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FROM: Supervisor Nancy C. Fanden Contra
April 28, 1987 For Consideration on Costa
DATE: May 5, 1987 County
SUBJECT: TEENAGE PREGNANCY CONFERENCE / ACR 52
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMUMATION:
That in recognition of a growing national problem, teenage
pregnancy, the Board of Supervisors support Assembly
Concurrent Resolution No. 52 - Relative to a Teenage
Pregnancy Conference. Such Conference to be held in
Sacramento on January 28 and 29, 1988.
That I be delegated as the representative of the Board of
Supervisors of Contra Costa County at the statewide Teenage
Pregnancy Conference.
That representatives from health, education and social
services programs be invited to facilitate Contra Costa
County' s identification of those policies, programs, and
services that are most needed to address teenage pregnancy
and parenting. This would include the areas of pregnancy
prevention, health care for teenage parents and their
children, and education and economic independence of the
young parents.
BACKGROUND:
In the United States more than one million teenage girls
become pregnant each year, and four out of five are
unmarried.
Eighty percent of teenage mothers and 45 percent of teenage
fathers drop out of high school, and 60 percent of teenage
mothers receive public assistance.
The economic loss to society having a substantially
unproductive, uneducated portion of the population is
immense.
Some of the organizations who will be participating in the
statewide conference are State Department of Education,
State Department of Health Services, California State
Parent-Teachers Association, Junior Leagues ,of California,
March of Dimes and American Association of University Women.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT-- YES SIGNATURE:
- RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
-APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON May 5. 1987 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT i I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THISAS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: Supervisor Fanden ATTESTED
County Administrator I Phil Batche'For, Clerk of the Bond d-
Health Services Director Supervisors and County Aftn4balm
Social Services Director
Superintendent of Schools
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