STAR Events Digital Stories for Action Jan 2011 Black, White, and a Whole Lot of Gray Amanda Mitchell 1 Scene 1Scene 2Scene 3 Image Title Slide Image Ally avatar with heart background- Designed by Alexandria Image Ally avatar and Taylor avatar- Designed by Alexandria Script Abstinence Is it worth it? Script Hey guys! My name is Ally. My friend Taylor and I are going to tell you about abstinence. Script We’re going to tell you how abstinence can help you, your community… And your government!! Music/Sounds AbodyBeatz, “No Way” Hip Hop Instrumental Music/Sounds Blur through blackBowtie-verticalBlur Is It Worth It? By Ally Lucas and Taylor Lucas

STAR Events Digital Stories for Action Jan 2011 Black, White, and a Whole Lot of Gray Amanda Mitchell 2 Scene 4Scene 5Scene 6 Image Ally avatar with polka dot background- Designed by Alexandria Image Ally avatar with polka dot background- Designed by Alexandria Image Ally avatar with polka dot background- Designed by Alexandria Script I bet you’re like, “But Ally, what the heckie is abstinence?!” Script Well, simply put, abstinence means to refrain from sexual activity. Typically until marriage. Script Welp. Let’s get to the facts. Music/Sounds AbodyBeatz, “No Way” Hip Hop Instrumental Music/Sounds Is It Worth It? By Ally Lucas and Taylor Lucas Music/Sounds DissolveDiagonal down-rightFilled V left

STAR Events Digital Stories for Action Jan 2011 Black, White, and a Whole Lot of Gray Amanda Mitchell 3 Scene 7Scene 8Scene 9 Image Ally avatar with swirly background- Designed by Alexandria Image Taylor avatar with polka dot background- Designed by Alexandria Image Taylor avatar with polka dot background- Designed by Alexandria Script Did you know that adolescents, ages ranging from 15 to 24, account for almost half of the 20 million new cases of STDs each year. Script Also, 4 out of 10 teen girls that are sexually active have had a STD that could result in death or infertility. Script And out of all the teens, ages 13 to 19 diagnosed with HIV, males make up two-thirds of those cases. Music/Sounds AbodyBeatz, “No Way” Hip Hop Instrumental Music/Sounds Diagonal-box outBowtie-verticalCinematic-blur Is It Worth It? By Ally Lucas and Taylor Lucas

STAR Events Digital Stories for Action Jan 2011 Black, White, and a Whole Lot of Gray Amanda Mitchell 4 Scene 10Scene 11Scene 12 Image Ally avatar with polka dot background- Designed by Alexandria Image Ally avatar with polka dot background- Designed by Alexandria Image Ally avatar- Designed by Alexandria Script 305,420 babies were born to teen girls, ages ranging from 15-19, in the year % of these births were to unmarried girls. Script In 2011, in a survey taken by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 33% of 9 th graders have had sex before and 21% were currently sexually active. Script Remember when we said it affects the government? Well, 34% of teen mothers never get a GED or Diploma. Over an entire lifetime, a person who’s graduated college will make more than a high school dropout. Also, over an entire lifetime, a person who’s dropped out will cost the country approximately a quarter of a million only from lost earnings, taxes, and productivity. Music/Sounds AbodyBeatz, “No Way” Hip Hop Instrumental Music/Sounds Is It Worth It? By Ally Lucas and Taylor Lucas Music/Sounds PixelateRollBlur

STAR Events Digital Stories for Action Jan 2011 Black, White, and a Whole Lot of Gray Amanda Mitchell 5 Scene 13Scene 14Scene 15 Image Ally avatar- Designed by Allexandria Image Ally avatar- Designed by Alexandria Image Taylor avatar with polka dot background- Designed by Alexandria Script Teen childbearing cost the government a minimum of $10.9 billion in 2008 alone. Man…That’s a lot of money. If all the students who dropped out in just the class of 2011 had graduated instead, it’s estimated their income alone would boost the nations economy in additional income by $154 billion in the span of their lifetimes. 63% of teen mothers receive public benefits within the first year of parenthood Script Less then 2% of women who have babies before age 18 finish college by age 30. And almost 25% of Americans don’t graduate with their class. Approximately 250,000 teen pregnancies each year, makes America #1 in teen pregnancies out of the developed the developed world. Crazy, right? 41% of teen mothers within a year of their child’s birth will be in poverty and 50%of teen mothers will be living in poverty by the time their child turns three. Script 67% of teen mothers who moved out of their family’s household live in poverty, and 63% of teen mothers receive public benefits within the first year of parenthood. Studies show that children born to teen moms tend to be significantly less prepared to do well in school. Music/Sounds AbodyBeatz, “No Way” Hip Hop Instrumental Music/Sounds Is It Worth It? By Ally Lucas and Taylor Lucas Music/Sounds Shatter top-rightCirclesDissolve rough

STAR Events Digital Stories for Action Jan 2011 Black, White, and a Whole Lot of Gray Amanda Mitchell 6 Scene 16Scene 17Scene 18 Image Taylor avatar with polka dot background- Designed by Alexandria Image Taylor avatar shocked with EKG background- Designed by Alexandria Image Ally avatar with polka dot background- Designed by Alexandria Script We took a recent survey with our FCCLA club about abstinence. Asking the questions: What does abstinence mean to you? How many people do you think practice abstinence? Do you know anyone who has an unwanted pregnancy or contracted an STD? We found that: -55% don’t know what abstinence means -25% only know people who’ve had unwanted pregnancies -5% only know people who’ve contracted STDs -65% know people who’ve had unwanted pregnancies and contracted STDs -57% know no people who practice abstinence (of the people who knew what abstinence meant) Script Wow! That’s scary! Script That is precisely why this topic needed to be addressed. How can we expect teens to make healthy choices when they don’t know what abstinence means?! Music/Sounds AbodyBeatz, “No Way” Hip Hop Instrumental Music/Sounds Is It Worth It? By Ally Lucas and Taylor Lucas Music/Sounds Bowtie-horizontalDiagonal-crossoutFilled V left

STAR Events Digital Stories for Action Jan 2011 Black, White, and a Whole Lot of Gray Amanda Mitchell 7 Scene 10Scene 11 Image Bibliography Image Closing page Script United States. Office of Adolescent Health. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Maryland: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Web.. "Sexually Experienced by Grade." The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, n.d. Web. 26 Jan "Sexually Active by Grade." The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, n.d. Web. 26 Jan Chung, Saras. "New Study Links Teen Pregnancy and Dropout, Spotlights Solutions." WYMAN. N.p., 20 Jun Web. 28 Jan pregnancy-and-dropout-spotlights-solutions/?gclid=CI3Mzo2M8rsCFUtp7AodPgwAfQ Shuger, L. (2012). Teen Pregnancy and High School Dropout: What Communities are Doing to Address These Issues. Washington, DC: The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and America’s Promise Alliance.. Events/News-and-Features/2012-News/June/~/media/Files/Resources/teen-pregnancy-and-hs-dropout- print.ashx Stewart NG, Alison, and Kelleen Kaye. "Teen Childbearing, Education, and Economical Wellbeing." Why it Matters. CentersforDiseaseControlandPrevention, n.d. Web. 28 Jan Creative Commons -No Way - Deep Hip Hop Instrumental Beat |Cubase| by AbodyBeatz. Cubase, Web. 30 Jan Is it worth it? By Alexandria Lucas & Taylor Lucas is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License Script Abstinence You are worth the wait? Is It Worth It? By Ally Lucas and Taylor Lucas circle