Best Interest

Mayor Marion Barry established, by executive order, the Mayor’s Committee on Reducing Teenage Pregnancies and Out-of-Wedlock Births

Strong Minds, Powerful Connections: Helping Young People Choose a Positive Future was published

DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Incorporated

DC Campaign convened the Child Sex Abuse Prevention Task Force with Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care, Inc., DC Action for Children, Unity Health Care, and Covenant House, to examine the issue and incidence of statutory rape in the District of Columbia

DC Campaign forms Best Practices Coalition with the goal of developing a city-wide strategy that gives young people the skills and motivation they need to prevent problems such as pregnancy, drugs, and violence and to achieve school success, healthy life styles and economic opportunities

DC Campaign publishes The $747 Million Dollar Question, a publication that shows what the District of Columbia spends each year in direct costs associated with teen pregnancy

Not Yet Adults published

An Ounce of Prevention/A Pound of Cure published

DC Campaign establishes Coalition on Men and Boys

Standing in the Gap awarded to Helena Valentine

DC Campaign exceeded its 1999 mission to cut the teen pregnancy rate in half from 152.1 down to 64.4

Facts at Your Fingertips, and easy to read publication of essential teen data was published

Talk is a 4-Letter Word curricula was piloted

Are We There Yet? Was published

Helping Teen Fathers Succeed roundtable

December The More You Know, The More you Can Help a roundtable for frontline school staff

DC Campaign exceeds its initial mission of cutting the teen pregnancy rate in half (64.4)

DC Campaign named “one of the most effective and trustworthy small non-profits in the region” by the Catalogue for Philanthropy

DC City Council adopted Half by 2015 initiative

Conference: Adolescents and Mental Health: A Balancing Act

Conference: Nowhere to Lay My Head

Conference: School Based Health Centers: Graduating to Good Health

DC Campaign becomes the grant-managing entity for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Fund Establishment Act

DC Campaign featured in the Catalogue for Philanthropy

Conference: Promises to Keep: Teen Parents Can Graduate from College

Conference: End the War on Children: Child Sex Abuse Prevention

Conference: Making Medicaid Work for Teens

Conference: End the War on Children: Poverty Takes No Prisoners

Conference: End the War on Children: Safe and Stable Neighborhoods for All

Conference: End the War on Children: Disrupt the School to Prison Pipeline