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3. Benefits of a Science-Based Approach
Science-based approaches to adolescent reproductive health interventions provide a rationale for a program’s purpose, activities, and its impact on youth. This approach provides program administrators and youth-serving professionals the opportunity to [15]:- Combine effective pregnancy, STI, and HIV prevention interventions with youth development strategies.
- Clearly identify the impact of its programs, activities, and efforts.
- Ensure that resources expended are worth the cost of producing a program.
- Meet funding requirements.
- Provide evidence to funders showing that the program is on target to achieve specified goals.
- Increase opportunities for success in producing a positive and measurable impact on teen sexual behaviors.
- Refine programs, promote successes, and avoid negative outcomes.
- Collaborate with other related organizations to increase resources available to teens.
- Contribute valuable lessons to the field of adolescent pregnancy and/or STI/HIV prevention.
- Increase a program’s capacity to sustain and replicate program activities.
