| Our Mission:
The mission of EyesOpenIowa is to support Iowa communities in ensuring the sexual health of all adolescents through advocacy, education, and collaboration. Annual Report 2010-11: EyesOpenIowa works closely with community-based grantees of the Community Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (CAPP) Grant Program, funded by the Iowa Department of Human Services. This work ensures accountability for the effective use of state dollars through compliance with the science-based service requirements of the grant program. Our 2010-2011 annual report highlights our work with the CAPP community and beyond. Meet the Staff: Kristin Fairholm Julie Stone Katie Dale |
Commitment to Excellence: EyesOpenIowa invites all providers of sexual health education in Iowa to voluntarily commit to the following ACCURACY Sexual health education will be factual, medically accurate, and informed by the weight of available peer-reviewed research. ACCOUNTABILITY Providers will voluntarily adhere to a basic set of science-based standards and be willing to accept a periodic peer review of practices and program content. AFFIRMATION Sexual health education will affirm sexuality as a natural lifelong quality of being human which can be expressed in healthy, responsible ways. ADVOCACY
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Recent News
NEW State & County Adolescent Sexual Health Fact Sheets
A first-of-its-kind statewide adolescent sexual health fact sheet is now available. Reporting on more than the negative sexual health outcomes commonly associated with teens, EyesOpenIowa’s new state fact sheet employs a holistic view of adolescent sexual health. The fact sheet reports key indicators that impact upon sexual development as well as more typical indicators of sexual [...]
2009 Iowa Teen Birth Statistics by County Released
The Center for Health Statistics at the Iowa Department of Human Services has released 2009 data on teen births in the state of Iowa. In 2009, there were 3448 births to teen mothers. Of these births, 56%, or 1948, were to mothers age 13-18. The remaining 1500 teen births were to 19 year olds. Louisa [...]
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