Milwaukee’s three-pronged strategy to reduce teen pregnancy: An interview with Bevan Baker, Commissioner of Health, City of Milwaukee, and Nicole Angresano, United Way of Greater Milwaukee – Episode #118

Milwaukee’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, launched in 2008, is a citywide effort led by the United Way (thenationalcampaign.org/sites/default/files/re…) of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County. It has been recognized as a model of community collaboration, including by the White House Council for Community Solutions.

The three main prongs of the strategy are:

• An aggressive advertising campaign (medialiteracyproject.org/deconstructions/pregn…) targeted to teens

• The use of evidence-based sex education (thenationalcampaign.org/sites/default/files/re…)

• The involvement of community partners to support the strategy

The initiative set a goal in 2008 to reduce Milwaukee’s teen births by 46% over 10 years. It exceeded that goal, three years early, with a 50% decline (jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/milwaukee-teen-pre…) in teen births by 2012. During the same period, national teen birthrates also declined sharply, although Milwaukee’s decline slightly outpaced the national average. More broadly, the initiative is a leading example of an “all-hands-on-deck” community partnership focused on a key community challenge.

To learn more, we’re joined by two people who have been at the center of the initiative. Bevan Baker (city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/healthA…) has been the Commissioner of Health in Milwaukee since 2004. And Nicole Angresano (unitedwaygmwc.org/Leadership-Team) is the Vice President of Community Impact at the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County.

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