New Social Marketing Campaign emphasizes healthier birth outcomes The City of Milwaukee Health Department and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Zilber School of Public Health, along with Serve Marketing and Jump at the Sun Consulting, launched the Women 2 Women for Healthy Babies Project last Wednesday at United Way of Greater Milwaukee’s annual Women’s Leadership Luncheon. [...]

Amongst the glitter and glam of prom, teen girls will come across an eye-opening reality Teen girls shopping for prom dresses will see something a little different in stores this spring. While searching for the perfect dress, these girls will be stunned as three dress shops in the Milwaukee area will be displaying a prom [...]

Latest marketing tactic aims to impress upon teens the high cost of having a baby Students at two Milwaukee high schools saw something a little different when they visited the vending machines last week. Among the soft drinks and snacks will be a vending machine filled with baby products, a tactic designed to grab their [...]

Teen childbearing in Wisconsin cost taxpayers at least $168 million in 2008, according to an updated analysis from The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Of these costs, 33 percent were federal costs and 67 percent were state and local costs. For the nation overall, teen childbearing costs taxpayers $10.9 billion. Most of [...]

By Teri Huyck, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin One of the things I love most about working at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is that each day brings something new. Planned Parenthood is at once a neighborhood health care provider, a community resource and public policy advocate, so I can never quite predict [...]

Conventional wisdom says to stay offline when trying to reach central city young adults and teens. Last Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010, this wisdom was challenged when up to 200 men participated in “tell it straight” and recorded their positive “Get at You” videos and shared them on Facebook with the goal of reaching between 100,000 [...]

Teen pregnancy prevention, health and family communication emphasized Wisconsin will receive $4.7 million over five years to prevent unintended teen pregnancy along with reduce the youth cases of STD and HIV/AIDS according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS). Grantfunded programs will also help young people improve communication with parents, maintain healthy relationships and [...]