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Article: `Tell Me About It': A community-based project to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy in Wagga Wagga. (Pprograms and Practice).
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- Youth Studies Australia
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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In the final year of their occupational therapy degree course, Jacinta Makin and Susan Butler collaborated with local agencies to conduct a 10-week project aimed at addressing the high rate of teen pregnancy in the Wagga Wagga district of New South Wales.
AS part of the requirements of the undergraduate occupational therapy degree at the University of South Australia, final-year students are required to carry out a community-oriented project in collaboration with an agency to address an identified need or issue. The authors collaborated with the Adolescent Pregnancy Support Midwife at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital and Anglicare-Bungarimbil to conduct a 10-week ...