{"id":40416,"date":"2001-06-21T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-06-21T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/commendable-effort-to-reduce-teen-pregnancies\/"},"modified":"2001-06-21T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-06-21T01:43:56","slug":"commendable-effort-to-reduce-teen-pregnancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/06\/21\/commendable-effort-to-reduce-teen-pregnancies\/","title":{"rendered":"Commendable effort to reduce teen pregnancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A project to prevent teenage pregnancies is being implemented by the non-governmental agency Pro Joven Dominicano in the province of Bahoruco. The plan, which is getting assistance from a municipality in Spain, hopes to reach out to 12,000 area residents, aged 10-24 years, in its first year. Municipal Youth Councils will train 300 teenagers who in turn will serve as program promoters. The two year program seeks to reach out to a total of 20,550 youths in the area using a RD$2.4 million investment. Some 60 high school professors will also receive training to counsel public school students on the perils of teen pregnancy and contracting AIDS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A project to prevent teenage pregnancies is being implemented by the non-governmental agency Pro Joven Dominicano in the province of Bahoruco. The plan, which is getting assistance from a municipality in Spain, hopes to reach out to 12,000 area residents, aged 10-24 years, in its first year. Municipal Youth Councils will train 300 teenagers who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/06\/21\/commendable-effort-to-reduce-teen-pregnancies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}