planning services at more than 90 clinics in all 36 counties, with priority for low-income populations (below 185% of poverty) and teens.
  
  Contact: Rian Frachele 971-673-0364, email: rian.frachele@state.or.us

• The Oregon Healthy Teens Survey, conducted with the Oregon Department of Education, which gathers data on a wide range of youths' risky behaviors.
   
  Contact: Renee Boyd 971-673-1145, e-mail: renee.k.boyd@state.or.us

• A full-time adolescent pregnancy prevention coordinator.
   
  Contact: Jessica Duke 971-673-0242, e-mail: jessica.duke@state.or.us

Mental health

• The Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services provides some service through county mental health systems, contracts with Oregon Health Plan providers, mental health organizations and select other contractors.
   
  Contact: 503-945-5763

Office of Medical Assistance Programs

• Family planning services are a covered service in the Oregon Health Plan

Child welfare

• Foster parents and case workers address family planning, sexuality and contraception as appropriate with teens and parents.
   
  
• Curriculum in the office's Independent Living Program, for youth becoming emancipated, includes family planning, sexuality, esteem-building.