teen pregnancy

An Alabama agency is seeking proposals from youth-serving community organizations that focus on those aged 12 through 15. The request from the Alabama Department of Public Health comes to secure funding to help provide evidence-based programs to adolescents, including sexual risk avoidance.

Community youth organizations still have time to submit their applications to the Alabama Department of Public Health for federal funding. ADPH is soliciting requests for proposals (RFPs) from education programs providing evidence-based information on the risks associated with unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to Alabama youth aged 10 to 19. These applications are due by August 4 at 3 p.m. Central Time.

The Alabama Department of Public Health has announced the state's teen birth rate has reached a historic low. Officials say the teen birth rate in 2011…