Jana's Reflection on Pregnancy Prevention Workshop at Bell

I really enjoyed the topic of Pregnancy Prevention. It was a bit difficult for Katy and I to narrow down our scope of discussion about Pregnancy Prevention because we were not sure if the number one priority should be on contraceptive use, the cost of a child, accept that people already have children, etc.

We were able to gather GREAT information from sites like:

http://www.teenwire.com/

(check them out! they just literally updated their site a couple days ago)
http://www.stayteen.org/
http://www.sexetc.org/

We were able to talk to quite a few of our Latino friends who are in the School of Public Health who gave us great insight about the best ways to approach the topic. We also looked at best practices through the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancies. With May 6th being the National Day to prevent Teen Pregnancies it was a perfect time to find up-to-date resources.

A day or two before presenting our workshop at Bell we learned that we might not have the opportunity to use the Internet to show a video that we picked out to show the youth. We did our best to try and download the movie however nothing worked to be able to access the movie. We were pretty bummed because we are pretty sure the youth would have really liked it! (but here it is for everyone else!- ha ha I can't embed it because it is "not suitable for minors" and this blog won't allow it)

During the workshop we learned that the youth were fairly knowledgeable about most of the types of birth control. They were not however familiar with Emergency Contraception. Because it took so long going through all the forms of birth control we were not able to get to the fun activity that I was going to lead. I was also pretty sad about that. :(

It seemed however from the evaluations that we did ok. The kids liked the condom packs that I put together with information that I put together about where they could gain access to birth control in their area as well as the websites that I listed above. I really enjoyed the experience and I wished that we had had more time and the appropriate resources for the workshop.

All in all I think that we did the best we could with the limitations we had- which is how it is!
Thanks again to the students at Bell for having us in your class!