Jessica Swafford Marcella, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) and director of the Office of Adolescent Health, said Wednesday
As a doctor who practices adolescent medicine, I see the damage that’s done when we demonize pregnant young people instead of giving them the support they desperately need.
The U.S. government gave millions in federal grants to evaluate a popular comprehensive sex education curriculum developed by the county containing Seattle. While evaluators found that the program did not
Policymakers frequently assume that when an intervention was found effective in one setting, the same results can be repeated elsewhere. However, the history of social programs is replete with examples of programs that, while effective in one location, simply failed to work elsewhere. The federal government has a poor record of replicating effective social programs.