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Hundreds of thousands of teens nationwide are expected to participate in the seventh annual National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy on May 4,2011.The purpose of the National Day is to focus the attention of teens on the importance of avoiding too-early pregnancy and parenthood. On the National Day, teens nationwide are asked to go to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy's new teen website -- www.stayteen.org -- and take a short, scenario-based "quiz" that asks young people what they would do in a number of sexual situations.  The ROHS PTSA wishes to help make sure that the 2007 National Day is a success.

Organized by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, the National Day has widespread support. More than 230 national organizations and media outlets serve as official National Day partners by promoting the online quiz.

The message of the National Day is straightforward: Sex has consequences. The online quiz (available in English and Spanish) delivers this message directly to teens and challenges them to think carefully about what they might do “in the moment.”

Last year, more than 350,000 individuals took the online National Day Quiz. survey of the some of the teens that participated in the 2006 National Day indicates:

• · 83% said the Quiz made them think about what they might do in such situations;
• · 62% said they’d talk to their friends about the situations described in the Quiz;
• · 63% said they’d learned something new from the Quiz about the consequences of sex; and
• · 73% said the Quiz made the risks of sex and teen pregnancy seem more real to them.
• There will also be a PARENT DISCUSSION GUIDE available. This can be one of many possible moments to engage and re-engage conversations between parents and their teenagers.
• For ideas on how you can help promote the National Day, please visit www.TheNationalCampaign.org/national. Or contact your ROHS PTSA Health & Welfare Chair Clemens Wittekind (877) 827-5269 toll free or at ClemensWittekind@gmail.com.