Christiana Care Health System's Community-based Women's and Children's Health Services works with agencies throughout the community to offer programs to help reduce the health risks of women, infants and children.

Services include:

• Prevention services for diseases that mainly affect women.
• Combating infant mortality and preventable health problems among children and youth.
• Adolescent pregnancy prevention programs and comprehensive maternity services for pregnant adolescents.
• Treatment programs to enhance the physical and emotional growth and development of infants and children.
• Educational programs that teach ways to recognize and prevent abuse and personal injuries to women and children, and address a range of other adolescent and women's health issues.
• Support groups for women and children with chronic illnesses.

Programs of Community-based Women's and Children's Health Services include:

Alliance for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention:
The Alliance for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (AAPP) was established in 1995, at the recommendation of the Governor's task force on teen pregnancy in Delaware. AAPP is helping to reduce the number of adolescents in Delaware who are sexually active, become pregnant or become teen parents.

AAPP:

• Promotes education and awareness of adolescent pregnancy prevention efforts in Delaware.
• Mobilizes public and private agencies, organizations and individuals in support of adolescent pregnancy prevention.
• Coordinates leadership efforts statewide.
• Builds consensus to address problems at both state and local levels.
• Broadens access to family planning services.
• Encourages parent-child communication.

For more information, call 302-428-6363.

Data and strategies to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases in teens

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