Welcome to the official Freedom 180 Website!
Freedom 180, the Abstinence Education Project of the Bay County Health Department, was established in 2001. It is currently funded by the Bay County Health Department and the State of Florida. Our program promotes healthy lifestyle choices for youth. We encourage positive youth development through STD and pregnancy prevention, goal setting, healthy relationships and abstinence from sex, drugs, and alcohol. The project assists the Florida Department of Health in its effort to reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases in youth.
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Visit WMBB's report on Teen Pregnancy Rates in Bay County:
http://www.panhandleparade.com … _decrease/
STATISTIC OF THE WEEK:
Early sexual activity and multiple lifetime sexual partners are associated with a host of negative lifetime outcomes for women, including increased risk of STDs, out-of-wedlock births, abortion, single parenthood, maternal and child poverty, marital instability, and depression.
Rector, Robert, et.al., "The Harmful Effects of Early Sexual Activity and Multiple Sexual Partners Among Women," The Heritage Foundation, June 2003
(taken from Family North Carolina Magazine- July/August 2009)