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>> My name is Tiffany Thompson, and I am
the program manager for I Matter Philly,

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a teen pregnancy prevention initiative
out of Family Planning Council.

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So I'm a program manager for I Matter Philly,
a teen pregnancy prevention initiative.

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And we're one of nine organizations to
receive funding from the CDC and the Office

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of Adolescent Health in addition
to President Obama.

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It's his one of nine winnable battles.

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And we're geared to decrease teen pregnancy by
ten percent in west and southwest Philadelphia

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because west and southwest Philadelphia's
teen pregnancy rates are almost double the

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national rate.

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So I particularly work on the
community mobilization piece.

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So I work with key stakeholders in our city.

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I work with young people.

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We have a youth advisory board, so I run the
young people they're ranging from 14 to 19,

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and they kind of do a lot of events and
community engagement within their city

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and help young people really get more
involved with teen pregnancy prevention.

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And then I run our two other boards
which is comprised of key stakeholders

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of our core partners group which is our board
of directors and then our community action team

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which is our on the ground
grass root kind of leaders.

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And then also in terms of what
the entire project does is, one,

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we work with clinical partners to make
sure that they're more teen friendly

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and that they're giving teens access
to clinical care and making sure

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that they have access to
all types of contraception.

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And then we also do EBIs which
is evidence based interventions.

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So we work with schools, churches,
community based organizations to train

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and help them facilitate
evidence based curriculum.

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And these evidence based curriculums they have
been proven to reduce teens' initiation of sex.

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What tends to happen is young men
get lost in this conversation.

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So we're actually this year working
on a young men's project particularly

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on teen pregnancy prevention to figure
out why young men don't really see

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that teen pregnancy prevention is their issue.

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And, two, how we can get them
to also access clinical care,

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what makes them really want to do that.

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So we're happy that we have
a lot of young people

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in our youth advisory board,
especially young men.

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So we've been really good with that piece so.